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carnavoyeur · 7 months
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Josh: And that’s why he’s my favorite.
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serpentineandblack · 11 months
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Queens of the Stone Age
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holochromatic · 9 months
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qotsa // diy
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laueana · 3 months
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dancastanho Fun and sexy
Josh Homme and Michael Shuman at Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY, August 12, 2023
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veronicabacardi · 11 days
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JOSHUA 🖤
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I have a few things to tell him🫠
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heehawkins · 9 months
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thebowerypresents · 8 months
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Queens of the Stone Age Keep Rock Alive on Saturday Night at Forest Hills Stadium
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Queens of the Stone Age – Forest Hills Stadium – August 12, 2023
It was a fitting match for the old tennis grounds of Forest Hills, the Queens of the Stone Age in the heart of Queens. Saturday night brought along its summer best calm-before-the-storm weather, frontman (and rock elder statesman) Josh Homme giving the gathering crowd a queen-like wave, with a new gray beard that comes to a fine point. The greeting followed a welcoming kickoff run-through of the now classic “No One Knows,” the buoyancy of its impish guitar riffs setting the stage for the performance to come. 
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It's hard to position Homme’s charisma without pointing out how lacking it is from other rock bands, especially of late. The man is equal parts performer and musician, as apparent as ever on “Smooth Sailing,” Homme channeling the song’s lurching drive and launching an angular guitar solo as if he were wrestling a snake. The stop-and-start drive of “My God Is the Sun” felt like someone driving a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake. With wind gusts picking up around the same time, the thick smoke coming from machines was pulled into a tight breeze running across the stage. “Sometimes you love and sometimes you lose, and that’s OK,” said Homme, introducing “Emotion Sickness,” off their latest, In Times New Roman…. The tune put all three guitarists to work with dueling guitar riffs and three-part harmonies. 
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The best Queens of Stone Age songs come with heel-turn shifts in momentum. “If I Had a Tail” began pop-flavored before getting sucked into a noise-rock black hole. On “I Sat by the Ocean” Homme pulled out a glass slide, making it sound syrupy. The band’s current iteration is thick with guitar heavy hitters — and put to good use: A breakdown at the end of “The Way You Used to Do” sounded Allman Brothers-eque with guitars doubling up on each other and harmonizing. Homme polled the audience to see which new song, “Made to Parade” or “Time & Place,” they preferred, with the former eking out the win. It featured some of his best soloing of the night, hard to believe it was left to audience democracy on whether it would be played. The slow-burning QOTSA classic “Better Living Through Chemistry” followed, pausing before dropping and plowing through a final path of destruction. Next, the hard-hitting new single “Paper Machete” served as something of a resurrection.
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Homme conducted a sensual sing-along for “Make It wit Chu,” having groups of the audience trade off the chorus before blues-riffing the song to a climax. “We’re not doing a fake encore where we make you clap for us, we want to stay out here with you,” he said. Forgoing the traditional encore, Queens of the Stone Age remained for three more: After “Little Sister” and “Go with the Flow,” the frontman offered, “Wait ’til you see what we have for you” as an introduction to “A Song for the Dead.” It brings such a relentless take-no-prisoners momentum, one would think the band would have welcomed a break to catch a sip of water before launching into the finale. One would also hope this song is exactly what dying feels like, with the brain spilling out every feel-good chemical it has as it sends the soul through an all-encompassing tunnel of sound and light. With the stage lights barraging the venue with flashes of white, the track deteriorating into noisy guitar feedback, it was a perfect end to the show. Rock ain’t dead — and even if it’s dying, being near death happens to sound fucking awesome. —Dan Rickershauser | @D4nRicks
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Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | @Silvia_Saponaro
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lullabies2paralyze · 6 months
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this was actually me a lot of people don't know that
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foolsmoontarot · 5 months
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Lily James and Michael Shuman have reportedly broken up again. Any chance of them getting back together? What does the tarot say?
9 of pentacles, page of wands. both indicate a yes.
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carnavoyeur · 5 months
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Queens of the Stone Age - Straight Jacket Fitting @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre x & x
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mileskane: Happy Monday Folks! Tomorrow night at sea bright arms in hackney debuting your new favourite debut. First come first served. “BOOGIE MAN” 🐢🐢XX 📸 @shotbyphox
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bristolvinylguy · 9 months
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Ain't It A Little Strange?-In Times New Roman… By Queens Of The Stone Age: Album Review, By Joe Guatieri
Introduction
6 years is a very long time.. I’ll just go out on a limb and say it, ‘Villains’ is a decent record but it was a big disappointment. That was the first Queens album that came out where I was a massive fan of theirs and I came out of it feeling indecisive and confused like something was missing. There were a few fantastic songs on that album but it wasn’t without its misfires too. It made the record in-turn spotty and the production didn’t help either. Things felt so controlled under the guidance of Mark Ronson, sure beats are great but what matters truly is feeling. 
When least expected, suddenly the barn doors burst open wide and standing there are the members of Queens Of The Stone Age. Josh, Mikey, Jon, Dean and Troy are all battered and bruised but have another point to prove. 
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Obscenery
‘In Times New Roman…’ opens up with weird guitar panning and sporadic bass. A strutting, blues-esque number that feels like it's at battle with life itself. The de-tuned choir sounds like the world around you is falling apart and you can’t help to think that maybe this was always going to happen anyway.
