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02-14-2004, 08:41 PM
Didn't see this piece of news posted anywhere, so here goes...
http://199.249.170.183/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2089251
Edited By Jonathan Cohen. February 12, 2004, 2:10 AM ET
Update: Oliveri, Lanegan Exit Queens Of The Stone Age
Updating a story posted this morning, in an unexpected turn of events, Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri and vocalist Mark Lanegan have exited the California-based rock act. Oliveri and QOTSA frontman Josh Homme have been friends since high school and played together in revered underground rock combo Kyuss before joining forces in Queens, but their relationship has apparently become irretrievably strained in recent months.
"Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri have recently parted ways," reads a statement from an Interscope spokesperson. "A number of incidents occurring over the last 18 months have led to the decision that the two can no longer maintain a working partnership in the band. The Queens, continuing under frontman Josh Homme, will begin work on a new album this spring."
As recently as Jan. 30, Oliveri posted on the Web site of his side project, Mondo Generator, that he was writing songs for the next QOTSA album and planned to hit the studio with the band in May or June. The group had been taking a break after a grueling, nearly two-year tour in support of its breakthrough Interscope album, "Songs for the Deaf."
That set has sold more than 874,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The single "No One Knows" earned the group its first-ever No. 1 hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Ex-Screaming Trees frontman Lanegan has been a fixture in Queens since the tour in support of 2000's "Rated R." A message on his official Web site reads, "Mark is officially no longer playing with Queens Of The Stone Age as to devote more time to his own band. His new album, Bubblegum,' is finished and will be out in late spring 2004. Cheers to the worlds greatest rock band Queens Of The Stone Age and many thanks to their fans."
Lanegan told Billboard.com last summer that he was reveling in his tenure with QOTSA, especially in a live setting, where he would usually only sing a handful of songs each night.
"It is kind of funny because I couldn't have dreamt up a better job, if that's what you call it," he said. "I get to travel around with my friends and not work very hard."
As for Homme, he is in the midst of a European tour with his side band the Eagles Of Death Metal, which will release its debut album, "Peace, Love and Death Metal," March 23 via Ipecac. As previously reported, his ongoing project Desert Sessions will perform live in early May at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., with a lineup that has yet to be announced.
Last fall, Homme acknowledged to Billboard.com that the extensive roadwork QOTSA undertook in support of "Songs for the Deaf" had taken its toll on his overall outlook. "I'm a little burnt on it," he said. "I'm not appreciating it and I think that's a really bad attitude, personally."
Nevertheless, both he and Oliveri told Billboard.com that they were itching to return to the studio to make a new album which would "blow away" the material on "Songs for the Deaf."
"We want to make records for years to come, and the idea is for longevity," Oliveri said. "I think, hands down, it seems like a step above," Homme added of the material the group had already written.
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
http://199.249.170.183/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2089251
Edited By Jonathan Cohen. February 12, 2004, 2:10 AM ET
Update: Oliveri, Lanegan Exit Queens Of The Stone Age
Updating a story posted this morning, in an unexpected turn of events, Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri and vocalist Mark Lanegan have exited the California-based rock act. Oliveri and QOTSA frontman Josh Homme have been friends since high school and played together in revered underground rock combo Kyuss before joining forces in Queens, but their relationship has apparently become irretrievably strained in recent months.
"Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri have recently parted ways," reads a statement from an Interscope spokesperson. "A number of incidents occurring over the last 18 months have led to the decision that the two can no longer maintain a working partnership in the band. The Queens, continuing under frontman Josh Homme, will begin work on a new album this spring."
As recently as Jan. 30, Oliveri posted on the Web site of his side project, Mondo Generator, that he was writing songs for the next QOTSA album and planned to hit the studio with the band in May or June. The group had been taking a break after a grueling, nearly two-year tour in support of its breakthrough Interscope album, "Songs for the Deaf."
That set has sold more than 874,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The single "No One Knows" earned the group its first-ever No. 1 hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Ex-Screaming Trees frontman Lanegan has been a fixture in Queens since the tour in support of 2000's "Rated R." A message on his official Web site reads, "Mark is officially no longer playing with Queens Of The Stone Age as to devote more time to his own band. His new album, Bubblegum,' is finished and will be out in late spring 2004. Cheers to the worlds greatest rock band Queens Of The Stone Age and many thanks to their fans."
Lanegan told Billboard.com last summer that he was reveling in his tenure with QOTSA, especially in a live setting, where he would usually only sing a handful of songs each night.
"It is kind of funny because I couldn't have dreamt up a better job, if that's what you call it," he said. "I get to travel around with my friends and not work very hard."
As for Homme, he is in the midst of a European tour with his side band the Eagles Of Death Metal, which will release its debut album, "Peace, Love and Death Metal," March 23 via Ipecac. As previously reported, his ongoing project Desert Sessions will perform live in early May at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., with a lineup that has yet to be announced.
Last fall, Homme acknowledged to Billboard.com that the extensive roadwork QOTSA undertook in support of "Songs for the Deaf" had taken its toll on his overall outlook. "I'm a little burnt on it," he said. "I'm not appreciating it and I think that's a really bad attitude, personally."
Nevertheless, both he and Oliveri told Billboard.com that they were itching to return to the studio to make a new album which would "blow away" the material on "Songs for the Deaf."
"We want to make records for years to come, and the idea is for longevity," Oliveri said. "I think, hands down, it seems like a step above," Homme added of the material the group had already written.
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.