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Queens Of The Stone Age: In Time New Roman…

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On June 16, 2023, “Matador” label released “In Times New Roman…”, the eighth Queens of the Stone Age studio album. It was recorded 2022 – 2023, at “Pink Duck” in Burbank, “Shangri-La” in Malibu, “Dumbfox Studios”, “Readymade Studios” in Paris, “The Tempermill” in Femdale, and was produced by Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman, Jon Theodore and Troy Van Leeuwen.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme – vocals, guitar, engineer
  • Dean Fertita – guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
  • Troy Van Leeuwen – guitar, lap steel, percussion, backing vocals
  • Michael Shuman – bass guitar keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jon Theodore – drums, percussion
  • Daphne Chen – violin
  • Eric Gorfain – violin
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Richard Dodd – cello
  • Nina McCoy – additional vocals
  • Sharetta Morgan-Harmon – additional vocals
  • Tenderlie Lavender – additional vocals
  • Matt Helders – additional vocals
  • Justin Smith – engineer
  • Robert Stevenson – engineer
  • Greg White – engineer assistant
  • Brendan Benson – additional engineering
  • David Feeny – additional engineering
  • Mark Rankin – engineer, mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Davey Latter – drum technician
  • Salar Rajabnik – guitar technician, keyboard technician
  • Wayne Faler – guitar technician, keyboard technician
  • Matt Zivich – guitar technician
  • Boneface – artwork

Track listing:

All lyrics by Josh Homme, all music by Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman, Jon Theodore and Troy Van Leeuwen.

  1. Obscenery
  2. Paper Machete
  3. Negative Space
  4. Time & Place
  5. Made to Parade
  6. Carnavoyeur
  7. What the Peephole Say
  8. Sicily
  9. Emotion Sickness
  10. Straight jacket Fitting

Queens Of The Stone Age: Rated R

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On June 6, 2000, “Interscope” label released “Rated R”, the second Queens of the Stone Age studio album. It was recorded December 1999 – March 2000, at “Sound City” in Van Nuys, California, and was produced by Chris Goss and Joshua Homme.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme – lead and backing vocals, guitars, piano, lead guitar, drums, percussion, mixing, concept
  • Nick Oliveri – lead and backing vocals, bass, guitar, percussion, concept, art conception
  • Gene Trautmann – drums
  • Dave Catching – piano, electric piano, lap steel guitar, guitar, 12-string guitar
  • Chris Goss – grand piano, noise piano, bass, percussion, backing vocals
  • Nick Lucero – drums, percussion
  • Barrett Martin – vibes, percussion, steel drum
  • Scott Mayo – baritone sax, horns
  • Fernando Pullum – flugelhorn, horns
  • Reggie Young – horns
  • Mark Lanegan – lead and backing vocals
  • Mike Johnson – backing vocals
  • Pete Stahl – backing vocals
  • Rob Halford – backing vocals
  • Nick Eldorado – backing vocals
  • Wendy Rae Fowler (Wendy Ray Moan) – backing vocals
  • Bradley Cook – engineer
  • Martin Schmelzle – engineer, sequencing, assembly
  • Trina Shoemaker – engineer, mixing
  • Dan Druff – guitar technician
  • Marek – noise, mixing
  • Robert Brunner – pre-production assistant
  • Francesca Restrepo – art direction

Track listing:

All tracks by Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri.

  1. Feel Good Hit of the Summer
  2. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
  3. Leg of Lamb
  4. Auto Pilot
  5. Better Living Through Chemistry
  6. Monsters in the Parasol – Josh Homme, Mario Lalli
  7. Quick and to the Pointless
  8. In the Fade (includes a reprise of Feel Good Hit of the Summer) – Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan
  9. Tension Head
  10. Lightning Song – Dave Catching
  11. I Think I Lost My Headache

Mark Lanegan

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On February 22, 2022, Mark William Lanegan died aged 57. He was musician (guitar, keyboards), singer and songwriter, member of the bands Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins, but was best known as member and lead singer of Screaming Trees. As leader he released eleven albums, and three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell, and two with Duke Garwood.

Queens of the Stone Age: Villians

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On August 25, 2017, “Matador” label released “Villains”, the seventh Queens of the Stone Age studio album. It was recorded January – March 2017 and was produced by Mark Ronson and Mark Rankin.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme– lead vocals, guitars
  • Troy Van Leeuwen– guitars, keys, backing vocals
  • Dean Fertita– keys, guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael Shuman – vocals, bass guitar
  • Jon Theodore– drums
  • James King– saxophone
  • The Section Quartet– strings
  • Nikka Costa– backing vocals
  • Matt Sweeney– backing vocals
  • Fred Martin – backing vocals
  • Tai Phillips – backing vocals
  • Faith Matovia – backing vocals
  • Mark Rankin– engineer
  • Wesley Seidman – engineer assistant
  • Justin Smith – engineer assistant
  • Caesar Edmunds – mixing
  • Alan Moulder– mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen– mastering
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Boneface – design, illustrations

Track listing:

All lyrics by Josh Homme, all music by Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Jon Theodore.

