The New QotSA Bio Was Written By Chef Anthony Bourdain
Yep. Chef Bourdain is now a rock’n’roll biographer for Matador Records, the label that’s going to distribute Like Clockwork. Strange, yes, but then again, he’s one of Josh Homme’s heroes. It starts like this:
It came from the desert.
What “it” was, exactly, is still a matter of debate. Are Queens of the Stone Age a band? An association? A concept? The intermittent issue of an unhinged Carlo Von Sexron? The toxic byproduct of other bands? A variously shrinking and expanding group of friends and likeminded visitors? Or a secret society?
Whatever kind of strange and terrible mutation slouched out of the irradiated California wasteland in 1996, it’s evidently still around. It lives. It breathes. It can’t be stopped.
…LIKE CLOCKWORK is the first QOTSA album since 2007’s ERA VULGARIS and, according to its founder and only identifiable constant, Josh Homme, “ …like clockwork’ was the only thing that didn’t happen.”
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