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NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ — Britain’s hottest newcomers White Lies will launch an assault on America, hitting the road with Kings of Leon for a fall tour that begins in Minneapolis on September 28th and continues through mid-October.

Fresh off a European support tour with Coldplay, The West London-based band, who have been nominated for a 2009 MOJO Award for “Best Breakthrough Artist,” will also make the rounds of all the major summer festivals, including Rock Am Ring on June 6th, Isle of Wight on June 13th, Glastonbury on June 26th, 27th, and 28th, Werchter on July 3rd, Roskilde on July 5th, T in the Park on July 11th, Oxygen on July 12th, Fuji on July 24th, Benicassim on July 19th, V Fest on August 9th, Leeds on August 28th, and Reading on August 29th. In the U.S., the band will appear at Lollapalooza on August 7th and at the Austin City Limits Festival on October 4th. They will also perform two headlining shows, including one at New York City’s Webster Hall on September 25th. Please see below for details.

White Lies, (vocalist/guitarist Harry McVeigh, bassist Charles Cave, and drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown) are touring in support of their debut album To Lose My Life, which entered the UK album chart at No. 1 in January, making the band the first act in 2009 to do so. White Lies have received glowing reviews from such UK tastemakers as NME (“The Dark Music never sounded so luminous”), The Fly (“everything about White Lies is tight, ambitious, and deliciously dark”), The Sunday Times (“the best 1980s synth sounds since, well, the 1980s”), and The Guardian (“the sound of archly constructed doom being wrung dry”) thanks to To Lose My Life and a handful of buzz singles, such as “Unfinished Business,” “Death,” “Farewell to the Fairground,” and the album’s title track. To Lose My Life was released in the U.S. by Geffen Records on March 17th, 2009, and is currently available for purchase on iTunes.

U.S. TOUR DATES Solo tickets here Kings of Leon tickets here

(All dates are supporting Kings of Leon except where noted.)

8/07 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
8/09 Calgary, ALB V Festival
9/25 New York, NY Webster Hall (Headline Show)
9/26 Toronto, ONT Phoenix Theatre (Headline Show)
9/28 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
9/30 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center
10/03 Oklahoma City OK Ford Center
10/04 Austin TX Austin City Limits Festival
10/06 Houston, TX Toyota Center
10/07 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
10/09 Atlanta, GA Phillips Arena
10/10 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena
10/13 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
10/16 Nashville, TN Sommet Center

SOURCE Interscope Records

Tickets are available here

The scheduled dates are below:

Tue, Jan. 20th, 2009 07:30 PM Louisville Palace (Louisville, KY)

Wed, Jan. 21st, 2009 08:00 PM Murat Theatre (Indianapolis, IN)

Fri, Jan. 23rd, 2009 08:00 PM Uptown Theater – MO (Kansas City, MO)

Sat, Jan. 24th, 2009 06:00 PM House Of Blues IL (Chicago, IL)

Mon, Jan. 26th, 2009 07:30 PM MSU Auditorium (East Lansing, MI)

Tue, Jan. 27th, 2009 07:00 PM Lifestyle Communities Pavilion- Promowest (Columbus, OH)

Thu, Jan. 29th, 2009 08:00 PM Madison Square Garden (New York, NY)

Fri, Feb. 20th, 2009 08:00 PM Olympia Hall (Paris, France)

Kings of Leon are a Grammy-nominated rock band from Columbia, Tennessee. The band is made up of three brothers – Caleb Followill (lead singer/rhythm guitar), Nathan Followill (drums/backup vocals), Jared Followill (bass guitar/backup vocals/synthesizer) – and their first cousin Matthew Followill (lead guitar/backup vocals). The band’s sound derives from southern rock, garage rock, hard rock and blues. They have released four full-length albums. The group’s name is derived from Nathan, Caleb and Jared’s father and grandfather, both named Leon.  In terms of chart positions the band has been far more popular in Europe (notably the UK & Ireland) than their homeland.

Their most recent album is Only by the Night was released September 23, 2008.  The Amazon.com review for this album says "Only by the Night may be the closest thing to a pitch-perfect album to drop in 2008".  The the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 1, with sales of over 220,000 copies.

In early 2009 Kings of Leon will return to Australia and New Zealand for headlining shows in support of Only By The Night. Large arena tours will be held in the Australian cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Perth; as well as the New Zealand cities of Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.