FEATURES
Desperate Times
Inanageofunrest,DaveGrohlisstillsearching for hope.
ByRod Yates...........................................................................................
Khalid’s Teen Spirit
HowalonelyArmybratmadetheyear’sfreshest, most
surprising debut.ByJonah Weiner............................................... 58
TheWonderofGalGadot
TheformerIsraelicombatinstructorhadgivenup on acting.
Then came Wonder Woman. The unlikely rise of the most
badass female action hero.
ByAlex Morris................................................................................... 62
The Great Pretender
AlexCameronismakingfriendsinhighplaces.
ByLachlan Kanoniuk.................................................................... 66
Pleasure&Pain
Death,terrorismandbadkneescan’tstopJoshHomme and
Queens of the Stone Age.
ByBarry Divola................................................................................... 68
TheHumbleKing
ThebestrapperaliveonhisNumberOnehit,Taylor Swift and
the End Times.
ByBrian Hiatt..................................................................................
ROCK&ROLL
The Killers’
‘Welcome’ Return
Brandon Flowers and Ronnie
Vannucci on making their
most personal album yet. .....
TheStonesAreBack
Angus&Julia,thatis,with
their new album ‘Snow’.........
Q&A: Ringo Starr
TheformerBeatle on why
he’ll never write a memoir and
recording with McCartney .. 22
My Soundtrack:
Brian Molko
The Placebo frontman on, er,
Kim Gordon’s socks .............. 38
DEPARTMENTS
Letters ..................................... 6
Random Notes..................... 10
Records ................................. 79
The Last Page ....................... 90
“AlltheNewsThat Fits”
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WONDER
STUFF
Gal Gadot’s
rise.Page
KILLING IT
The Killers
return. Page 13
ON THE COVER Foo Fighters