Paper Machete
This I think is the most conventional that Queens get on this record but they subvert it in their own special way which is wholly unique to them. Slabbering it with weirdness in terms of the production methods and instrumental moments. The guitar riff in this song sounds so driving and never lets up for a second, the key to this song is the little upstroke break.  It makes for a lovely addition and keeps things from going stale. Last but by no means least, the best solo on a Queens song in years takes place here, bringing back that drunken stumble that I love so much. It feels like Little Sister’s ugly cousin who’s locked downstairs in the basement. 
Carnavoyeur
I can’t believe what I’m going to say here but this song is an absolute epic in every sense of the word. At first it brings the atmosphere and puts you into a word of darkness with what seems like a sense of lost hope. Then all of a sudden from 0:56 to 1:10 I hear a beautiful vocal motif paired with these gorgeous lyrics from Josh, they sound so elegant in an almost heavenly type of way. Directly afterwards I hear the lyrics “Accept, enjoy the view. When there’s nothing I can do, I smile” this leads into a victorious solo of paired guitars that just soar in the sky. This is like the hopeful Son compared to A Song For The Deaf's god-fearing Dad. These moments of pure elegance and bliss happen again once more towards the end of the song. It is followed by an outro featuring both a furious drum roll and a bass over modulating to the point where everything in the track distorts at the climax. It feels like the rattling of chains before being set free and running towards the sunset. This song is not only its own world, it’s its own movie too. I have no other words than, this song is a masterpiece. 
Emotion Sickness
The song that made me feel ecstatic about this album coming out.  The introduction has Josh walking into a room whilst singing a vocal mantra, (maybe something to keep him going throughout after all the shit he’s been through). It sticks with me and I find it to be a very endearing moment before the song strikes at you like a viper. This song shows Queens at their catchiest on this record and only in a way that they can, subverting expectations throughout. Using these off-kilter syncopated sections, guitars sounding like horns and Josh showing that he has no fucks to spear as the band go into a beautiful chorus. I love this song so much, it’s just kickass.
Straight Jacket Fitting
Another heavy bluesy number that brings a lot of light to its name. The groove on this is impeccable as Josh sings about trying to help a partner that he’s losing hope with at a rapid rate. I think that this song ends metaphorically, with both of these people falling apart and being put into their own straight jackets and as they are pulled away, the band play them off. Then it ends with this fitting lovely little acoustic section. Again like I said previously about another song, this song is also like a play or a movie to me showing what it’s like when two people go crazy in different directions. 
Other Positives To Note: 
-The Rhythm Section (Bass/Mikey and Drums/Jon): Mikey and Jon have both got standout performances on this record. They are both at their absolute peak of talent and creativity. Always playing something that catches my ear and makes me think “what the fuck was that”. Mikey has some killer bass lines and grooves going on here, a particular highlight to me on the album for him is Time & Place. The song to me is like the Queens take on a Talking Heads song and he serves the song very well with his funky rhythm. 
-The production: Masterful work here, very reminiscent of when Chris Goss was at the helm of it all with Josh. It’s clear and has a lot of snarl and bite. It’s all over the place in the best possible way. Always finding something intriguing that catches my ears. So many different styles come together here but no matter how much they change are always a benefit to the heart of the songs, bringing them forwards.
-The Vocals: Some of the performances here are right up there with the best in their catalogue. Josh’s vocals have only gotten better with age and feel so fitting here with the topics at hand. He gets right to the heart of the emotions that he’s been holding onto for so long. Again like with many other things on this album, there are a variety of different styles at play here and they all mesh well together to wrap a nice bow on top of the album.
Negatives:
-What the Peephole Say is good but has a very weird track placement I think, when it comes off the heels of Carnavoyeur. Just feels like an unnecessary change of pace, I feel like it would have  better placement earlier on in the record at something like at tracks 4 or 5 and replaced with Made to Parade. 
-Some of the lyrics don’t connect with me as much as others do. There are some misses here but I think that overall it’s a great package.
Conclusion
‘In Times New Roman…’ takes a little piece from every Queens record that came before it and marries that with a sense of vulnerability. To create a puzzle of progression altogether that values the old but comes out with the new, constructing a bridge that leads to an undiscovered forest full of ideas. Overall, this is one of the best return to forms that I think a band can have. There’s not a bad song on here and they are pushing the boundaries of their craft to its absolute limit. This album is a concise listen which bears its soul for everyone to see. I give it a very strong 8.5 out of 10.
R.I.P Mark Lanegan
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laueana · 5 months
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Stephen McCauley: It seemed to really change the dynamic of the band when you joined because the lineup had changed quite frequently in the years leading up to that but when you joined, that seemed to lock something in place. Why do you think that was? Michael Shuman: Good people. It's not just about the music, it's about being around people that you love and that you want to spend time with. So I think, Josh being our leader, realized he wanted to put this thing together and he found the right pieces. Cause we're like a family, man. We vacation together, we hang out with our kids together, I don't have kids but I hang out with their kids. I think that's the most important part, I think that's why it's lasted so long.
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hypermotorsport · 1 year
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veronicabacardi · 4 months
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QOTSA 🔥
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