The Kings of Leon have canceled their complete U.S. tour. In a statement on Monday, the band said, we are very sorry to announce that Kings of Leon has to cancel our whole US tour because Caleb Followill is suffering from exhaustion and vocal issues. We are devastated. However in order to provide our fans with shows they deserve, we need to take a break. The U.S. dates unfortunately can’t be rescheduled because of our international touring schedule.

The Kings of Leon concert in Dallas on Friday ended disastrously and prematurely. Caleb Followill, the band’s lead singer, told the fans he was going to go backstage to vomit, then drink a beer before coming back to play another three songs.

The singer never did return to the stage. Jared Followill, Caleb’s brother and bassist for the band, did apologize to the crowd. He said that Caleb wasn’t fit to perform the remainder of the show. Jared continued, we love you all very much. I know you hate us right now. I am very sorry. It’s Caleb’s fault, not ours. He can’t perform the remainder of the show. We’ll be back just as soon as we can.

Despite the fact that the official announcement cites exhaustion and vocal issues, the Tweets from Jared following the show on Friday suggests the struggles could be deeper.

Jared tweeted on Saturday, Dallas I don’t even know where to begin saying how very sorry I am. There are problems and internal sickness we need to address. I have no words.

I love the fans of ours very much, he added. You aren’t stupid, I know. I can not lie. The problems our band are facing are larger than not having drunk enough Gatorade.

Kings of Leon, after making peace with Ryan Murphy, the creator of “Glee,” are now fulfilling the promise they made to their fans to hit the road once again in support of “Come Around Sundown,” their latest album.

A North American, 29 date outing has been announced by the band. The trek will kick off in Orange Beach, Alabama at the Wharf on July 25 and is currently scheduled to wrap up at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington on September 12.

Band of Horses will be joining them. They are currently touring to support “Infinite Arms,” their top ten album which they released last year.

The new set from Kings of Leon, “Come Around Sundown,” follows their multi-platinum album “Only By the Night.” That set spawned the radio hit singles “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody.” Over 2 million worldwide copies of “Come Around Sundown” have already sold.

Kings of Leon, before they head out for their latest outing, will embark on a tour of Europe starting on May 28 in Ireland at Slane Castle.

The Kings of Leon are postponing their planned tour in March of South Africa and Australia so that Nathan Followill, the band’s drummer, can recover from arm surgery that he had recently.  However three new U.S. shows have been added by the band ahead of their headlining performance at Coachella Festival in Southern California.

The Kings of Leon say that Followill will need three months at least to recover.  He had surgery recently to repair his bicep and torn right labium.  According to a recent press release, the postponed dates are being rescheduled for this October and November.

In a statement that Frontier Touring, the Australian concert promoter released, Followill said sorry to all our South African and Australian fans.  My bum arm needs more time for healing.  We will be back later in the year.

Kings of Leon will be getting back into playing shape before Coachella.  Three new arena shows have been announced.  They will be in Tulsa, OK on April 8, in Memphis, TN on April 9 and in Austin, TX on April 12.  Tickets will be going on sale for all of the three shows on February 12.

Two Kings of Leon tour buses caught fire this morning, December 21, while lodged at the loading area of the O2 Arena in London and while preparations were being undertaken for the band’s performance in the venue supposedly for tonight.  However, due to the incident, the show was canceled and no word yet on when it will be rescheduled.

It was reported that one of the tour buses caught fire first which then spread to the other, causing both vehicles to be completely destroyed.  On the other hand, the seats and other structures being housed at the O2 were not affected one bit, despite its close proximity to the incident.

A statement posted on the band’s official website reads that despite their best efforts, the show would not push through tonight as originally planned and announced.  “Whilst a lot of people have been working very hard and every attempt was made to go ahead with tonight’s show, thorough assessments had to be carried out as a matter of procedure before any decision could be made as to whether the show could go ahead, unfortunately, once the assessments were completed in full, there was not enough time to set up the show for tonight’s performance,” were the words posted on KOL’s site.

It is ironic though that KOL’s new single, “Pyro”, is now a playlist staple in radio and music channel stations in the US and in Europe.  “Pyro” is the second single to come out from the band’s fifth album “Come Around Sundown” and their follow-up to their lead single “Radioactive”.

