New Music Recommendation:
Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
This is the third album by Kings Of Leon. The band is made up of three brothers and their cousin. They have a very unique sound that I would describe as upbeat, indie/jam rock with a bit of a southern twist. Their first two albums (which are also both awesome imo) received moderate critical acclaim scoring 79 and 73, respectively, on metacritic.com. So far this one is doing even better sitting at 82/100 (#9 overall so far this year).
I know Pitchfork gave their first two albums pretty bad scores, but I think they really missed the mark both times (which seems pretty common for them, even if they rarely make the opposite mistake).
From what I've seen (on TV sadly) these guys also put on a really good live show.
You can check out the first single "On Call" on their
myspace page. "On Call" is a lot slower then most of their music though, so to get a better idea of what they sound like you might check out some of the older songs on their myspace page like "The Bucket" or "Four Kicks."
This is really fun music... they have had a number of songs used on Entourage!