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15 July 2026
Photo Andreas Neumann
Josh Homme‘s turbulent turbine QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE released a 5-track EP
last year, called Alive In The Catacombs. It was recorded in the literal catacombs, the
old cemetery tunnels under Paris. Five old, stripped-to-the-bone songs.
And it looks/sounds like he wants more of that intimacy with the new single EASY STREET.
Homme: “It’s kind of a funny song. It’s like hitting your funny bone, where it’s funny because
it hurts and it hurts because it’s funny. You’re serious, but it’s funny. We made it the way you’d make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren’t great, but they’re not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can’t fake.”
TUTV: Certainly another kind of feel good summer hit than the one from 2000. No bragging about taking a ton of drugs here. No macho riffs. No astronomic power speed. Easy Street is an acoustic power pop gem. Infectiously melodic, spiced with duet vocals here and there. Let the freaks and the birds sing.
Here we go.
