Kings of Leon to ride the "Bull" March 6 at Target Center

The Tennessee rockers are back from a nearly two-year hiatus and will hit the road full-time in February.

October 24, 2013 at 8:18PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Caleb Followill and Kings of Leon headlined the two-weekend Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month. / Jack Plunkett, AP Invision
Caleb Followill and Kings of Leon headlined the two-weekend Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month. / Jack Plunkett, AP Invision (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Once an arena band, always an arena band? Kings of Leon seems to think so. The familial Tennessee rockers will return March 6 to Target Center, the second-to-last date on the first leg of their 2014 U.S. tour announced today. Tickets go on sale Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. via the arena box office, AXS.com, LiveNation.com or call 888-9-AXS-TIX. Prices have not yet to be announced.

After abruptly cancelling their tour in 2011 and taking more than a year off for personal time (but apparently not rehab time), the Followill brothers and cousin Matthew returned with their sixth album, "Mechanical Bull," on Sept. 24. They've played a few club and festival dates around TV appearances since then, but they won't hit the road full-time until their tour kick-off in Atlanta on Feb. 5.

Much like the fair-to-middling response to "Mechanical Bull," KoL's "Bull"-heavy performances at the Austin City Limits Festival earlier this month also earned lukewarm reviews. Still, even when frontman Caleb Followill was fighting a bad cold, their prior Target Center gig in 2009 proved they know how to handle the big rooms.

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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