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Today's time-wasting music news nonsense includes...

James Hetfield's ludicrous beard sparks
terrorist alert.

Slash to star as a video game character in
Guitar Hero 3.

Ever wondered what Pete Doherty's doodles look like?

Was this the biggest moshpit in history?

Download Madonna and Gogol Bordello playing La Isla Bonita at Live Earth
here.

And download Tom Jones' arse-chewingly awful cover of I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor here.

Oh, and here's how the price of cocaine varies around the world.

10:18 AM | 10/07/2007

Column - Who are Noel Gallagher's psychedelic friends, Amorphous Androgynous?

With the first track from Noel's second solo album set to make its debut as a B-side next month, Jamie Skey profiles his cosmic collaborators
Column - The best masks in music not starring Slipknot, Daft Punk, SBTRK, GWAR and more...

What have this lot got to hide? Jamie Skey rounds up music's answers to the Lone Ranger...
Column - The Spanish indie inquisition: Can Iberia's finest break the language barrier?

Al Horner looks at Spanish bands like We Are Standard and Polock who are trying to score success in the UK
New To Q With Chris Catchpole - Q308 A$AP Rocky, We Are Augustines & Ren Hervieu

Plus our new music man takes stock of last week's Q Now: The Sessions shows
Q308 - Q Quiz win a trip to the Snow Bombing Festival in Austria

Just 21 questions stand between you and a music festival in the Alps...
Q&a Sleigh Bells - the inside story on their Reign Of Terror, studio antics & getting kids to dance in cars!

Eve Barlow quizzes the New York duo as they gear up to release their second album later this month

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