“ They’re plodding, focus-group-friendly nonentities. Like their spiritual predecessors, Soul Asylum and Engelbert Humperdinck, they’re of no consequence whatsoever: lite-rock for a demographic too young for Counting Crows and too supposedly-hip for Nickelback. The best-case scenario for them is that if they stick around for 20 years they’ll acquire that veneer of Mellencampian gravitas invariably bestowed upon mediocrities who refuse to go away and stop bothering people. (Rolling Stone, March 2043: “As the group prepares for its 40th anniversary ‘Age and Old Manhood’ tour—Caleb Followill reveals the secret of the Kings’ longevity: ‘We’re survivors.’”)
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