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obituaries

Natasha Shneider, R.I.P.

Natasha Shneider, who played keyboards and sang with the band Eleven and collaborated with Queens of the Stone Age and Chris Cornell, died of cancer yesterday. "She was a brilliant, beautiful, and ballsy woman who will be missed deeply by all those who knew her. Send your loving thoughts her way in the universe," wrote frequent collaborator Troy Van Leeuwen. Shneider and her husband Alain Johannes founded Eleven with former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons in 1990, and the band recorded five albums and toured with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Queens Of The Stone Age—all groups that members of Eleven would eventually collaborate with or join. Shneider's colorful career also included playing a cosmonaut in 2010: The Year We Make Contact and recording a song for the Catwoman soundtrack. Some clips from her career below. More »

10:15 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Anthony Miccio
5,597 views, 4 comments

Latest by Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: Holy shit. I had no idea about this. Very sad, indeed. more »

they write letters

Josh Homme Speaks To The Peanut Gallery

Josh Homme's 102-degree-fever-fueled tirade against a bottle-throwing concertgoer, which included the epithet "little chickenshit faggot" and threats of buggery, inspired many a comment-thread debate over whether or not Homme was a homophobe, whether or not the kid who threw the bottle was an asshole anyway, whether or not Homme is devolving into Axl Rose Mach 2.0, etc., etc. Well, Josh has responded, and not only did he take a page from one of our commenters and invoke the name of Bill Hicks, he used some really unpleasant Porta-Potty-related metaphors! More »

10:00 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,532 views, 54 comments

Latest by roeblingx: @OliverTwist: sorry. you're still bullshit, and i call you out on it. you're obviously personally offended by this and have made it your mission to conquer Josh Homme, while dodging the reality of it all, in that you are no better more »

a rebuttal

Do Fuck With The Wildhearts


Josh Homme may not appreciate it when you send a bottle his way, but the Wildhearts took a different tack during their Download Festival performance yesterday. After a projectile-studded performance of "Sick Of Drugs," shown above, singer Ginger asked "is that all you've got to throw?" His banter inspired a barrage that, while sadly not yet posted online, was intense enough that festival managers pulled the band from the stage. While I don't want to suggest that bands should necessarily invite abuse, this is a bit more admirable a reaction than gay-baiting and security-assisted violence. [Sleaze Roxx]

1:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
186 views, 2 comments

Latest by bcapirigi: When I saw QotSA a few years ago, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead opened. Somebody threw something at them, and they ended up yelling at security and saying that the guy (who was being more »

sick sick sick

Do Not Fuck With Josh Homme


While Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme probably didn't enjoy having a bottle thrown at him during his band's performance at the Norwegian Wood festival in Oslo, I'm not sure it warrants throwing shit back and yelling "little chickenshit faggot! Lift him up so I can kick him in the fucking face!" while the offending teen is held by security. "I may have a fucking 102 degree temperature, been puking for three days, but I will still buttfuck you in front of all your friends." Hot blooded! More »

10:00 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,947 views, 36 comments

Latest by tigerpop: @Paul D: Bill Hicks was one of the greatest thinkers that ever did stand-up comedy. He was a "reader" too, to use his own terminology--he stopped using the "f" word not so long after his career started to take off, more »

videodrone

Queens Of The Stone Age Bring Back Memories Of "MTV2 Video Mods"



The new Queens Of The Stone Age video, "3s & 7s," their second for the track, finds the band replaced by Rock Band avatars considerably more skinny and twirl-prone than their human counterparts. Oddly, the previous video for the song, which attempted to swipe the Grindhouse zeitgeist, didn't feature much more of the band (p.s. this track fucking smokes, but anyone who plays Guitar Hero III already knows that). More »

5:45 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,068 views, 7 comments

In conjunction with Queens Of The Stone Age's upcoming Canadian tour, the band will re-release 2007's Era Vulgaris with a bonus EP that includes (among other potentially entertaining effluvia) a cover of Brian Eno's "Needle In The Camel's Eye." Naturally, I'm psyched, but I still think Homme and Co. should heed the advice of my B.F.F. and just cover "SexyBack" already. [Pitchfork]

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videodrone

Queens Of The Stone Age (Kinda) Rock The Travel Channel

So last night I hunkered down with a big bowl of stuffing for the long-awaited (in my household, anyway) appearance of Queens Of The Stone Age, decked out in winter finery straight off the Sears clearance rack, on the special holiday episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Who knew what kind of shenanigans would be afoot? Perhaps Josh Homme would strangle a turkey to death with his bare hands, or everyone would get so messy on egg nog that something would end up on fire. Or at least someone would vomit. But alas, the band was mostly relegated to interstitial entertainment between Bourdain briefing us on foie gras and the fine sport of curling, and while the caroling Queens' appearance did bring some LOLs, other tomfoolery never materialized. Still, here they are talking about what made them decide to hook up with Bourdain in the first place, plus their alternative soundtrack for last night's show. Pretty sure this is actually more screen time than they got last night. Sniffle.

