Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). For the next week, we’ll be taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody’s cultural thermometer is accurate all the time).
Hit: Once upon a time, before Brandon Flowers grew a moustache and discovered Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone named the Killers Hot Band (it was 2004). “Now, rock bands are actually starting to make people dance instead of elbow each other,” Flowers said. Perhaps he was on to something: Hot Fuss went platinum three times, and its more anthemic follow-up Sam’s Town sailed past the million-sold mark, as well.
Miss: The British press created their own hot fuss around the Cooper Temple Clause (Rolling Stone named the band Hot Metal in 2002), but they never truly found their niche in the States. They lost a member to Dirty Pretty Things and eventually split in April after frontman Dan Fisher called it quits.
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