Kings Of Leon added to their huge year with three American Music Award nominations on Tuesday (October 13th), for Artist of the Year, Favorite Band, Duo or Group, and Favorite Alternative Artist, in addition to being up for the T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist prize. The nominations come on the heels of the band's fourth album, Only By The Night, becoming their first million-seller, while the singles "Sex On Fire" and "Use Somebody" have broken out across multiple radio formats.
The debut album from Dead By Sunrise, called Out Of Ashes, features some of the most personal lyrics ever written by singer Chester Bennington. A number of the songs were inspired by Bennington's struggles with his own psychological demons as well as drugs and alcohol. Bennington told us that his addiction to alcohol reached its peak after a divorce from his first wife left him emotionally and financially drained: ["I lived on alcohol. It was either beer, or Jack and Coke, or Jack Daniels in a pint glass with ice. And then it got to the point where my wife said to me about seven months after we got together, she goes, 'I don't think there's been a day since I've known you that you haven't drank.' And I was like, 'What are you talking about? That's crazy' -- as I'm drinking a Jack and Coke. That was where my life went."]
British rockers Muse have gotten a thumbs-up for their new album The Resistance from Queen guitarist Brian May, who called the record "great stuff." According to NME.com, May told the BBC, "I think they're very good boys and extremely talented, and like us they have their tongue in cheek a lot of the time." The irony of May's endorsement is that some critics have taken Muse to task for creating epic songs and bombastic vocal harmonies that recall the legendary U.K. prog-rock act.
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