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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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Watch Queens Of The Stone Age perform Auto Pilot with their former bassist Nick Oliveri

Queens Of The Stone Age joined onstage by Nick Oliveri for first time since 2014

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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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"Guns in the house means it becomes a hostage situation." This is what happened when a Los Angeles SWAT team swooped on ex-Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri - and the stand-off that followed

The former QOTSA bassist faced a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years

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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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“Of course it was gonna be a hit! This song is one of the few tracks from that period of the Noughties that really is original. It’s got a super distinctive sonic signature”: Inside the making of a Queens Of The Stone Age classic

A genius riff from Josh Homme and drumming heroics from his buddy Dave Grohl

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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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10 brilliant but overlooked rock and metal albums you need to hear from 2000

The year 2000 gave us massive releases from Deftones, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but these 10 albums flew under the radar

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“I doubt our detractors would have the balls to do what we’ve done. You have to humble yourself at the altar of rock’n’roll”: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme rose above the chaos to make Lullabies To Paralyze

The chaos, confusion and righteous vision of Queens Of The Stone Age and Josh Homme

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“There was some smoking and drinking but it wasn’t a lot of drugs. We weren’t coked out of our minds or shooting heroin”: The epic story of Kyuss, the stoner metal visionaries who blazed brightly and burnt out

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“We had so much fun recording Rated R and Songs for the Deaf. We’d do mushrooms, and the next day, we’d be drinking. We’d be being creative, wild and crazy – that led to some great moments”: Nick Oliveri on Queens of the Stone Age's “definitive” era

The veteran bassist discusses the state of his relationship with Josh Homme, the nerves that almost derailed the first Kyuss shows –and whether or not he’d rejoin QOTSA

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“We peaked out. You had Dave Grohl on drums, Mark Lanegan on vocals, I'm on bass and Josh is on guitar and vocals. It's kind of hard to do better, you know?” Nick Oliveri on why Queens of the Stone Age will never top their Songs for the Deaf lineup

The Mondo Generator bassist also reveals whether he would ever consider rejoining QOTSA

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Desertfest 2024 review: sludge, thrash and hair-raising volume at London’s stoner rock gathering

Masters Of Reality, Suicidal Tendencies and Godflesh lead a surprisingly eclectic lineup for the annual desert rock weekender

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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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"The Breeders, Hole, Sonic Youth, The Smashing Pumpkins all had female bass players. That was definitely an inspiration": When Melissa Auf Der Maur went solo

From the Archive: Melissa Auf Der Maur on gear, grunge and the fine art of going solo

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