  1. Feet Don’t Fall me
  2. The Way You Used to Do
  3. Domesticated Animals
  4. Fortress
  5. Head Like a Haunted House
  6. Un-Reborn Again
  7. Hideaway
  8. The Evil Has Landed
  9. Villains of Circumstances

Queens Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris

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On June 12, 2007, “Interscope” label released “Era Vulgaris”, the fifth Queens of the Stone Age stone album. It was recorded July 2006 – April 2007, and was produced by Chris Goss and Joshua Homme.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme– lead and backing vocals, lead and acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, lap steel guitar, keyboard, electric piano, Rhodes piano, “badly tuned” piano, organ, percussion
  • Troy Van Leeuwen– keyboard, lead guitar , crazy delay” guitar, lap steel guitar, bass, the percussion part that’s a bitch, Moog, rhodes, backing vocals
  • Alain Johannes– bass, acoustic and counterpoint guitar, harmonic guitar, counterpoint fiddle, cig” fiddle, marxaphone, backing vocals
  • Chris Goss– keyboard, the chicken pluckin guitar, twinkley bits, organ, electric piano, bass, backing vocals
  • Joey Castillo– drums, percussion, percussion ball
  • Julian Casablancas– vocals, casio guitar
  • Serrina Sims, Brody Dalle-Homme, Liam Lynch– backing vocals
  • Mark Lanegan– harmony vocals
  • Alain Johannes − engineer
  • Alain Johannes, Joe Barresi− mixing
  • Justin Smith − mixing assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen − mastering
  • Jason Noto − design, illustrations

Track listing:

All tracks by Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo, except where noted.

  1. Turnin’ on the Screw
  2. Sick Sick Sick – Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo
  3. I’m Designer
  4. Into the Hollow
  5. Misfit Love
  6. Battery Acid
  7. Make It wit Chu – Joshua Homme, Alain Johannes, Melchiondo
  8. 3’s & 7’s
  9. Suture Up Your Future
  10. River in the Road
  11. Run, Pig, Run

Queens Of The Stone Age: Like Clockwork

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On June 3, 2013, “Matador Records” label released “…Like Clockwork”, the sixth Queens of the Stone Age album. It was recorded August 2012-March 2013, at “Pink Duck Studios” in Burbank, California, and was produced by Josh Homme, James Lavelle, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Feritta and Michael Shuman. The album cover art was by British artist Boneface. “NME” magazine ranked it at number 335 in its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme– lead vocals, guitar, slide guitar, glass,  shakers, piano, Moog synthesizer, Roland SH-201,drums,  percussion, air ,frog and looper, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar
  • Troy Van Leeuwen– guitar, backing vocals, Moog synthesizer, shakers,  handclaps, lap steel guitar, twelve-string guitar, drone guitar, Korg synthesizer, percussion, acoustic guitar,  twelve-string slide guitar
  • Dean Fertita– keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, glass, slide guitar, Moog and Korg synthesizers, Rhodes piano, Korg MS-10, clavinet
  • Michael Shuman– bass guitar, backing vocals, cymbals, tambourine, twelve-string guitar, Moog synthesizer, guitar, claves, shakers and handclaps, mellotron
  • Dave Grohl– drums, percussion
  • Joey Castillo– drums, percussion, handclaps
  • Nick Oliveri– backing vocals
  • Mark Lanegan– backing vocals
  • Trent Reznor– co-lead vocals, kick and snare, backing vocals
  • Jake Shears– backing vocals
  • Alex Turner– backing vocals
  • Elton John– backing vocals, piano
  • Jon Theodore– drums, percussion
  • Charlie May– piano
  • Philip Sheppard– strings arrangements
  • James Lavelle– arrangements
  • Mark Rankin– recording, mixing
  • Joe Barresi– mixing
  • Alain Johannes– additional engineering
  • Justin Smith – additional engineering
  • Gavin Lurssen– mastering
  • Boneface – design, illustrations
  • Liam Brazier – animations

Track listing:

All lyrics by Josh Homme; all music by Troy Van Leewen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Josh Homme,except where noted.

  1. Keep Your Eyes Peeled
  2. I Sat by the Ocean
  3. The Vampyre of Time and Memory
  4. If I Had a Tail
  5. My God Is the Sun
  6. Kalopsia
  7. Fairweather Friends – Mark Lanegan, Troy Van Leewen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman, Josh Homme
  8. Smooth Sailing
  9. I Appear Missing
  10. …Like Clockwork

Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf

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On August 27, 2002, “Interscope” label released “Songs for the Deaf”, the third Queens of the Stone Age studio album. It was recorded October–November 2001, March–June 2002, at “The Site” in San Rafael, California, “Conway Recording Studios”;“Barefoot” in Hollywood, and was produced by  Josh Homme, Adam Kasper and  Eric Valentine. “Songs for the Deaf” was certified Platinum in Europe by “IFPI”.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme – vocals, guitar
  • Mark Lanegan – vocals
  • Alain Johannes– e-bow, organ, piano, flamenco guitar, theremin, lap steel guitar
  • Natasha Shneider– e-bow, organ, piano, theremin
  • Nick Oliveri – vocals, bass
  • Dave Grohl– drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Gene Trautmann– drums
  • Dean Ween– guitar
  • Brendon McNichol– lead guitar
  • Chris Goss– guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
  • Paz Lenchantin– strings
  • Ana Lenchantin– strings
  • Molly McGuire– accordion
  • John Gove –horns
  • Kevin Porter – horns
  • Brad Kintscher – horns
  • Chris Goss- recording, production assistant
  • Alain Johannes– recording
  • Brian Gardner – mastering
  • Dan Druff– guitar technician
  • Hutch– sound technician
  • Bob Brunner “Mates” – pre-production

Track listing:

All tracks by Joshua Homme and Nick Oliveri, except where noted.

  1. The Real Song for the Deaf
  2. You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire – Josh Homme, Mario Lalli
  3. No One Knows – Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan
  4. First It Giveth
  5. A Song for the Dead – Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan
  6. The Sky Is Fallin’
  7. Six Shooter
  8. Hangin’ Tree – Josh Homme, Alan Johannes
  9. Go With the Flow
  10. Gonna Leave You
  11. Do It Again
  12. God is in the Radio
  13. Another Love Song
  14. A Song for the Deaf” (Contains a hidden outtake version of “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” with all lyrics replaced with manic laughter.) – Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan
  15. Mosquito Song