The show at the O2 Arena should have been the band’s last show for this year.  The band will be taking a long holiday break and will return to the road in March for a short Australian trek and in South Africa for a show in Cape Town and Johannesburg later that month.  Summer of 2011 also shapes to be a busy year for the Followill boys as they will be headlining several festivals in Europe.  Sadly though for their American fans, the band has not unveiled any plans to tour the US in 2011 just yet.

Shortly after releasing their fifth studio effort “Come Around Sundown”, Kings of Leon has just booked a couple of gigs in South Africa to back up the said release.

They are scheduled to perform at the Cape Town Stadium on March 24 and end the two-city South African trek with a show at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on March 27.

Tickets will go public starting on Saturday, December 4 at 9 AM via Computicket.  Ticket prices go from R215 to R590 (or US $31 to US $88).  Ticket prices could have gone steeper if Big Concerts hadn’t negotiated for more reasonable rates.

Kings of Leon is composed of the Followill brothers Nathan, Jared, Matthew and lead vocalist Caleb who all hail from Tennessee.  They struck to mainstream music fame when their single “Use Somebody”, taken from their fourth release “Only by the Night”, topped the charts worldwide.  The album peaked at the fifth spot in the Billboard 200 and has helped them bag four Grammy Awards in 2008.

The rock quartet is currently trekking Europe to support their current work “Come Around Sundown”, which spawned the Grammy Award nominated single “Radioactive”.

Caleb Followill and the rest of Kings of Leon will be looking at a busy 2011 after capping off an equally busy 2010 after appearing in several festival headlining gigs including the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee.

In 2011, they will be sharing headlining duties with rock legends Iron Maiden for the Roskilde festival in Denmark from June 20 to July 3, 2011.  Before embarking on the Danish jaunt, KOL will also be headlining the Isle of Wight festival, also in June 2011.  They are also preparing for a show at the Hyde Park in London with details set to surface at a later date.

It sure is set to be a pumped up 2011 for the band as they will be opening the year with a Grammy Award contention for Best Rock Song for their new single “Radioactive”, which is taken from their current release “Come Around Sundown”.  The band also took home two Grammy Awards last year.

For advanced tickets to the Roskilde festival, log on to the event’s official website.

Seems like the Tennessean rock quartet of Kings of Leon haven’t gotten enough of Australia from last year’s tour that they decided to return to the great south with another set of dates for spring next year.

Armed with a brand spanking new album, “Come Around Sundown”, which hit the shelves late this year, the band is prepping up for a seven-date trek in Australia beginning on March 6, Sunday at the QSAC Stadium in Brisbane followed by a two-nighter at the Acer Arena in Sydney on March 8 and 10.  They are also slated to hit Adelaide on the 13th, Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on the 17th and the 18th, and the NIB Stadium in Perth on the 21st which also serves as the tour’s end point.

Tickets for all dates will be available starting on December 2.  Better get yours right away as tickets for KOL’s last Australian tour sold out rapidly in just a matter of minutes.

On Friday morning 80,000 tickets were sold out in 40 minutes for next May’s Slane Castle concert by Kings of Leon.

Among those managing to purchase the highly coveted tickets costing € 79 apiece were devoted fans who started to line up outside Navan’s The Music Box starting last Thursday at 4 pm in order to make sure they got their tickets for the Slane Castle 30th anniversary gig.

Around 300 people were in line, which stretched across Trimgate Street in Navan from Thursday night to Friday morning.  Andy O’Brien from The Music Box said some of the fans brought food, chairs, tents and even bags to put their trash in.

O’Brien said, we did our very best.  Around 95 percent of the people in line got their tickets.

The Music Box was informed that at around 9 am ticket sales closed.  A majority of those who didn’t get tickets were a few people who showed up at the store on Friday morning after not being able to buy tickets online.

The rock band from the US will be headlining the Slane Castle 30th anniversary gig on May 28.  The band from Tennessee, after the major demand for tickets, announced another Irish gig to be held in Dublin at O2 arena on December 11 of this year.

