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The Latest Breaking News from QOTSA

Queens Of The Stone Age announce first live dates since Josh Homme's emergency surgery

Queens Of The Stone Age will return to the road in June 2025

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Queens of the Stone Age cancel all 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives ‘essential medical care’

Frontman must ‘prioritise his health’, a month after he underwent emergency surgery and two years after his cancer diagnosis

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Queens Of The Stone Age cancel all remaining 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives "essential medical care"

The latest cancellations follow the shelving of a run of festival dates in Europe earlier this summer

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Queens of the Stone Age cancel more European shows as frontman Josh Homme recovers from emergency surgery

A further string of Queens of the Stone Age festival dates in Europe pulled as Josh Homme remains in doctors' care

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“Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue”: Queens Of The Stone Age cancel European dates with Josh Homme to undergo emergency surgery

The frontman is to return to the US immediately, leaving string of dates across Europe cancelled

MusicRadar

“It is no longer an option to continue”: Queens of the Stone Age cancel tour dates as Josh Homme is rushed to emergency surgery

The band had been scheduled to perform a number of headline and festival shows across July

Guitar World

“Queens are gutted we aren't able to play for you.” Queens Of The Stone Age cancel European tour as Josh Homme returns to the United States for “emergency surgery”

QOTSA share “frustration and disappointment” after being forced to cancel eight European shows

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“St. Vincent is one of the best players in the world right now… she has that Jeff Buckley thing going on”: Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr names 10 guitarists who shaped his bass sound

The Royal Blood frontman explains why guitarists have influenced him more than bassists as he marks the 10th anniversary of the duo’s debut album

Guitar World

“They just risk everything – every song starts from a point of absolutely no safety net”: Queens of the Stone Age engineer and producer Robert Adam Stevenson on working with Josh Homme, Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and recording a very '80s Taylor Hawkins

Interview: Since his own band broke up, Stevenson has taken the producer/engineer route, diving straight into the LA music scene and recording its biggest stars

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I was like, ‘I ain’t been in another band, I ain’t done this for anybody else before'”: Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on the time he joined Iggy Pop’s band

The Arctic Monkeys man was behind the kit for Iggy's 2016 album Post Pop Depression

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“We are the most difficult simple band. I’ve often heard guys coming up to us saying, ‘You guys are just playing barre chords!’ I am glad you think it is that simple!”– Troy Van Leeuwen on QOTSA's musical illusions and gear secrets

Troy Van Leeuwen checks in from The End Of Nero Tour to talk fuzz favourites, filling in for Dave Navarro in Jane's Addiction, and why no one pedal alone can recreate Queens Of The Stone Age's guitar tone

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"People who want to tell you what to do?They should shut the f**k up": Josh Homme on Queens Of The Stone Age providing a "safe space" for personal expression

For Josh Homme, Queens Of The Stone Age will always be a sanctuary for those who refuse to toe the line

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“Billy Gibbons brought some off-brand amp simulator to the studio. We heard him playing through this thing and it was like, ‘Wow! It sounds like f**kin’ Billy Gibbons!’” Troy Van Leeuwen might have just proven beyond doubt that tone truly is in the hands

The Queens of the Stone Age guitarist recalls a studio visit from the ZZ Top icon, and in doing so provides yet more evidence in favor of the ‘tone is in the hands’ argument

Guitar World

"Now it's like one big giant robot made of everybody": Queens of the Stone Age's Jon Theodore on adapting to QOTSA's drumming alumni, a decade in the band and In Times New Roman…

The QOTSA drummer talks In Times New Roman…rediscovering wood drums and firing Dave Grohl's Song For The Dead drum intro into space

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As emo reigns elsewhere, Queens of the Stone Age rock Riot Fest

Nuanced sound made for one of the best-sounding sets of the weekend at Douglass Park.

Guitar World

Josh Homme’s “core tone with the minimum of fuss”: this UK-made pedal sounds like Queens of the Stone Age and looks like it, too – thanks to exclusive Boneface artwork

The Skeleton Key is a QOTSA-flavored collab from Funny Little Boxes and Let’s Play All – best known as the masterminds behind the acclaimed 1991 pedal

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Unlock Josh Homme’s QOTSA tones with the Skeleton Key, the new £99 drive pedal from Funny Little Boxes

Is this the pedalboard solution that Queens Of The Stone Age fans have been waiting for?

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"It's Spiderman again!" Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reunites with masked superhero at European festival

Watch the beautiful moment that Spiderman is invited to join Queens Of The Stone Age onstage, once again

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Cave In's Anchor: how the "emo-metal Radiohead" helped put the final nail in the nu metal coffin

Cave In almost became metal's next big thing after ditching metalcore, writing "their own Black Hole Sun" and touring with Foo Fighters and Muse

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Queens of the Stone Age rock Cardiff Castle ahead of Glastonbury performance

It was their first performance in Cardiff for 20 years

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Queens Of The Stone Age's In Times New Roman... is a brutal dissection of dark days and damage done, but Josh Homme's pain isn't everyone's gain

Queens Of The Stone Age go 'walking deeper into the darkness' on album number eight

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Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK / European tour

QOTSA have shared details of the UK/EU leg of their The End Is Nero tour

MusicRadar

Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reveals he had surgery for cancer

Homme said he had a successful procedure in 2022 and he is “extremely thankful” that he’ll recover. Meanwhile, QOTSA share new track Carnavoyeur

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Queens Of The Stone Age drop trippy new track Carnavoyeur

Queens Of The Stone Age release new single Carnavoyeur, lifted from their forthcoming eighth studio album In Times New Roman…

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