FOO FIGHTERS Will Play EUROPE And THE UK Too In 2026
11 November 2025
A couple of weeks ago, Foo Fighters had already announced
tour dates for the US in 2026, with Queens Of The Stone Age
as guests.
Queens Of The Stone Age
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Announce THE CATACOMBS TOUR
24 June 2025
Josh Homme and his desperados will hit theaters in the US in the fall
Meanwhile, let’s enjoy a feel good summer.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – Muscular Rockers Released Breakthrough Album ‘RATED R’ 20 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
Macho stone rockers QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (Palm Desert, CA) fronted by general Josh Homme released their critically acclaimed 2nd LP RATED R this day 25 years ago, on 6 June 2000.
It was the first one with former Kyuss (co-founded by Homme) bassist Nick Oliveri (who was fired in 2004 following aggressive behaviour towards fans and his then-girlfriend) and the late great vocalist Mark Lanegan (1964-2022).
AllMusic wrote: “Longtime Kyuss fans might be disappointed at the relative lack of heaviness, but R’s direction was hinted at on the first QOTSA album, and Homme‘s experimentation really opens up the band’s sound, pointing to exciting new directions for heavy guitar rock in the new millennium.” – Score: 5/5
Singles: The Los Art Of Keeping A Secret / Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
– THE LOST ART OF KEEPING A SECRET –
– FEEL GOOD HIT OF THE SUMMER –
(Blistering live version)
ALBUM
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Will A Feel Good Hit Of The Summer In EUROPE
Last year QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE had to cancel summer
festivals in Europe due to illness of their general Josh Homme .
Healthy again, Homme and his compadres
will make up for it with 15 big shows.
Expect another Feel Good Hit Of The Summer by the Queens.
BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 20 In 2025
Back in time
31 December 2024
Band: THE WHITE STRIPES
Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Their 5rh LP. #3 in the UK and the US.
Pitchfork: “On their fifth album, the White Stripes’ ambitions finally seem to outpace their limited musical vocabulary. Making an almost-entirely clean break with the jet-fueled blues
rock of Elephant and De Stijl, they forsake electric guitar on all but a couple of tracks, working instead with pianos, acoustic guitars, marimbas, and other assorted oddball percussion.”
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Band: EDITORS
Album: The Back Room
Their first one. No. 2 in the UK.
No21 in the USA.
Pitchfork: “They imitate bands with dramatic vocalists … but the best moments
on The Back Room aren’t the theatrical ones—it’s when the four of them are playing
and discovering their own chemistry”.
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: OASIS
Album: Don’t Believe The Truth
Their 6th. #1 in the UK, #12 in the USA.
AllMusic: “Don’t Believe the Truth the closest Oasis has been to great since the
summer of Britpop, when they were the biggest and best band in the world.”
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Instagram – Website
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Band: dEUS
Album: Pocket Revolution
4th longplayer. No 1 in Belgium.
AllMusic: “The group offers an album that refuses to be pinned down to a single
style. Despite the extended break between albums, dEus picks up right where they
left off with The Ideal Crash.”
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Band: BLOC PARTY
Album: Silent Alarm
Their debut. No. 3 in the UK.
NME: Varied in tone and stylistically uncategorisable, one thing
is clear about Bloc Party’s debut album: it’s bloody brilliant.
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Band: HARD-FI
Album: CCTV
1st full length.
No. 1 in the UK.
The Guardian: “Hard-Fi’s edge over more derivative rivals lies in a formula
that delivers old Specials and Clash reggae vibes with the big-tune ratio of
a boy band.”
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Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Album: Devils & Dust
The 13th. #1 both in the UK & US.
Rolling Stone: “In striking and affecting ways, his most audacious
record since the home-demo American Gothic of 1982’s Nebraska.”
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Album: Lullabies To Paralyze
4th LP. #5 in the US, #4 in UK.
NME: ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’ will use its enigmatic mysticism to lull you into
a blissful daze so you don’t at first notice that the riffs have broken your neck.
Better. Than. Sex.”
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Band: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: A Bigger Bang
22nd LP. #2 in the UK,
#3 in the US.
The Guardian: “There is a sense of finality about A Bigger Bang. It may not be quite
the blazing ship to Valhalla they intended, but then nor is it the unmarked grave you
might expect.”
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Band: LCD SOUNDSYTEM
Album: LCD Soundsystem
Debut one. #6 in the US,
#20 in the UK.
AllMusic: “Like just about everybody else these days, Murphy’s more skilled at creating isolated tracks than making full-lengths, even though this particular full-length has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end.”
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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 25 In 2025
Back in time
30 December 2024
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Album: XTRMNTR
6th one, #3 in the UK.
AllMusic: “XTRMNTR is a nasty, fierce realization of an entire
world that has also lost the plot. It’s simply a protest, sonically
as well as lyrically, and maybe this would be a fine time to once
again rally behind something worthwhile.”
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Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Her 5th longplayer. #23 in the UK. Platinum in the US.
NME: “A magnificent, life-affirming opus.”
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Band: THE WHITE STRIPES
Album: De Stijl
The duo’s 2nd one. No. 137
in the UK. No. 38 in the US.
Rolling Stone: “Feisty and clever. Like everything about the White Stripes,
the album proves that you don’t need bombast to make a blues explosion.”
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Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: Kid A
4th LP. No. 1 in the UK, US, Ireland,
Scotland, New Zealand and Canada.
The Guardian: “Even listeners raised on krautrock or
Ornette Coleman will find Kid A a mystifying experience.”
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Instagram
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Artist: RICHARD ASHCROFT
Album: Alone With Everybody
Solo debut.
NME: “Ashcroft’s newly discovered stability has done nothing
to blunt his powers of communication or reduce his belief in
the apocalyptic potential of music.”
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Band: SHELLAC
Album: 1000 Hurts
3rd full length.
AllMusic: “True to Shellac form, the record is a sound purchase.
Within the domain of atonal, anti-commercial rock & roll, very
few are on their level.”
R.I.P. Steve Albini.
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Band: THE DELGADOS
Album: The Great Eastern
3rd longplayer. #12 in the UK, #37 in
their home country Scotland.
DIS: The Great Eastern is a majestic
journey of astounding beauty.
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Band: GRANDADDY
Album: The Sophtware Slump
Second LP.
The New York Times: “A heart-achingly beautiful requiem for
a culture in which progress and technology have led to alienation
and disposability”.
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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Album: Rated R
Second one. #16 in the US,
#54 in the UK.
AllMusic: “R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, making
its point through warm fuzz-guitar tones, ethereal harmonies, vibraphones, horns,
and even the odd steel drum.”
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Band: AT THE DRIVE IN
Album: Relationship Of Command
Their 3rd. #33 in the UK,
#116 in the US.
BBC Music: “Mesmerising. A statement of
grand intent that could never be followed.”
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JOSH HOMME About The Main Goal Of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE For The Future
13 September 2024
Great call.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Cancel All Remaining 2024 Concerts Due To Sickness Of Frontman JOSH HOMME
QOTSA Chief JOSH HOMME About IGGY POP
21 July 2024
Josh about Iggy.
Poster This – QOTSA In Canada 2008
Great concert posters from the past
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3 May 2008
Feel good band of the Summer.