(Not) Holiday Music

Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister

OK, OK, I know we're always striving to introduce you to music you've never heard before, and that is unsigned, or on a little indie label, but sometimes I want to post something that just rocks and maybe you have heard it before.

QOTSA for example - Yes, they're on a major label (Interscope), and at this point they're just about as well known as their current tour-mates, Nine Inch Nails. But again, that doesn't mean they aren't awesome, and it doesn't mean that they're not as good because they're not indie. The fact that they made it to a major label on the strength of their first album is remarkable. They've now had three studio albums released by Interscope, as well as this new double-disc Live CD & DVD Over The Years And Through The Woods: a full length concert recorded and filmed in London at Koko and the Brixton Academy, that features songs from their entire catalogue, including the hyperbizarre Desert Sessions, as well as a handful of songs from earlier tours and other fun behind-the-scenes goodies - the most enjoyable of which might be a SXSW performance from the early 90s, where they're dressed like ordinary early 90s dudes (you know, like Chandler on Friends - yikes!)...

The lineup of QOTSA has changed with every record and tour over the years, but the man in charge, Josh Homme (Craig Kilborn's bigger, meaner-looking doppleganger) has remained on the lunatic fringe (read up on the Desert Sessions then try to tell me he's not crazy) and continues to write catchy, psychedelic, stoner-metal-influenced tunes through it all. Anyway, if not for the fact that the band still rocks, I'd be turned off by their Grammy nominations, the fact that they're playing shows with the likes of the freakin' Rolling Stones this spring, etc. etc. But what can I say? They really just rock. Hard.

Buy Over The Years And Through The Woods from the band's music store or from Amazon and enjoy the show.