Queens of the Stone Age

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Funny Little Boxes Skeleton Key pedal
Funny Little Boxes Skeleton Key review – Josh Homme’s Queens of the Stone Age tones in a box?

By Stuart Williams Published

The Skeleton Key is an op-amp distortion pedal that claims to hold the secret to Josh Homme’s guitar sound – but whatever you do, don’t tell anyone. We’re keeping this to ourselves, right?

Effects & Pedals
Troy Van Leeuwen and Billy Gibbons
“Billy Gibbons brought some off-brand amp simulator to the studio. We heard him playing through this thing and it was like, ‘Wow! It sounds like f**kin’ Billy Gibbons!’” Troy Van Leeuwen might have just proven beyond doubt that tone truly is in the hands

By Matt Owen Published

The Queens of the Stone Age guitarist recalls a studio visit from the ZZ Top icon, and in doing so provides yet more evidence in favor of the ‘tone is in the hands’ argument

Guitarists
Funny Little Boxes Skeleton Key pedal
Josh Homme’s “core tone with the minimum of fuss”: this UK-made pedal sounds like Queens of the Stone Age and looks like it, too – thanks to exclusive Boneface artwork

By Matt Parker Published

The Skeleton Key is a QOTSA-flavored collab from Funny Little Boxes and Let’s Play All – best known as the masterminds behind the acclaimed 1991 pedal

Effects & Pedals
Josh Homme playing guitar live
Josh Homme reveals cancer diagnosis

By Matt Owen Published

The Queens of the Stone Age frontman said that surgery to remove the cancer was successful

Artists
Nili Brosh
This week's essential guitar tracks: alt-rock heroes return and a virtual metal band team up with a thrash legend

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen, Matt Parker Published

Unmissable new cuts from Queens of the Stone Age, Nili Brosh, Alex Skolnick, Black Stone Cherry, Tash Sultana, Asking Alexandria and… Dolly Parton?!

Music Releases
Dean Fertita
Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertita announces solo project Tropical Gothclub, gets wild with the guitar for lead single Wheels Within Wheels

By Matt Owen Published

The multi-instrumentalist's debut solo LP will arrive November 4 via Jack White's Third Man Records

Music Releases
Robert Fripp (left) and Toyah Wilcox
Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Queens of the Stone Age's No One Knows

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Fripp channels his inner Josh Homme in the latest of his and his wife's freewheeling Sunday Lunch covers

Music Releases
(from left) Andrew Watt, Chris Chaney, Josh Homme, Taylor Hawkins and Chad Smith jam at Malibu Elementary School
Watch Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age members jam on classic rock standards at all-star benefit concert

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Taylor Hawkins, Chris Chaney, Chad Smith, Danny Carey, Andrew Watt, Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen came together for a loose, one-off performance at Malibu Elementary School

Concert, Gigs & Tours
Josh Homme
Restraining order filed against Josh Homme by his family

By Matt Owen Published

Homme has denied the claims through his lawyer Susan Wiesner, who labeled the allegations as “spurious”

Artists
Josh Homme
Josh Homme reveals the “secret weapon” behind his Queens of the Stone Age tone: Peavey's tiny Decade practice amp

By Matt Owen Published

The surprising piece of gear was also used to record the mammoth basslines on the band’s hit track, No One Knows

Artists
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