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More than 70 Eminem songs are available for download on iTunes. Rap star Eminem is suing computer firm Apple for allegedly selling his music in its iTunes store without permission.
A lawsuit claiming infringement of copyright has been filed on behalf of the singer by his music publishing company Eight Mile Style.

Apple pays Eminem’s record label for each download - but Eight Mile Style argues it has not approved the deal.

“This is a significant issue in the music industry,” said Norman Ankers, a lawyer for the company.

“This occurs with many artists and many record labels.”

A spokesperson for Apple had no comment on the legal case, which was filed in the US District Court in Detroit.

Eight Mile Style said between 70 and 80 songs were affected by the dispute, including tracks from the Grammy award-winning The Eminem Show.

The company holds the copyright, or partial copyright, in all of the tracks.

It is seeking more than $75,000 (£36,900) for copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the Michigan consumer protection act.

It also asks for damages of up to $150,000 (£73,800) per infringement - or each time a song is downloaded.

Apple charges $0.99 (£0.49) for most song downloads in the US. Recording companies get about $0.70 (£0.34) and pass on $0.09 (£0.04) of that fee to publishers.

But many publishers would prefer to receive their share of the money directly from retailers.

“Generally, artists want their music sold,” said Joel Martin, a spokesperson for Eight Mile Style. “We want it downloaded. We request that any provider that’s offering downloads license it through the publisher.”

“Apple is not accounting to us. They are accounting to Universal (Music),” he said.

Martin added that Apple had repeatedly asked Eight Mile Style for permission to use its songs, but the requests had been turned down.

Eminem has locked horns with Apple before. In 2004 he sued the company for copyright infringement, alleging that it had used his song Lose Yourself in a TV commercial without permission.

The case was settled out of court.

Progressive metal band Queensryche has begun working on the follow-up to last year’s “Operation: Mindcrime II” in Seattle.

Frontman Geoff Tate tells Billboard.com he hopes the as-yet-untitled set will arrive next summer or fall.

“We’re just into the first couple months of writing for it, and it’s a theme record. It’s based on modern American life, sort of a social commentary,” Tate says. “Musically it’s very adventurous for us. It’s something we haven’t done before. It’s going to take a lot of people by surprise, and at the same time I think they’re going to be very intrigued by the concept of it.”

The band, which hits the road in September with Heaven And Hell and Alice Cooper, will release “Sign of the Times,” its second greatest-hits collection on EMI, prior to the tour. Among hits like “Walk in the Shadows” and “Silent Lucidity,” the two-disc set contains rarities like songs from Myth, the band Tate sang in before joining Queensryche, that later became demos for early QR tunes like “No Sanctuary.”

“Sign of the Times” also includes a recent interview with Tate and former Queensryche guitarist Chris DeGarmo. In it Tate says he and DeGarmo hang out often and write together, but the musical work they’ve done is on a “casual” basis.

Meanwhile, Queensryche is enjoying the success of its double-CD/DVD package “Mindcrime at the Moore.” The live set captures the band playing both “Mindcrime” albums in their entirety on tour last year. Released July 3, the title debuted at a career-best No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Music DVD chart.

John Mayer took the time to post a blog that was made to greet his sound engineer Chad. In the entry, John shows some of his humor as he wrote what could be assumed to be a song for Chad and ratted out some trivia about the guy.

The lyrics were quite interesting as John writes:

“Happy Birthday, Chad.
You are my sound engineer (hence the sound board birthday cake)
and together we share a house.
You keep me warm on those cold nights
by making sure the thermostat is functioning properly.
And if it’s not, then we lovingly embrace
the fact that it will be cold
and pile on extra blankets
in our respective beds
that are located next to one another
at our local Serta mattress dealer.
I long to feel your caring touch
on the production of the next CD
And look forward to showering again with you soon.
Your sister looks lovely with that pregnant glow, and I hope the gift will go to good use.”