2:30 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By jharv
559 views, 7 comments

Latest by Plague: @Patmasterbateman- Yawn. Dude, if ANYONE is guilty of "arrogant opera-rock" it's effin' NIN. While no, QOTSA didn't blow them off the stage, they did manage to use slightly less electricity than Reznor, who could have powered a small island with his more »

when it rains, it pours

Queens Of The Stone Age Leave Us Grasping At "Shaft" Puns


"During Queens Of The Stone Age's recent European tour, the band played an exclusive unplugged set one mile underground in a former salt mine in Erfurt, Germany." Okay, a rehab clinic, Anthony Bourdain's Travel Channel Christmas special (airing Monday!), and a salt mine. They're just fucking with us now. More »

9:00 AM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By jharv
345 views, 4 comments

clara peller dept. part deux

Josh Homme Asks Interscope To Do Something We Can't Print In A Headline

Everybody's extra pissed off today, it seems. And even if Queen Of The Stone Age and working man Josh Homme lacks Morrissey's bone-dry wit, he's just as upset with his corporate handlers at Interscope as Moz is with the NME, railing (in all-caps, no less) against "the glorified groupie with the fucking hundred thousand dollar expense accounts" in this typically entertaining sit-down where he makes the most of the f-bomb and gives Jimmy Iovine the atomic gas face. More »

11:30 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By jharv
2,401 views, 10 comments

Latest by dsven: Not that I don't agree with him, but whenever I see an artist bitch about his label/industry like Josh does, I feel a bit conflicted. As crappy as he may think the label is, there is no way that more »

Queens Of The Stone Age are scheming with one of the Sifl and Olly guys to produce an animated flick starring their cartoon lightbulb mascot. Guess this means our pitch for a Saturday-morning Homme Babies series was turned down. [Gigwise]

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pranks

Queens Of The Stone: Not Approved By The AMA

Speaking of sex tapes I'd definitely watch, good samaritan Josh Homme and his Queens Of The Stone Age were recently recruited by an "unnamed Los Angeles drying out clinic" to provide "a light-hearted, intimate performance" for patients. And the clinic was delighted when the Queens accepted, at least up to the moment the band started playing, because apparently no one on staff had ever listened to their music or read a single interview with the mischievous Mr. Homme. More »

1:55 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By jharv
3,995 views, 10 comments

Latest by mwynn13: @jessdolator: Note that there's no mention of which facility this was. Shenanigans! more »

videodrone

Queens Of The Stone Age Angle For A Congressional Hearing Of Their Own


Presenting the new Queens of the Stone Age video, in which Josh Homme indulges his alpha-male bred love of degrading exploitation trash from the Land Before Imus (a.k.a. the '70s) in the most awesomely corny OTT way. (Forget the Tarantino refs making the rounds on the blogs today: Am I the only one made briefly nostalgic for White Zombie while watching?) Plus there's a women-in-chains aspect that will appeal to my mom's undying love of chicks-in-prison movies (don't ask). Fun for the whole family!

Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's [YouTube via Paper Thin Walls]

3:45 PM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By jharv
287 views, 3 comments

Latest by katie_a_princess: omg is an homage that's, like, art. gay [guys] kissing on the tube? that's, like, something else. more »

ho ho ho

Queens Of The Stone Age Prepare A Little Chrismas Pudding

Apparently because I've been a very good little boy this year, two of my masculine ideals—rugged-ass desert boogie king/Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and middle-aged alcoholic vagabond/populist-elitist foodie Anthony Bourdain—are bringing me the exact opposite of a lump of coal when they come together for, according to Rolling Stone, the "weirdest holiday special ever" on a upcoming episode of Bourdain's No Reservations: More »

2:40 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By jharv
3,335 views, 1 comment

more like queens of the groan age

Homme To Osborne: Kiss My Grits

Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme (number one hunka-hunka I most regret not including in our hottest hotties list) has joined Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson as the latest humanitarian to go after harridan, reality TV show judge, and Ozzy-enabler Sharon Osbourne for the way Osbourne (and her hubby) run Ozzfest: More »

4:00 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By jharv
1,353 views, 10 comments

Alicia Keys says she wants to book studio time with both the White Stripes and Queens of the Stone Age in the near future. As someone with a huge crush on Josh Homme and a grudging acceptance of Ms. Keys since "You Don't Know My Name," I'm down. In the meantime, however, we get to "enjoy" her upcoming collaborations with John Mayer and Linda Perry. [Gigwise]

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on the shelf

Tomorrow's New Releases Revealed Today

Welcome to On The Shelf, where we look at a few of the releases hitting store shelves—both physical and virtual—on Tuesday. This week, we have new releases from Fabolous, Queens Of the Stone Age, Paramore, and Dizzee Rascal. More »

4:59 PM on Mon Jun 11 2007
By mjohnston
733 views, 5 comments

The Last Word: Queens Of The Stone Age Commit An "Era" Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is Queens Of The Stone Age's Era Vulgaris, which is released tomorrow:

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mp3

Leak Of The Day: Queens Of The Stone Age Enters A New Era

Queens Of The Stone Age's Era Vulgaris has been foisted upon the Internet, almost a month before its release—meaning that, at this very moment, a pissed-off Josh Homme is standing in the offices of Interscope, chain-smoking and looking generally intimidating. Two stand-out tracks below: The anti-materialism mau mau "I'm Designer" (which incorporates Josh Homme's high-pitched "spooky" voice) and the approriately titled "Make It With Chu": More »

2:55 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By Brian Raftery
4,060 views, 11 comments