JOSH HOMME Talks THEM CROOKED VULTURES; Video Available

October 3, 2009

On October 1 at the 2009 Austin City Limits music festival, Antiquiet conducted an interview with Josh Homme (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) about THEM CROOKED VULTURES, his collaboration with Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS) and John Paul Jones (LED ZEPPELIN). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Antiquiet: What's going on with the [THEM CROOKED VULTURES debut] album?

Josh Homme: Well, we just finished figuring out what songs we're going to put on it, which took a little bit of time. We couldn't decide what [we wanted] to do. Do you make a triple album? An EP? How many songs is too much?

I tend to think that even if you've got a bunch of good songs, maybe you should err on the side of brevity, and keep it tight. But we really enjoy lots of songs, so we couldn't decide.

Antiquiet: And they're long songs…

Josh Homme: Some are, yeah. We call them battleships when they're big. There's about four battleships. And like, do you put 'em all on? I dunno, it's a tough call.

Antiquiet: Any name for it yet?

Josh Homme: It's a self-titled.

Antiquiet: How about a release?

Josh Homme: We've been doing a lot of stuff real kind of secretive, and we actually made a pact to not know when it's coming out, the band guys. I'm betting… Well it's going to be before the end of the year… We kind of have a little running bet on what the date is. And I intend to win that bet, because I'm going to cheat.

Antiquiet: Any idea as far as an agreement on a label, or how that's all going to work out distribution-wise?

Josh Homme: Yeah… It's going to come out on Interscope in the States, and Sony/BMG internationally.

Antiquiet: How do you feel about that? You've been pretty outspoken in the past about not feeling so hot about Interscope anymore…

Josh Homme: Well, you know… If it was up to me, I'd just get a real big hot air balloon, and put 'em all in the basket of that, and just (miming) pull the cord and let it drop over places, you know? But, you know, it's not up to me always.

Read the entire interview from Antiquiet. The seven-minute chat can also be viewed below.

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