NINE-TO-FIVE ROCK STARS

The Kings of Leon weren’t always boring. With the meteoric success of 2008’s Only by the Night and the Grammy-nominated follow-up, 2010’s Come Around Sundown, the quartet’s rock-star résumé included onstage meltdowns and canceled tours. They coped with stardom by “roaming hotel corridors in naked cocaine stupors,” and told CNN, “We can consume more alcohol than any other band that ‘actually works.’”

Now they actually just work. The years of clichéd antics are behind them; they’ve consciously turned away from rock ’n’ roll excess. The four members of Kings of Leon (brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill, along with cousin Matthew Followill) live in nice houses in the same sleepy neighborhood outside Nashville. They’re supportive of one another. They’re polite to strangers. They get along.