Sunday, 06 March 2011
Saturday, 05 March 2011
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Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones Unveil Supergroup
Them Crooked Vultures make their debut with a post-Lollapalooza set.
By James Montgomery
Dave Grohl (file)
Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesOfficially, Lollapalooza ended Sunday night in Chicago's Grant Park, with dueling sets from the Killers and Jane's Addiction. Unofficially, it ended very early Monday morning, across town at venerable rock club the Metro, with a surprise show by Them Crooked Vultures.
To the unfamiliar, the Vultures might seem like an odd choice to close out Lolla weekend ... until you realize that they're made up of Foo Fighters frontman/ former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones. And their gig at the Metro was their world premiere.
According to some reports, the Vultures actually turned down Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell's request to replace the Beastie Boys as headliners at the festival, opting to debut in front of some 1,100 super-psyched fans at the Metro, rather than 75,000 in Grant Park (tickets for the gig were announced via Foo Fighter/ QOTSA fan clubs). Meaning that, in a lot of ways, this was the most sought-after ticket in town.
Taking the stage just after midnight, the Vultures — Grohl on drums (of course), Homme on guitar and vocals, Jones on bass and keys and frequent QOTSA contributor Alain Johannes on guitar — ripped through 12 songs in 80 minutes, all taken from their upcoming debut, which may or may not be called Never Deserved the Future, and may or may not be hitting stores on October 23 (early "promo" videos touting both those facts were revealed over the weekend to be hoaxes perpetrated by QOTSA fans).
The songs, with appropriately Homme-ian titles like "Scumbag Blues," "Mind Eraser (No Chaser)," "Caligulove" and "Interlude w/Ludes," sounded pretty much how you'd expect, given the band's pedigree. They rocked, hard — Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot described them as "fresh, invigorating and just plain nasty" — delving off into psychedelic, reverb-filled excursions and exploring proggy territory, "both of the old-school Yes variety, and the more modern Tool flavor," according to the Chicago Sun-Times' Jim DeRogatis.
It's not known if Monday's Metro performance was a one-off event for the Vultures — there have been whispers of a full-blown tour, but a spokesperson for Homme had not responded to MTV News' request for comment at press time. Nor was it clear whether or not they'll have an album out in October.
Early Monday, a Crooked Vultures Twitter account, which had previously posted links to the band's official-looking Web site and the Metro's online ticketing site — posted a link to what appears to be the group's first bit of official merchandise: a Deserve the Future T-shirt. Cost: $30.
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Kirstie Alley Is 60?!!!
If I spent more time sitting across from Kirstie Alley's Wikipedia page and wasn't half hungover while doing Birthday Sluts, the fact that her earth age is 60 might already be burned into my memory. BUT DAMN! Scientists can confirm that Xenu eggs of crazy wrapped in a sugary estrogen shell age well. While some actresses that are Kirstie's age are holding on to the toe nail of youth by filling their faces with more chemicals than what's in a can of Coke, she's staying young in the face by exfoliating her thetans off and suckling barley syrup out of John Travolta's warm tete in the sauna. Fuck those nutritionists who say drinking a Big Gulp full of Krispy Kreme frosting every morning isn't good for you.
Who needs sanity and reason when you've still got your It Takes Two face. This changes everything (not really)!!!
In case you're wondering, Kirstie is still hornier than a catholic priest. This is what she Twatted yesterday about her Dancing with the Stars partner Maks:
instead of JONNY Appleseed... Maks is JONNY AMPLEseed
Thank you for letting us know that Maks cums gallons, Kristie. And no, we don't need to know how you know. We're not going to open that book of nightmares tonight.
And here's the entire cast of Dancing with the....For Lack of a Better Word...Stars? with their partners. In order: Chelsea Kane with Mark Ballas, Chris Jericho with Mop Head, Hines Ward with Kym Johnson, Kendra's stupid ass with Louis Van Amstel, Kirstie, Psycho Mike with Lacey Schwimmer, Petra Nemcova with Dimitry Chaplin, Ralph Macchio with Karina Smirnoff Ice, Lil Romeo with Chelsie Hightower, Sugar Ray Leonard with Anna Trebunskaya and Wendy Williams (looking like if a Muppet ate Mimi) with Tony Dovolani.
Cheryl Burke Erika Christensen Carol Grow Mariah O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Brien Kylie Bax
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Farrakhan Still Not A Fan Of Rihanna
Nor do we see that opinion changing anytime soon. You’ll recall that earlier in the week, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan made some really vile comments about Rihanna and her fans, particularly one sin the LGBT community. The minster continued spewing his nonsense during his annual Savior’s Day speech, bringing up RiRi’s performance at the Grammys [...]Lisa Snowdon Missy Peregrym Rebecca Romijn Gwen Stefani Tessie Santiago
