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“They just risk everything – every song starts from a point of absolutely no safety net”: Queens of the Stone Age engineer and producer Robert Adam Stevenson on working with Josh Homme, Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and recording a very '80s Taylor Hawkins

By Andy Jones published 9 March 24

Interview: Since his own band broke up, Stevenson has taken the producer/engineer route, diving straight into the LA music scene and recording its biggest stars

Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age plays Riot Fest 2023 in Chicago

“We are the most difficult simple band. I’ve often heard guys coming up to us saying, ‘You guys are just playing barre chords!’ I am glad you think it is that simple!”– Troy Van Leeuwen on QOTSA's musical illusions and gear secrets

By Jonathan Horsley published 23 December 23

Best of 2023: Troy Van Leeuwen checks in from The End Of Nero Tour to talk fuzz favourites, filling in for Dave Navarro in Jane's Addiction, and why no one pedal alone can recreate Queens Of The Stone Age's guitar tone

QOTSA drummer John Theodore playing Ludwig Classic Maple

"Now it's like one big giant robot made of everybody": Queens of the Stone Age's Jon Theodore on adapting to QOTSA's drumming alumni, a decade in the band and In Times New Roman…

By Stuart Williams published 14 November 23

The QOTSA drummer talks In Times New Roman…rediscovering wood drums and firing Dave Grohl's Song For The Dead drum intro into space

Unlock Josh Homme’s QOTSA tones with the Skeleton Key, the new £99 drive pedal from Funny Little Boxes

By Jonathan Horsley published 29 August 23

Is this the pedalboard solution that Queens Of The Stone Age fans have been waiting for?

Learn the riff to No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age

By Total Guitar published 15 June 23

We get some rules to follow

Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reveals he had surgery for cancer

By Jonathan Horsley published 13 June 23

Homme said he had a successful procedure in 2022 and he is “extremely thankful” that he’ll recover. Meanwhile, QOTSA share new track Carnavoyeur

Funny Little Boxes has revealed its £99 follow-up to the 1991 overdrive pedal and QOTSA / Josh Homme fans are going to want one

By Rob Laing published 26 May 23

"There was no such key to easily unlock the QOTSA guitar sound – but there is now that we have made one", its designer says of Skeleton Key

Josh Homme says Billy Gibbons once played a harmonic with his beard

By Jonathan Horsley published 4 March 22

The QOTSA frontman was jamming with Gibbons when the ZZ Top legend's whiskers created guitar history: “I grabbed him by the shoulders... ‘Dude, you did the first ever beard harmonic!’”