Fuck Yeah Queens of the Stone Age

First Listen Live Tonight: Queens Of The Stone Age, '...Like Clockwork' : NPR

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:27:18 -0400

First Listen Live Tonight: Queens Of The Stone Age, '...Like Clockwork' : NPR:

Watch Queens live right now!!

gotcaughtintheplaid: 2008 Canadian tour artwork by Justin...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:23 -0400

gotcaughtintheplaid:

2008 Canadian tour artwork by Justin Hampton.

queenbandbabyduck: Tattooing right below this right now makes...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:34 -0400

queenbandbabyduck:

Tattooing right below this right now makes going to see @QOTSA play tonight that much more exciting! 😃

via Kat von D’s instagram.

misfitsoul: By Ross Halfin

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:38 -0400

misfitsoul:

By Ross Halfin

"In much the same way bands see themselves in This is Spinal Tap, no British journalist can watch..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:07 -0400

“In much the same way bands see themselves in This is Spinal Tap, no British journalist can watch Queens Of The Stone Age spoof documentary Secrets Of The Sound without a wince of recognition, particularly at hapless hack Matt Berry. “It really got to the bottom of how fuckining incredible Matt Berry is,” explains Josh Homme, Queens’ frontman and backbone, speaking to GQ from the bowels of a BBC studio in Maidstone. “It all started by he and I reading the bible to each other. He’s an Old Testament guy and I respect that. But really he can read directions to a toothbrush and I would listen.””

- Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age talking about Matt Berry in British GQ Magazine 5-22-13 (via marvelousmatt)

GQ: What do people still get wrong about your band?

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:01:04 -0400

GQ: What do people still get wrong about your band?
Josh Homme: I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that. I'm not politically correct, I never said I was. I made a lot of hard decisions in my life. Sometimes hard decisions have to be made and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all. You can't just avoid stuff that's necessary. What is that root of this record is that you can't run away. And what are you going to do about other people?

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serpentineandblack: Nothing like vinyl to start the morning off...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:01:16 -0400

serpentineandblack:

Nothing like vinyl to start the morning off right.

full-of-broken-thoughts: Josh Homme - Queens of the Stone Age

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:58 -0400

full-of-broken-thoughts:

Josh Homme - Queens of the Stone Age

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:00:48 -0400

represamisojos: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris[Triple...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:03 -0400

represamisojos:

Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

[Triple vinilo de 10”]

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:57 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:10 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:54 -0400

Time gentlemen, please

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:29 -0400

Time gentlemen, please:

liambrazier:

Here’s the entire animated short made entirely by Boneface, and myself handling making his great drawings move (with help from the nice noises you hear throughout, obviously).

A few insights from my perspective that may interest other animators, or those that have asked me on Twitter and the like about the making of the thing;

- Yes, not a frame of animation was completed before new years 2013, meaning everything, was done in a four month window before the album release. During this time I also got married and went away for two weeks on honeymoon.

- There is no actual ‘3D’ aside from some pieces of paper blowing in the wind. All camera pulls, focal changes, pans etc. where made with scaling, blurring, and judged by eye alone. This was a conscious decision to speed up rendering times.

- They were competed in order, shot one of I Appear Missing to the final shot of My God is the Sun. Mainly for our own sanity but also because of the chronological release dates of the videos.

- Due to the pace of creation Boneface would send over the shots as he drew them, as large layered PSD files, which I would set anchor points and rig and so on within After Effects.

- The first couple of videos were made on my 2010 MacBook Pro. I Appear Missing alone took sixty-eight hours to render.

- The initial videos were cut to unfinalised audio tracks. I didn’t hear the vocals to I Appear Missing until a few weeks before the rest of the world.

- If you happen to have been sitting within view on a flight from Bangkok to London around the start of April, apologies you had to watch me animate bloody bar fights on my airplane fold-down table for the entire journey. I bet your kids loved it.

- The final two videos - If I Had a Tail, and My God is the Sun were created in two weeks.

- It takes an eon to upload a fourteen gigabyte 1080p file to Dropbox on my internet connection.

- The crazy telephone teaser prank that went online prior to these animations was a very last minute thing dreamt up by the awesome PR types behind this whole Queens campaign. They’re a bit genius. And yes, that was my (distorted) voice on the end of the phone.

Feel free to ask any more questions you may have. My brain is still a bit fried from all the all-nighters but I’ll attempt to answer any I can!

Enjoy the animation, and of course the album.

gotcaughtintheplaid: 5.22.13 issue of NME

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:10 -0400

gotcaughtintheplaid:

5.22.13 issue of NME

Queens Of The Stone Age to live-stream Los Angeles show on May 23

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:19 -0400

Queens Of The Stone Age to live-stream Los Angeles show on May 23:

gotcaughtintheplaid:

QOTSA will play …Like Clockwork in its entirety before playing a selection of songs from past albums.

eminoraddnine: the four horsemen of …Like Clockwork the end...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:02 -0400

eminoraddnine:

the four horsemen of …Like Clockwork

the end is really fucking nigh

liveshades: Queens Of The Stone Age | If Only

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:47 -0400

liveshades:

Queens Of The Stone Age | If Only