With a revolving cast of motley, gnarled rockers, Josh Homme led Queens of the
Stone Age on a pounding stomp through a heavy haze of blues rock and
psychedelia. Built around thundering jams and driving riffs, their sound
emanates from their spiritual home at the Rancho de la Luna recording studio in
Joshua Tree, California, where the dusty heat of the desert and the narcotic air
of punk blends into meaty rock & roll.
Formed by Homme after the demise of his former band Kyuss, early albums 'Queens
of the Stone Age' (1998) and 'Rated R' (2000) quickly earned the tag "stoner
roc...