R&B star Amerie has appealed to fans to appreciate her for her talent and not just her stunning looks. The 1 Thing hit maker, famed for performing in mini skirts or tiny shorts, is keen to win fans over with her records alone because she insists it is her music which differentiates her from her peers. Looks can be deceptive cos they are usually done by the make man or the grooming team, so people just get fantasized by those pics appearing on the cover pages of magazines and elsewhere. Voice and singing talents are something others cannot make and create for you, you either have it or you don’t. Some chaps in the music industry fool people by releasing their albums with another person’s voice and their picture on the label. Once on stage they can be seen lip singing the song. Ooooh! “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful…” Party less work harder and once you master your talents, people will start admiring you for the music part as well.

Kiss lead singer and guitarist Paul Stanley had to bow out of a Southern California concert because of heart problems before the show, according to his Web site.

Band-mates Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer played the Friday night gig at Soboba Casino, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, as Stanley was taken to the hospital.

“During sound check yesterday, my heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute where it stayed for over an hour necessitating paramedics to start an IV and give me a shot to momentarily stop my heart and get it into a normal pattern,” Stanley said in the Saturday Web site posting.

“Not knowing if this episode was life threatening made it even more exhausting,” the statement continued.

Phone and e-mail messages for Kiss manager Doc McGhee seeking comment about Stanley’s condition were not immediately returned Saturday night.

It was Kiss’ first ever appearance as a trio, according to the band’s Web site.

As famous for their makeup, stage mayhem and wagging tongues as their music, Kiss recorded the 1970s hits “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “Detroit Rock City.”

The 55-year-old Stanley, born Stanley Eisen, released a solo album, “Live to Win,” in 2006.

Rapper Fabolous performed his new single “Make Me Better” with r&b singer Ne-Yo

Pearl Jam will play a private show for fan club members in Chicago on August 2, three days before its headlining stint at the city’s Lollapalooza festival, the rock group said on Tuesday.

Tickets for the show at the Vic Theatre will go on sale on Thursday, priced at $150 per pair (plus applicable fees). The Vic’s capacity is about 1,400 people, according to the venue’s web site.

Lollapalooza is Pearl Jam’s only U.S. appearance planned for 2007. Apart from a three-week European tour last month, the group has been laying low this year. The Seattle quintet spent much of 2006 on the road in support of a new self-titled album, its first studio release in almost four years.

Joni Mitchell is following the lead of Paul McCartney in joining with the coffee giant Starbucks to release her comeback album.

Hear Music, a record label formed in partnership with Starbucks Corp. and the Concord Music Group, said Wednesday that Mitchell is its second signing. “Shine,” her first album of new compositions since 1998, will be released on Sept. 25.

McCartney’s album “Memory Almost Full” came out last month and was played relentlessly at Starbucks franchises, where listeners could purchase it with their coffee. The disc has sold 447,000 copies, 45 percent of them in Starbucks stores, the company said.

The new venture has attracted interest from veteran artists both because the music business is collapsing around them, and their fans are much more likely to be spending time in Starbucks these days than in music stores.

Mitchell worked with Hear Music two years ago as it released a disc of favorite Mitchell songs selected by various artists. She had essentially retired from making music and said this project was one of the things that rekindled her interest, said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment.

Mitchell wrote nine of the 10 songs on “Shine,” the exception being an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling poem “If.”

She described it as “as serious a work as I’ve ever done” with some dark lyrics.

Earlier this year, Mitchell was co-director of “The Fiddle and the Drum,” a ballet based on her music that debuted in Canada. She’s also planning an exhibit of her paintings in New York this fall.

Ashanti’s video “Switch” is the first video which portrays couple Ashanti and Nelly together. Ashanti has made this album “Switch” all on her own without any help from anybody. As previously her albums were produced by Irv Gotti. Ashanti is really happy handling this album by herself. Ashanti says “With this album, I’m taking the lead with everything. I’m steering my own ship. I’m doing everything on my own. I have a label that I’m developing under Universal as well. It’s just a big year for me — I feel really, really excited about the album. Now just because the two are close and have release their first music video together it doesn’t mean that the two are a couple. Means like if anyone was in another person’s company they would make a couple. Well all need a support staff that can help guide us in the murky waters of the music industry and Nelly is just being nice enough to act for her as her support staff, as might not be able to afford one yet. Yeah, all you are absolutely right she needs a support staff.

