Music | Feature
Dave Kerr: Last issue we got to know Them Crooked Vultures and learned all about their extensive touring plans for the year - very good. But what the hell happen...
Dave Kerr: When an unannounced act calling themselves Them Crooked Vultures started hovering around European festival tents at high noon this summer, spectators ...
Records | Album Review
Stephen Toman: What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Gr...
Chris Buckle: It’s natural that Jack White has dominated discussions of the Dead Weather. With two bands already under his command, the unveiling of a new blu...
Music: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Title: The Century of Self (Richter Scale) Release Date: 23 February Trail of Dead were one of the few...
Records | Single Review
Chris Buckle: Considering Jubilee is fronted by Aaron North - formerly of LA noiseniks The Icarus Line and industrial digi-rockers Nine Inch Nails - and completed b...
Music | Live Review
Darren Carle: Much like the Tin Man, there's a pleasing mechanical veneer to the Queens tonight, though you have to wonder what's making them tick. Aptly, Misfit Lo...
Johnny Langlands: It pains me to type it: but lamenting the Queens of old could become the way of the future. The combination of Josh Homme's devil-tongued cool, Nick O...
Sounds: 5. Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (Polydor)It's never easy on the ego when the fruits of your labour take a kicking. That probably count...
Dave Kerr: After a mixed reception to 2005's Oliveri-less sequel to the impeccable modern rock n' roll grandeur that was Songs For the Deaf, time could spell red...
Dave Kerr: "It's kinda hard to say. You're right, that's a wanky question," scoffs Troy Van Leeuwen.Interrogating a known sharp wit about the "evolution" of the ...
Johnny Langlands: It's ja-ja jakka ja-ja, jakka ja ja ja jaaaow, and there's not much doubt that Josh Homme has just given himself wanker's cramp in a heartbeat with th...
Dave Kerr: Lights flicker, drums sizzle and the opening chords to No One Knows jerk into action. Wait… it's just the synthetic racket of a polyphonic ring...