QOTSA to release live tour CD with bonus cover tracks + new tour dates

To celebrate their forthcoming Canada tour, the southern cal’ hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age, are set to release a “Limited Tour Edition” of last year’s ZME top 10 albums Era Vulgaris. The track will feature some awesome live versions of Era Vulgaris songs, as well as some of the band’s pre-Vulgaris songs. There’s one catch to it though: it’s only available in Canada upon its release on April 15. I guess it’s a…

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Josh Homme in the german salt mines: ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll isn’t about safety’

Photo by Matthew Field As previously reported the Californian super group [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] was set to play a gig in the cold deeps of a German salt mine. The concert took place, in front of a small and intimate crowd, on November 20, where the band played live 700 meters underground. The initial press release reported that the band was going to play a never before performed live track, but haven’t heart…

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New Queens of the Stone Age video: ‘Make It Wit Chu’

The Palm Desert based [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] are back with a video, for their third single “Make It Wit Chu;” a sensual and sexual video, for a very passionate blues-like song. For those of you who are familiar with the Desert Sessions, then you probably know that the song has been featured for years ago, on the Vol. 9 of the “never ending mixtape,” as Josh Homme likes to call them. The video…

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QOTSA set to play salt mine gig + reveal new tracks

Your favorite prehistoric rock band, [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag], has just finished it’s short Canadian trek, but being the traveling sort they don’t plan on resting any time soon as they’ll soon embark on their European tour. Yesterday a pretty weird press release, announced that Josh Homme and co. will play 1 mile underground in a therapeutic German salt mine.

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Homme wants to record a new album and fast

The current QOTSA lineup is in top notch form and eager to record a new LP, according to it’s frontman Josh Homme. “The other night we were up ’til six in the morning, all of us playing guitar,” Homme says of a roster that includes multi-instrumentalist Troy Van Leeuwen and drummer Joey Castillo, who joined in 2002, and new members bassist Michael Shuman (Wires On Fire) and utility man Dean Fertita (the Raconteurs, the Waxwings)….

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New QotSA video: ‘3’s & 7’s’

Death Proof meets [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] in “3’s & 7’s” or badass sex kittens flaunt their switchblades and wreak havoc in a dangerous desert town. Any video that combines sex, drugs, fast muscle cars, exaggerate amount of violence and gore is ace in my book. Oh and add that to the tremendous cascading riffs this track employs and you’ve got a must see video on your hands.

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The Queens extend tour with European dates

A while back we released the tour dates for the [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] all US tour, now we’ve been informed that a couple of new shows have been announced that will surely delight European Queens fans. Right after they finish their US trek, the band will head to rock it out in Germany, before unleashing they royal rock to the Brits. Dates after the jump.

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Catch Queens of the Stone Age on tour this fall

When i get to talk about [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag], It’s just so easy to write and to lay my words on ‘paper’, I mean there’s no secret I love this band to the death (not really, it’s just a figure of speech), their music has influenced my musical taste in a unimaginable degree, I could even go to such lengths and say I’ve discovered Rock’n’Roll alongside them. Few bands can light up a…

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See Iggy & the Stooges, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine and more this year in Vegoose

Vegoose is the ultimate Halloween festival extravaganza, providing quality live gigs from top bands in the sinful city of Las Vegas for the past 3 years now. This year, however, promises to be the wildest and most awesome year, with bands like [tag]Rage Against the Machine[/tag], [tag]Daft Punk[/tag], [tag]The Shins[/tag], [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] or [tag]Muse[/tag] as headliners, joined by Iggy & The Stooges, who will perform the ’70 acclaimed album “Fun House”, in…

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Josh Homme continues tour despite injury

Josh Homme, the notorious frontman for the stoner rock band [tag]Queens Of The Stone Age[/tag] has reveled he has some serious medical issues, namely knee problems. Josh made some medical interventions on his knee in 2005, but it seems his pain has relapsed. His knee issues could be clearly seen during this weekends T In The Park and Oxegen festivals, as was severely limping and using a walking stick. Stereo Warning did a very interesting…

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