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Foals mocked Arctic Monkeys at Q Awards?; both playing KROQ Christmas w/ Vampire Weekend, QOTSA & more

Alex Turner doing an ELVIS IMPERSONATION??? (more by Tim Griffin)
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LA radio station KROQ is doing its annual Almost Acoustic Christmas from December 7-8 at LA’s Shrine Auditorium. The lineup for day 1 was just announced, and it includes Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Foals and more. Tickets for day 1 go on sale Friday (11/8) at noon. Full day 1 lineup below.

In related news, Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Vampire Weekend were all among the winners at the 2013 Q Awards. Arctic Monkeys won ‘Best Track’ for “Do I Wanna Know?” and Foals and Vampire Weekend won for ‘Best Live Act’ and ‘Best Act In The World Today,’ respectively.

There was some drama at the ceremony though, as it certainly sounded like Foals took a stab at Arctic Monkeys (via NME). Upon receiving their award, Foals’ Yannis Phillippakis said, “”It shows you don’t need a backing track, you don’t need affectation, you don’t need Elvis Presley impersonations.” As NME points out, it seems pretty obvious that he was talking about Alex Turner with the Elvis impersonations bit.

Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, and Foals have all played NYC this year. Queens of the Stone Age are about to, when their tour hits Barclays Center (12/14) with The Kills (tickets).

Meanwhile, Vampire Weekend just had to cancel some European dates.

Full KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas day 1 lineup below…

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas — 2013 Day 1 Lineup
Kings of Leon
Queens of the Stone Age
Arctic Monkeys
Vampire Weekend
Foals
Cage the Elephant
Grouplove
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