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So you release THE rock record of the year 2000. You
lay waste to the globe and take festivals for your own.
You have the feel good hit of the summer with ‘Feel
Good Hit Of The Summer’ and stir up a spatter of controversy
along the way. What do you do next? Well releasing THE
rock record of 2002 might be a logical option, yeah.
But Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri have only gone one better
and got THE rock drummer of his generation (and in the
top ten of all time, anyone?) and pinned him down to
their rotating drum-stool for the entire record.
So you’ll already know that Dave Grohl is back behind
the kit, which is quite frankly the only place he belongs.
Seeing them at Glastonbury this year, as part of their
‘yeah, just look at us’ jaunt through Europe’s festivals,
there was simply no denying that his arms are a force
of nature in themselves. If they were firing their ammunition
from some kind of desert grenade launcher last time
round with ‘Rated R’ then this time it’s some kind of
souped-up nuclear mutha of a metal ore cannon that NASA
would probably be advised to direct skyward to ward
off that fucking huge daddy of a meteorite that’s apparently
locked on a vague collision course with us.
The first mammoth pounds of the bass drum as they took
to the stage with ‘Feel Good Hit…’ flicked the shudder
button at the base of our spines and left us mesmerized
throughout. The new record then, ‘Songs For The Deaf’,
continues with their angular take on sprawling desert
rock, only more so. We can’t remember too many songs
specifically – it was Glastonbury and for our expected
state of mind we should be excused – but we can remember
the ambition contained within each and every new song
we heard. And of course the gravel-pit-in-Hades vocals
of Mark Lanegan hardly went unnoticed either. Kyuss?
But a memory.
You don’t need to wait till it’s release on August 26
to find out if we speak the truth. Crud has exclusive
access to a ‘Songs For The Deaf’ sampler which will
keep refreshing with different tracks off the record
up till its release, along with some live footage of
the band’s unveiling at the Troubadour Club in LA earlier
this year. So don’t forget to keep checking back for
changes.
Sampler below:
Relevant sites:
www.qotsa.com
James Berry for Crud Magazine© 2002
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| 04/02 1 Giant Leap - My Culture
04/02 Elfpower Interview - Andrew Rieger - Creatures
04/02 Frou Frou Interview - Guy Sigsworth/Imogen Heap
04/02 Gomez Interview - Ian Ball
04/02 Idlewild - Live - London Astoria
04/02 K's Choice Interview
04/02 Leaves - Live - Camden Dingwall
04/02 Longwave Interview - Exit
04/02 Lucy Mongrel Interview
04/02 Oasis - The Hindu Times
04/02 Phantom Planet - Interview
04/02 Unwritten Law - Interview
04/02 VUE - Coordinates Interview
05/02 BRMC - LIve - Kentish Town, London
05/02 Breeders - Title K
05/02 FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
05/02 Moco - Live - London Monarch
05/02 Need New Body - Interview
05/02 The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Live - Soundhause, Northampton
05/02 The Bellrays - Meet The Bellrays
06/02 Fleadh Festival - Finsbury Park
06/02 Frou Frou Coordinates Interview
06/02 Incubus - Interview - Mark Einziger
06/02 North Mississippi Allstars - Interview
06/02 Papa Roach - She Loves Me Not
06/02 Proud Mary - Live - Northampton, Soundhaus
06/02 Pulp - Live - Sherwood Pines, Edwinstowe
06/02 Reindeer section - You Are My Joy
06/02 Silverchair - Diorama
|  | 06/02 Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window
06/02 Soinc Youth - Interview
06/02 The Burn - The Smiling Face
06/02 The Coral - Live - Roadmender, Northampton
06/02 The LIbertines - Live - The Social, Nottingham
06/02 The Vines, Sheffield Leadmill
06/02 Trik Turner - Interview
06/02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live, Soundhaus, Northampton
07/02 12 Stones Interview
07/02 Arolo -Interview
07/02 Buy To Let Doncaster - Anti Social Behaviour
07/02 Cassius - Interview
07/02 Farrah - Interview
07/02 Glassjaw - Interview
07/02 Neil Michael Haggerty - Interview
07/02 Hoobastank - Running Away
07/02 Leaves - Interview
07/02 LL Cool Jay Interview
07/02 Oasis - Live - Finsbury Park, London
07/02 Polyphonic Spree - Live - Camden Monarch
07/02 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
07/02 Super Furry Animals - Interview
07/02 The Beatings - Live - Metro Club London
07/02 The Bellrays + The D4 - Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street London
January 2001
July - August 2001
September - October 2001
November - December 2001
January - March 2002
April - July 2002
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