Author Peter Lapre

Built to Spill brought their finely tuned electric stage-show to Toad's Place on Sunday. Hailing from Idaho, the band released some of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the past decade, namely "Perfect From Now On" and "Keep it Like a Secret," under Warner Bros records, after playing on some underground indie labels.

Kings of Leon, a young act hailing from Tennessee, performed at Toad's Place on Tuesday, Sept. 27. They find themselves in New Haven on their prolonged tour in promotion of their second album, "Aha Shake Heartbreak." The southern rockers recently arrived back from a highly successful British leg of the tour and are in the midst of duplicating that success stateside.