Here’s our interview with Sweethead, featuring Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens Of The Stone Age, Eddie Nappi of Handsome / Enemy, Norm Block of Plexi, and fronted by a vixen named Serrina Sims, who we first spotted onstage at the Natasha Shneider Memorial concert last year. Full Article »

Last Wednesday we headed into Hollywood for the New Tales To Tell album release party at Space 15 Twenty. New Tales To Tell is a grand tribute to Love & Rockets, featuring Puscifer, Blaqk Audio, The Dandy Warhols, Sweethead, The Flaming Lips, and about twenty other bands. Full Article »

Sweethead has arrived, in a Cadillac, well dressed with a Jack & Coke in hand. The band is fronted by the bona-fide vixen Serrina Sims, and driven by Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen. Full Article »

At several occasions over the past few months, various people who I associate with, whom one could consider attached to the local LA music scene- but not too attached, because then they’d be far too weird for me to deal with- made reference to some sort of “Buddyhead” thing that they would “see me at.”

When people who talk a lot say things I don’t understand, such as “see you at the Buddyhead thing,” I tend to just kinda filter it out, reasoning that if it’s really that important or interesting, I’ll hear it again and again until I’m finally motivated to Google it or whatever. Social Darwinism. And this was the case with the Buddyhead thing. Full Article »

Queens Of The Stone Age lost a very close personal friend on July 2nd. Natasha Shneider, from the band Eleven, died of cancer. She had joined QOTSA along with partner Alain Johannes for most (if not all) of the Lullabies To Paralyze tours, and showed up on many a Queens song, and many a Desert Sessions song. She was a beautiful woman, and a talented musician, who likely appears on more than one album you consider among your favorites of all time if you’re a regular here.

So Homme and Queens Of The Stone Age organized a concert to celebrate her life, inviting all of her friends; All proceeds to go to the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund. Tickets were $100 each, and the event sold out. Full Article »