Them Crooked Vultures, hot off a mind-erasing Saturday Night Live performance, and the release of their debut album are teaming up with ZME Music to give one lucky fan a chance to score a sweet prize pack. One winner will be able to jam to Them Crooked Vultures on Rock Band 2 on their brand new XBOX 360! To enter the contest, all you have to do is register your details here and you’ll have…
A while ago, I concluded that if 2008 was considered by many a year outshined by band reunions, then 2009 is definitely the year of the super groups. Last year we got to hear some awesome new material by newly formed bands, whose members were super, duper musicians, hence the term super group (doh). There was Monsters of Folk (Conor Oberst, Jim James, Mike Mogis, M. Ward), The Dead Weather (Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita, Jack…
I know this is a bit late, considering it’s been almost three months since the Reading and Leeds festivals took place, but this high quality footage of Them Crooked Vultures playing “Elephants” live is just too good not to share. Homme is ripping it all the way delivering perfectly balanced guitar work, while also singing, John Paul Jones proves he lives up to the legend tied to his name keeping the bass line afloat with…
After having released a free single on iTunes, Them Crooked Vultures have now decided to release the entire album to Youtube for streaming. I can’t recall an artist putting an album stream on Youtube before. Albums have appeared there before, but not legally. It’s usually made available on either MySpace or a webzine, so this is new. I haven’t made it through the entire album yet so I can’t speak as to whether or not…
Them Crooked Vultures have released a new single from their forthcoming self-titled album called “Mind Eraser, No Chaser.” It’s named after the drink, and the song’s lyrics discuss the “dangerous side-effects.” The song’s typical of what’s already been heard from the band: skittery, sideways riffs running rampant, Dave’s kit pounding and Josh’s swagger behind the mic. It’s playful, it’s fun, it’s awesome. But don’t waste any more time reading this. Go get it. [Keep in…
Since the super-group trio of Josh Homme/Dave Grohl/JP Johns was first announced a few months back, Them Crooked Vultures have become the number one act in the scene, with all eyes turning towards them, watching the band’s every move. Be it secret live shows, teasers and cryptic messages, The Vultures haven’t been too generous with details at all, but we’re pretty happy about what we’ve learned today. So, finally, Them Crooked Vultures debut self-titled will…
The supergroup is still amidst European festivals, much to the frustrations of North Americans, playing new song after new song, teasing the world with their awesome rock, until some day a proper tour and album release date will be finally announced. Their latest stint was at the Lowlands Festival where they played two incredible new songs, the grungy “Caligulove” and the heavy riffage jam “New Fang” (JPJ’s influence on this one can be smelled from…
We were all really psyched about the whole Them Crooked Vultures deal, how it was more than just a rumor, how it’s developing into more than just a super-group – into a movement. I’m loving it! Sadly, for their debut performance at Chicago’s Metro we couldn’t find any footage what so ever. All we could do was to wait for the day the band was going to play again, while hopefully some die hard fan…
As previously reported, the raddest supergroup to have graced the rock scene in years, namely Them Crooked Vultures, hit Chicago’s Metro this Sunday, rocking the sweaty 1,000+ privileged crowd in hall. How was the band’s debut? Considering it came as an aftershow for the three day Lollapalooza fest that went on this weekend, by all accounts that surfaced (see twitter) it was a simply marvelous experience – hands down the best show from the Lollapalooza…
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