The Kooks
Konk

The problem with The Kooks isn’t that the songs they write are fantastically terrible or that their lyrics make them sound like a gaggle of gormless,...

Luke Pritchard has gone on record saying that Konk is his band's "pop album," and initially, I thought he was just talking a gang of shit. Musically,...

What's wrong with the guitar youth of today The Kooks recently revealed that the band very nearly split when bassist Max Rafferty fell ill last year....

The Kooks couldn't have chosen a more ironic band name if they tried. There's a long, venerable tradition of harmless British eccentrics—amateur stamp...

In the often rather snobbish world of indie music, there's always been a degree of suspicion about The Kooks. Whether it be legitimate concerns (they ...

The Kooks aren't exactly redefining the sound of British pop/rock on their sophomore album, but they certainly aren't giving it a bad name either. The...

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They have lost their bass player, but with their second album the Kooks have found their feet. It takes its name from the studio where it was recorded...

For anyone who still believes that indie-rock is counter-cultural, the Kooks must be the stuff of nightmares. Here, after all, is a band who have app...

Speaking to The Times last month, the Brit School’s most successful export, Leona Lewis, confided a fond memory of an impromptu little show she once ...