The Queens of the Stone Age are back in true rock fashion with a hot new album and music video “Sick, Sick, Sick” – a hard-rocking and catchy cruncher that is sure to make long-time fans happy and undoubtedly recruit new legions of hard rockers.
Fresh CDs of the band’s new release Era Vulgaris hit the stores last month and “Sick, Sick, Sick” has been spinning non-stop on rock radio stations worldwide, even making it to #36 on Billboard’s Rock Singles chart.
Era Vulgaris is a fantastic rock album and lives up to what would be expected from professional rockers. Rolling Stone magazine rock critic Rob Sheffield sums it up well:
“The latest release is Homme’s fifth Queens album, and like the others, it’s intricately crafted, meticulously polished and ruthlessly efficient in its pursuit of depraved rock thrills…”
Fans seem to dig it too. Read what Amazon.com reviewers think.
A Cast of Constantly Shifting Characters
QOSA or QOSTA (will someone decide which it is to be) has had many pauses and starts since the band’s 1997 formation and band members have quit, rejoined, quit again, substituted and collaborated with other artists on various projects and musical endeavors.
In addition to the release of two albums – R and Songs for the Deaf – in the past five years, QOSA founding members, singer and guitarist Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, also scored the soundtrack to the movie The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys with help from Brad Wilk, drummer for Rage Against the Machine.
In 2005, Homme reunited with some past band members and contributing artists to release the LP Lullabies to Paralyze. The group also played a couple of years on the OzzFest tour.
For fans that are really curious of the number of rockers who have played, or are still members, in the band, check out their biography on AllMusic.com – the best online source for music of all kinds.
Just a few of them include The Screaming Trees’ Van Conner, Soundgarden‘s Matt Cameron, and Dinosaur Jr.‘s Mike Johnson and musicians from bands like Fu Manchu and Monster Magnet. Even Foo Fighters Ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has performed with the band.
QOSA Summer of 2007 Show Dates
Queens of the Stone Age are set to headline the Live 105FM (San Francisco) Bloc Party fest on June 9 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, approximately 30 miles south of San Francisco. A number of other popular indie artists will also be playing at the all day show.
Here are some of the other gigs QOSA have scheduled as of today’s date for the summer of 2007:
6/7/2007
Radio
Fresno Fair Grounds
KFRR’s Birthday Bash www.1041fresno.com for more details
6/8/2007
Radio
Ventura County Fairgrounds
KJEE Presents The Seaside Beach Ball at
The Ventura Fairgrounds
8/4/2007
Concert
Indianapolis, IN Murat Centre