Queens Of The Stone Age

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, Greg Dulli, The Kills' Alison Mosshart, and Soulsavers will also join in on the the 60th birthday celebration of the late musician

A month after the band stated that frontman Josh Homme requires "essential medical care" for the remainder of 2024

Their festival dates have been cancelled while headline shows are postponed to 2025

As the duo re-release their self-titled debut, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher look back on rising to fame, befriending Queens Of The Stone Age, finding fans in Jimmy Page and Lars Ulrich, and why the record "doesn't feel like an old relic"

He has also stepped in for QOTSA at Way Out West and Syd For Solen

"The Homme family and QOTSA are so grateful for the outpouring of well wishes and kind understanding"

“One of the things that keeps you young is to have a good sense of humour”

It also comes as the band recently told NME that they have “some aces in some sleeves” 

It features an essay from Josh Homme and a previously unreleased collaboration with Beck

Sweden's Way Out West festival will play music from its acts live into a laboratory designed to fertilise sperm and eggs