Metal Injection — This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that I was excited about, but what did drop, dropped hard. Well three of them were exciting anyway. It's all about quality over qua... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — How many major contemporary rock bands are we down to in America? A couple dozen, maybe? That's the desert-dry landscape that Queens of the Stone Age returns to with "… Like Clockwork," and fortunately it does everything a good rock record should â... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — It's about time. And about time. After six long years, QOTSA commandant Josh Homme returns older, wiser and armed with his most revealing and rewarding album to date more info

USA Today Music — New music from LeAnn Rimes, George Benson and Queens of the Stone Age. more info

Consequence of Sound — Dark times and personal struggles result in stark heroism. more info

411 Mania — Josh Homme wanted to make something real... more info

DrownedInSound — Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. For Josh Homme, formidable leader of Queens of the Stone Age, however, his album six has been his toughest yet. In fact, Like Clockwork, alm... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — '... Like Clockwork' is the band's first album since 2007. Credit Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl and Elton John with helping Homme overcome personal crises.Up in a third-floor dressing room at the Wiltern, Joshua Homme is drinking Mexican beer and struggli... more info

411 Mania — Frontman explains his theories around solos... more info

411 Mania — Does Metallica's Through the Never look better than other 3D concert films? What did we think of Queens of the Stone Age's ...Like Clockwork? Will AEG Live lose their civil trial over Michael Jackson's death? 411's Joseph Lee and Jeremy Thomas answer... more info