Editors frontman Tom Smith contemplates the huge anticipation surrounding the British band’s imminent sophomore set, “An End Has a Start,” and shivers. “I get nervous thinking about it,” he says.

No one else around the band seems concerned, however. Editors’ debut, “The Back Room,” was a slow-burn success in the United Kingdom after its bow in 2005. It’s certified platinum, with total British shipments of 450,000, according to Rob Whitaker, who co-manages the band for Zoot Music.

Whitaker says expectations for the follow-up released June 25 in the UK, two days after a high-profile appearance at the Glastonbury Festival, and set to bow July 17 in the United States are even higher.

“The shipment on the new record is Sony’s biggest of the year” in the United Kingdom, he says. “They’re looking at about 170,000.”

That’s in contrast to the steady progress of “The Back Room,” which earned comparisons to gloomy post-punk bands Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen, spawned several hit singles and was nominated for the 2006 Nationwide Mercury Prize.

Since its U.S. release in March 2006 via Fader/Epic, “The Back Room” has sold 47,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

First single “Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors” became the band’s first commercially available single June 26 in the States, with a three-track EP of album songs available via iTunes.

The next single, “An End Has a Start,” will coincide with a month long American tour in September.

Smith is happy enough to be compared to the biggest UK band of recent years, although he was more excited that R.E.M.’s Peter Buck turned up to watch the band perform at a Seattle in-store during the last album campaign.

R&B star Rihanna has topped the UK charts for a ninth week with her single Umbrella, matching a record for the longest run at number one this decade. The Barbados singer held off Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, who’s Big Girls Don’t Cry went up six to number two. Rihanna has equaled the run of Gnarls Barkley with the song Crazy last year.
The all-time record for consecutive weeks at the top of the singles chart is held by Bryan Adams with Everything I Do, which achieved 16 weeks in 1991. Records apart the success should be celebrated and she should aim higher with her next single whenever she plans to release one. Being from the land of Bob Marley, music is the way of life in the Caribbean whether it’s a cricket match or while partying they just love their music.

50 Cent’s new album, “Curtis,” has been pushed back another week, from September 4 to September 11, according to Interscope, which declined to give a reason for the move.

“Curtis” originally was slated for a June 26 release but was pushed back in late May.

Two singles from the project have met with little success on radio. “Amusement Park” peaked at No. 36 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and is No. 57 in its ninth week there, while “Straight to the Bank” peaked at No. 30 and has since fallen off the chart.

Another new song, “I Get Money,” debuted in early July at No. 75.

“Curtis,” which is the follow-up to 2005’s “The Massacre,” features production from Dr. Dre, Eminem and Timbaland, plus guest turns by Eminem, Akon, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls.

Beyonce takes a step away from being in the spotlight as she showed two different types of support. One was a friendly one and another a concerned one.

Beyonce showed up to the ‘Ms. Kelly’ album release party of her Destiny’s Child pal Kelly Rowland at club Homes in New York City. She went for simple style (as simple as she can get) in a pair of hip-hugging jeans and peep-toe shoes.

She also paid a visit to two people that got injured when pyrotechnics went awry at her concert in St. Louis Sunday night. The pyro meant for the stage accidentally spilled into the front row. She arrived at the hospital after the show and spent 45 minutes there making sure that the 2 injured concert-goers were fine.

I guess that I had good ground by saying that Courtney Love was hardly recognizable. It’s not just her choice of clothing, it really is just her.

It was only months ago that Courtney showed off her new slender frame that represented herself in a healthy manner but it seems that she hasn’t gone off whatever diet she had. What remains of Courtney performed for a packed crowd at Hiro Ballroom in Manhattan a few days ago.

The 43-year old rocked the show with a few new tracks that is reportedly for a new album without her band Hole. One of the songs was even entitled ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’.

I have a song for her. It’s called ‘How Courtney Turns to Bones’.

