Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme on healthy evolution and new song Easy Street
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme discusses the band's evolution and their new, mellow single 'Easy Street'. The article reflects on Homme's 30-year career and his shift toward personal honesty and artistic risk-taking.
Why it matters
It highlights the longevity and creative reinvention of a major modern rock act, providing insight into the artistic process of a significant cultural figure.
Queens of the Stone Age are returning to tour Australia after releasing mellow new single Easy Street. ( Supplied: Andreas Neumann )
Link copied Share Share article After 30 years fronting Queens of the Stone Age, one of modern rock's most popular and interesting bands, Josh Homme has arrived at an unexpected place: peace.
You can hear it in Easy Street, a mellow curveball that sounds nothing like the desert-hewn riffs and hard, rhythmic swagger that's made QOTSA among the most visceral, vicious, sexiest things to ever happen to rock music .
It's a spacey sonic departure that finds calm in the quieter spaces that are overlooked in the band's catalogue.
"Oftentimes, probably largely by us more than anyone else," Homme tells Double J.
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