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"We had to push people to the side, whether gracefully or violently." The story behind Queens Of The Stone Age's masterpiece Songs For The Deaf

Released on August 27, 2002, Songs For The Deaf saw QOTSA anointed as the next “saviours of rock music”

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"Only badass mofos get to play in Queens Of The Stone Age." The story behind QOTSA's modern rock masterpiece Songs For The Deaf

“There are a lot of people who like heavy music but don’t want to listen to Creed or nu-metal"

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"Sometimes the occasional fool would break out a knife." From defining a genre to wild generator parties and the 90s metal reunion everyone's waiting for, Kyuss legend John Garcia looks back on his life

From Kyuss to Hermano, Slo Burn and Unida, John Garcia helped define a genre. Just don't call him a stoner metal legend.

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"There was that feeling of like, ‘Wait, are we breaking up?'" Why Dave Grohl walked out on Foo Fighters and joined Queens of the Stone Age in 2002

Frustrated with the recording of Foo Fighters' One by One sessions, Dave Grohl needed to let off some steam. Then he received a call from Josh Homme...

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“It was so heavy to lift as an 11-year-old”: Josh Homme’s first guitar amp wasn’t even a guitar amp

It was a choice that set the tone for a career full of left-field gear picks

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“All I need is insurmountable odds. Give me your worst guitar, an amp made in a garage and a pedal that’s not meant to be there. We’ve got something”: Josh Homme is finally ready to talk tone

From flea market finds to amps that aren’t amps at all, the Queens of the Stone Age mastermind has begun to reveal his tone secrets – starting with the little Peavey that could. The self-proclaimed shepherd of the weird explains why it’s time to share

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“My wife brought the phone out and thought it was a prank call from Maynard from Tool! Nope – it was actually Lars!”: This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica –and not get the job

Metallica’s line-up could have looked very different today if Robert Trujillo hadn’t got the job

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“Josh Homme said, ‘Do you want to come over?’ I was like, ‘So, you want to do Kyuss, but no John Garcia?' I’m good.’ I was bitter, I guess": Scott Reeder on the last days of Kyuss, QOTSA and what he told James Hetfield after that Metallica audition

The veteran bassist enthuses about his Spinal Trap tribute album, his part in a James Hetfield lyric session and the heady days of desert rock

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"It's kind of a concept record, if the word ‘concept’ didn’t suck." Josh Homme and Dave Grohl spill the tea on Queens Of The Stone Age masterpiece Songs for the Deaf

QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf has just turned 23. This is the story behind a modern classic

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"I've actually talked about it a few times." After years of shooting down the idea, Josh Homme now says that a Kyuss reunion is "possible"

Could cult desert rock legends Kyuss rise again? Josh Homme offers fans a glimmer of hope

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“Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record

The tale of Josh Homme & co.’s excellent second album, which turns 25 this month, and how metal icon Rob Halford came to make a cameo on it.

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"My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll

Brant Bjork sharies his stories of desert rock, generator parties and why he never wanted Kyuss to be Metallica

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"Our label said, ‘You guys will be the next Metallica’, and that bummed me out." Stoner rock legend Brant Bjork on why he didn't want Kyuss to be megastars

Brant Bjork explains why he had no real interest in seeing pioneering stoner rockers Kyuss become the new Metallica

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“We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock

How cult stoner rock visionaries Kyuss made 1992’s classic Blues For The Red Sun

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"There are so many variations on the Sabbath influence and that is what keeps it exciting and evolving": How stoner rock sparked a musical revolution

The stoner rock scene that Kyuss made famous: Much like the 60s, if you remember it, were you really there?

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The Josh Homme albums you should definitely own

From Kyuss to Queens Of The Stone Age via Eagles Of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures and various hook-ups, Josh Homme's path through rock'n'roll is flecked with gold

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2ManyDJs on 20 accidental years of mashups and mayhem: ‘It’s more fun when it’s a little bit naughty’

Their album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2 kickstarted the mashup phenomenon. As they prepare for an anniversary concert, the Dewaele brothers discuss bootlegs, brotherhood and looking back

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