After the numerous complaints following the event last year when Oasis played in front of 80,000 fans, there will be several modifications made to the site for the concert.

Lord Henry Mountcharles last week stated they would be widening the Dublin entrance and that there would also be modified transportation arrangements that include a brand new emergency exit and different turning areas for buses.

He also said he was quite excited about Kings of Leon performing at the Meath venue.  He is a huge fans on theirs.  In the past two years the group has turned into one of the world’s most popular bands.

“Come Around Sundown,” the critically acclaimed fifth album from Kings of Leon, became their third album in a row to debut in the number one spot when the set topped the UK and Irish albums charts when it was released.

“Come Around Sundown” follows “Only By The Night,” the band’s highly successful album which sold more than six million worldwide copies and won the band four Grammy Awards.

In 1981 Thin Lizzy headlined Slane Castle’s first outdoor gig.  At the first concert U2 was the supporting act.  They were the headliners in 2001 for the event’s 20th anniversary show.

Other big names who have performed at Slane include Bryan Adams, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Stereophonics, The Verve, REM, Neil Young, Guns ‘n’ roses, Queen, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Oasis and The Rolling Stones.

With the release of their much anticipated fourth studio set, “The Incredible Machine” yesterday, Sugarland is poised to take the top spot at the end of this week at the Billboard Hot 200 Albums Chart, if predictions made by industry insiders will pan out.

A projected first week turnaround of 210,000 to 220,000 copies of the said album will propel the country duo to the peak of the charts and by the looks of it, they might be on their way to do so especially that the duo has a history of top selling albums such as their 2008 release “Love On the Inside” and its live version, “Live on the Inside” which was available exclusively at Walmart outlets last year.  Both releases scored high at the charts with the 2009 set debuting at second spot after moving 313,000 copies and eventually peaking at the top after it sold 171,000 more copies the following week.

Closely trailing behind the country duo is rock quartet Kings of Leon with their fifth and newest release “Come Around Sundown”.  Insiders predict a first week sale of around 180,000 to 190,000 copies which could also propel the “Use Somebody” rockers to the top of the charts if Sugarland’s “Incredible Machine” does not do an incredible job at the charts.

“Come Around Sundown” is the band’s follow-up to “Only by the Night” which was released in 2008 and sprung the hits “Use Somebody”, “Revelry” and “Sex on Fire”.  The release debuted at no.5 then reached a peak position of no.4 but only after a year of being in the market when “Use Somebody” became a constant airplay entry among radio and music channels.

Aside from Sugarland and Kings of Leon, Glee’s OST to its “Rocky Horror” tribute episode is also shaping to be a top album contender in the Billboard 200, as well as “Union” by Elton John and Leon Russell, “Sale el Sol” by Colombian hip-shaker Shakira and “Fly Me to the Moon – The Great American Songbook V” by sexagenarian rocker Rod Stewart.

Things are looking good for Tennessee bred rock quartet Kings of Leon this year.  After starting the year with three Grammy Award trophies, one of which was for “Record of the Year” honors, they are also in good shape as they go head to head with other alt-rock contemporaries in the upcoming MTV Europe Music Awards to be held on November 7 in Madrid, Spain.

The band will be vying for the “Best Rock” and “Best Live Act” honors against 30 Seconds to Mars, Muse, Bon Jovi and Linkin Park.  Kings of Leon is also set to perform in the event.  Other acts slated to perform are Kid Rock, Katy Perry, Ke$ha and Linkin Park.

Just like this year’s Video Music Awards which took place in September in Los Angeles, Eminem, who resurfaced in the biz this year with a new album after a long hiatus, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga lead the pack of nominees with four for both female acts and three for the rapper.  Eva Longoria-Parker will be hosting this year’s EMAs.

Kings of Leon also has a new album coming out this fall.  “Come Around Sundown”, their follow-up to their Grammy Award winning release “Only by the Night” which gave birth to tracks like “Use Somebody”, “Revelry”  and “Sex on Fire”, is scheduled to hit the shelves on October 18.  It’s carrier single “Radioactive” has been hitting the airwaves since September 8 and has since then been released as a single in both CD and MP3 formats.