In this issue
Q 289 Out now: The Hot List featuring Kings of Leon; Kasabian; America's best new bands; Ultimate Festival Q + A; Hollywood Rocks & Brandon Flowers - In The Studio.
+ A free Born in The USA CD
Out June 30, 2010.
Plus, in anticipation of Q's 25th Birthday: Vote online now for the Best 250 Albums of Q's Lifetime and you could win them - Full details.
KINGS OF LEON
"We used to get recognised at home as the queers with the tight pants on." - Caleb Followill
Q289's The Q Interview is with Kings of Leon who are on a victory lap of UK festivals. Caleb and his two brothers looks back on a decade of debauchery. Find out about their drunken brawls, cocaine use and the effect their rise to fame has had on their relationship.
KASABIAN
"Tom sees the world through psychadelic goggles" - Serge Pizzorno
Oasis have gone, the British musical summer is Kasabian's for the taking. Just the one caveat: keep the singer away from the blind... Q spends 7 days with Messrs Meighan and Pizzorno. Includes hapless encounter with blind man.
IN THE STUDIO - BRANDON FLOWERS
"I don't want people to think it's narcissistic" - Brandon Flowers
Q also find out how things are going in the studio with The Killers front-man, Brandon Flowers, as he works on his solo album Flamingo.
ULTIMATE FESTIVAL Q + A
Inside Q289 we reveal the Ultimate Festival Q and A. Over 2000 bands and artists play festivals across the UK alone this summer. We interview 25 of the best to give you the ultimate festival interview. Find out who will be arriving by quad bike or who's dressing room would not be complete without gummi bears and dental floss...
HOT LIST - 50 REASONS WHY THIS SUMMER ROCKS
This month's Hot List gives you 50 reasons why your summer will rock. Arcade Fire - set to return - tell usall about their much anticipated third record. Dave Grohl, the hardest working man in rock tells us what's next for him. Bryan Ferry tells us why he's been dancing with Jeremy Clarkson and Jack Johnson, having just bagged his third no. 1 album, explains his popularity.
HOLLYWOOD ROCKS
Because not all actors are crap rock stars.
While you listen to your Born in the USA cover-mount CD read up on 'The Hollywood Rockers', those who have proven that movie stars and music can mix. Forget about the aural horrors inflicted by the likes of Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe and Bruce Willis, instead we've got Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon to name just two.
A ROUND WITH... DIDDY
“I'm in discussions to go to Sheffield. Sheffield, stand up! it sounds like New York.”
Share a round with the newly named Diddy, the artist formerly known as Puffy and P Diddy. He will tell you how to make your "pee-pee" harder and just possibly improve your sex life while he's at it, whilst telling us more about his new group Dirty Money.
LIVE REVIEWS - PENDULUM / LAURA MARLING
"We not longer give a fuck what anyone else thinks." - Pendulum
Dance-metal collective Pendulum explain why they don't care what the world at large thinks of them, while Q meets up with Britain's Ice Queen Laura Marling before she performs in New York.
Q 289 Out now: The Hot List featuring Kings of Leon; Kasabian; America's best new bands; Ultimate Festival Q + A; Hollywood Rocks & Brandon Flowers - In The Studio.
+ A free Born in The USA CD
Out June 30, 2010.
Plus, in anticipation of Q's 25th Birthday: Vote online now for the Best 250 Albums of Q's Lifetime and you could win them - Full details.
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