Louis XIV: "We Felt Cheated"

Louis XIV: "We Felt Cheated"

Louis XIV jumps from country twang to sexy glam-rock band: Aidin Vaziri | Since signing to Atlantic six months ago, Louis XIV has been declared an artist to watch by Rolling Stone, profiled by MTV and seen its music proliferate on television teen dramas like "One Tree Hill" and "The O.C." The latter considered "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" perfect scene-setting music for a teenage lesbian make-out session between two of its main characters. Not that it impressed singer Jason Hill much. "We sat through an hour of this show to hear our music in the background for a minute," he sniffs. "We felt cheated. I could care less." Two years ago, Hill, guitarist Brian Karscig and drummer Mark Maigaard were playing in a fairly well-regarded Southern California alt-country band called Convoy. The dramatic shift in sound and style -- out went the Western shirts and Southern twang, in came the mod haircuts and skinny ties -- left some of the former outfit's fans damning them as a bunch of bandwagon jumpers. But it's pretty obvious why they changed course: Wilco plays for bespectacled grad students, while the Killers play for cocaine-addled supermodels. "It's not that crazy," Hill reasons.