Guardian Music — Texan festival is known for making or breaking actsA roster of new acts hoping to export their British brand of music to big-spending audiences across the Atlantic are heading to the Texas city of Austin this week to play their hearts out in bar-room... more info

Guardian Music — As they reissue their hard-to-find debut album, QOTSA frontman Josh Homme recalls the inspiration behind a cult classicThe first Queens record is iconic for us. Each album is a different marker on our path, but this is the one that started it all. It... more info

DrownedInSound — Recalls a time when to see a band list Queens Of The Stone Age as an influence wouldn’t have told you they were going to be shit, as it now does. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Altsounds — Born in 2007 and formed by Amo & Nassos, *Blister. (http://www.myspace.com/blisterbelgium)* is a power trio started by covering some rock standards. But very soon, the band composed its own songs and led them into a mix of stoner-rock like Queens ... more info

The Music Fix — God save the Queen - QOTSA re-release their long forgotten classic. more info

Nialler9 — The upcoming remastered re-release (with three extra tracks of course) is a good enough excuse to post this. Straight-up no-messing stoner rock from the Queens. The natural bridge from Kyuss to where they are now, minus founding member and all. This ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Josh Homme’s label Rekords Rekords (website tagline: "starting a revolution against shitty rock") have teamed up with Domino to market and promote selected titles from the former’s catalogue. Thankfully they’ve decided to start with some of Hom... more info

NME — Album to be re-released on March 7 with three extra tracks more info

Gigwise — For band's UK and Ireland tour... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE once performed an emergency appendectomy on a female fan in Germany, according to the band's guitarist TROY VAN LEEUWEN.The group had just finished a concert in Munich when Leeuwen and his bandmates were called upon to... more info