Former Nirvana bassist and general Washingtonian luminary Krist Novoselic has dubbed former bandmate and rock superstar Dave Grohl 'the greatest rock musician in the world today', in his column for Seattle Weekly.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Organisers of this year's Reading Festival have defended sound levels at this year's event after complaints from fans.»
Having got wind of the 'outrage' from fans and the media after his on-stage ranting in Norway, and accompanying accusations that he's a homophobe, Josh Homme has spoken out»
Word reached us today, by the power of LOL and the DrownedinSound message board, that Josh Homme doesn’t like it when you repeatedly throw things at his head. Especially when he’s trying to put on a show at a Scandinavian festival»
Fresh faced and still in stitches from being, the touring, roaring Queens of the Stone Age have just shot a new video for their next single.»
Queens of the Stone Age were ejected from their own show at a Californian rehab centre last week.»
Californian rockers Queens of the Stone Age are to tour in February? Their latest LP, Era Vulgaris, is totally out now»
Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age will play a number of dates across the UK this winter.»
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro are to support Queens of the Stone Age on the latter's US tour next month...»
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has announced his bizaare career highlight so far - dancing onstage with a dwarf.»
Some bands might try and put the 'art' into charts, disgusted as they are with all the commercial dross choking up its failing innards on a weekly basis. Here at DiS we like to put the 'ha' in charts, as in 'ha ha ha ha fucking ha'. Luckily for us they're usually quite funny anyway, so we don't have to tell any shit jokes...»
Hands up everyone who actually cares about the charts this week! Yup, you saw me alright, keeping my hands under my ample ass...»
The DiS-associated Hove Festival – held in the picturesque surroundings of Tromoy, on the Norwegian coast, from June 26-30 – has confirmed its final, pretty dang good actually line-up...»
You - yes, you - can wrap your ears around the new Queens Of The Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris, ahead of the crowd by clicking to a special microsite jobby...»
The line-up of Norway’s Hove Festival – one of a handful of DiS-associated events going down this summer, y’all – is taking shape very nicely...»
Wow! It's this week's news in a handy, easily digestible format! With enough exclamation marks to raise a gudgeon's eyebrows!»
While musing on why the hell FA Cup Quarter Final replays are being held on a Monday, we also stumbled across the line ups for this year’s 02 Wireless Festival...»
LA's Queens of The Stone Age have announced details of their new album...»
This year's Lollapalooza line-up has been announced. The festival, which will take place in Chicago's Grant Park on August 4th-6th.»
Folks attending the upcoming Foo Fighters gigs can bag themselves a nice rare slab o' wax: support act Eagles Of Death Metal, featuring the pictured Josh Homme on drums and Jesse Hughes on guitar, are selling a limited-edition 7" from their merch stall...»
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme fainted on stage in Germany on Monday, prompting rumours that the band might have to cancel their European tour...»
No-nonsense rockers Queens of the Stone Age are at it again with another multi-show night in London. In addition to their scheduled date in the Somerset House Series on Thursday 7th July at 7.30, they have now scheduled a further late night rock séance at KOKO from 1am into the early hours...»
Hello, a quick post-bank holiday whizz through the charts then:»
QotsA have cancelled their remaining European dates after Josh Homme was taken ill with a serious lung infection.»
Queens Of The Stone Age will play two London shows on the same night. Crazy...»
Corporo-giants Mean Fiddler have agreed with fellow wonga-magnet Universal Records a deal to offer MP3 downloads of live performances from this year’s Reading/Leeds weekend.»
Queens Of The Stone Age front man Josh Homme has spoken out about the sacking of bassist Nick Oliveri last month.»
It's true: Queens Of The Stone Age HAVE split up. Kinda...»
Another day, another rumour about some band breaking up...»
Josh went out into the Desert again and you can hear it all, here, for nowt... try before you buy and all that.»
Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is set to release a sixth solo album in January next year, entitled ‘Bubblegum’. ‘Bubblegum’ features guest spots from Greg Dulli, fellow Stone Age-rs Josh Homme and Nick Olivieri, P.J. Harvey and G n’R boys Izzy Str»
Mondo Generator are playing a secret gig tonight (25th June 2003) at The Monarch in Camden. ZZ-top bearded Viking lookalikey, who's partial to getting his cock out and sometimes Queens of the Stone Age bassist, Nick Oliveri, will be rocking the rock under his Mondo Generator side project gui»
Can you think of a time when Josh Homme and his ZZ-top-bearded-buddy-who-likes-to-get-nekkid Nick Oliveri, have been outta the news? Well, don't expect 'em to be quiet anytime soon.. With at least two side-projects due this year (Desert Session 9+10 + Mondo Generator), you might be surprised to hear Que»
Martina Topley-Bird used to be one half of Tricky. Now, though still collaborating with him, she's set to become a solo artist. At bloody last. Her first solo single 'Need One' features Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan on guitar and backing vocals and is more a funked-up blues track than an»
With the summer festival season getting closer, more bands are confirming their attendance with almost two weeks left before tickets go on sale on March the 31st. All around the now usual official veto on the festival, followed by»
Virgin festival tickets are on sale as of 9am today (Saturday 8th March).. For £90 (don't forget the booking fee!) on August 16th/17th @ Weston Park, Staffordshire & Hylands Park Chelmsford, Essex.. you will see: Coldplay do their only English festival in 2003 »
Rabid punk metal grindcore merchants (not!) Queens of the Stone Age have left the desert (yawn...) and are traipsing through the sands of the British Academies in June. It's only gonna be a shortish tour cos it's a warmup venture for their appearance at some new festival in Glastonbury. It's QotS»
You'd of thought Josh Homme might want a break from his life of excess but at the Big Day Out details are coming out about Desert Sessions 9.. For anyone who doesn't know, 'Desert Sessions' is a Josh Homme curated party in the middle of nowhere (a desert to be precise - dur!) with loads of instrumen»
Back in 2000 with 'Mer de Noms', a super band took over the rock scene as we know it. And now they're coming back... Troy Van Leeuwen (QOTSA touring guitarist), Josh Freeze, Billy Howerdal and Maynard James Keenan (TOOL), otherwise known as A PERFECT CIRCLE are due to rel»
It's been quite a while since we last heard from PJ Harvey but after a bit of looking for info on the next album (there is no info yet, grrr!) we've found the following.. According to Murmurs.com, an REM fansite, the band's managem»
While the Grohl is away, the Chris Shiflett will form a side project with his brothers... Rolling Stone is reporting that Foo Fighters and former No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett went into the studio while Dave Grohl was messing around with the Queens and recorded 20 songs with his »
Queens Of The Stone Age have announced details of their new album and the band have added a London date to their touring schedule. The album entitled 'Songs For The Deaf' will be released on 12th August. As previously reported t»
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl is to take time out from working on the Foo's new album to temporarily return to Queens Of The Stone Age as a drummer. Grohl did most of the drumming on 'Songs For The Deaf', the forthcoming album from QOTSA, and has decided to go on the road for the»
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is teaming up with Amen's bad-example-to-the-kids Casey Chaos to, in Homme's own words, "scratch the heaviest itch I got". Also involved in the as-yet unnamed project are QOTSA bassist Nick Oliveri and Casey's bandmate Shannon Larkin on drums. An a»
QOTSA's Josh Homme releases the 7th and 8th Desert Sessions.
'Desert Session Vol 7&8' will be the first release on Josh Homme's new label Rekords Rekords. Continuing his highly successful series of recordings where he goes into the desert, with some of the most talented rock musicians of»
In addition to our recent news of the 'Queens Of The Stone Age'' tour, their support has now been confirmed.
Indie rockers 'King Adora' are to support them on the following tour dates :-
June 5 - Norwich UEA
June 6 - Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
June 7 - Newport Centre
June 1»
US rockers 'Queens Of The Stone Age' are back on these shores again. After a highly succesful 2000, the band return on a high with several headlining shows and another date as one of the support acts for rock veterans AC/DC (the others are Megadeath & Offspring.) The dates for th»
Fountains Of Wayne, Lambchop, Yo La Tengo, Queens of the Stoneage appear
on 'This Is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks'.
The album, which is due to be released in the US on Praxis Recordings on the
24th July, includes the following:
Bebel Gilberto - No Return
Foun»
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