After performing for a dozen years, Afroman got his first hit in 2001 with the marijuana anthem “Because I Got High.”

The novelty song appealed both to supporters of marijuana and those who were against its use, Afroman told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview from his home in Hattiesburg.

“It was just a song that everybody could relate to,” he said.

The record was on a local label, getting some airplay for several years, said Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Media Research, which surveys the radio industry. It found its way to mainstream radio after Afroman was signed to Universal Records.

“The right song finds its way and `Because I Got High’ was proof of that,” Ross said.

The song was featured in Kevin Smith’s movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and on the soundtrack of “Disturbia,” starring Shia LaBeouf.

It has become a popular cell phone ring tone in recent years.

“I was just telling a story … kind of like a slap your knee around the campfire having a good time,” said Afroman, 32, whose real name is Joseph Foreman. “I was just having fun. It is a stew. It’s like a gumbo.”

Foreman said he’s working on his first film, a spoof of 1995’s “Waiting to Exhale.”

Rapper Foxy Brown has been MIA in the hit charts for several years now but she has an uncanny way of still being present in the headlines. More recently, she was in the headlines for beating someone with a bat.

This time, the news is something different. Foxy has gone missing and her family and friends are concerned. Apparently, no one has heard from her in over a week after she boarded a plane headed to London.

Her lawyer says that they’re all trying to find Foxy but is keeping an optimistic look at things. He says that she could just be getting some much needed rest or could be working on her album. Both things she could possibly get done in London.

So why the shut out?

Jazz vocalist Sophie Millman reckons that her sophomore album reflects “all of the turbulence, transformations and drama” in her life.

And there’s been plenty: The 24-year-old, widely tipped locally as the next major jazz artist to emerge from Canada, was born in Ufa, Russia — on the slopes of the Ural Mountains — but her family immigrated to Haifa, Israel, when she was 7. At 16, Millman was uprooted again when the family moved to Canada.

Toronto-based Linus Entertainment released Millman’s self-titled debut in Canada in 2004. Since then, she has balanced a music career’s demands with her university studies for a commerce degree, which she will finish in June 2008.

Millman, who managed to fit in headlining shows throughout North America, Mexico, Japan and Europe after her debut’s release, admits that “it’s been tough. I was learning my craft under incredible pressure. Meanwhile, I wrote essays on buses, cars and planes.”

Jazz CJRT Toronto music director Brad Barker noted that Millman’s approach is “less blues-based” than that of many other jazz singers, citing “the Eastern European flair she brings to her music.”

The June 19 Canadian release of her new album, “Make Someone Happy,” on Linus/Universal Music precedes an August 28 U.S. release through Koch.

“I was itching to make another record,” Millman said.

A June 10-city Canadian tour precedes U.S. shows scheduled for August 20-28.

“Make Someone Happy” continues its predecessor’s all-covers approach, placing standards like the title track alongside “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” from “Fiddler on the Roof” and Canadian pop-rock act the Guess Who’s 1969 hit “Undun.”

Where has Enrique Iglesias been hiding these last few years? The Latin heartthrob, who saw his star rise earlier this decade with the crossover success of such songs as ”Hero” and ”Escape,” all but disappeared from the spotlight except for tabloid speculation about his romantic relationship with tennis pinup Anna Kournikova. Iglesias, 32, has a decent excuse for his self-imposed hiatus. After a string of back-to-back records, the singer devoted three years to work on his latest disc, ”Insomniac,” released this month. It has 15 songs featuring typical Iglesias come-ons (”On Top of You”) and lovelorn laments (”Wish I Was Your Lover”). But he also takes a musical detour by adding rock and hip-hop sensibilities. What he or for that matter any person does if there own will and life, fans just like to speculate and then create gossip that would never ever change his decisions. As for his relationship with Tennis diva Anna, leave it for them to decide who the wanna carry on with life together. He has repeatedly said that the two are doing fine but it is us who want to be the other way, so it creates something spicy to read for us.

Britney Spears’ shelved pop comeback has been given a boost by producer Sean Garret, who insists the Toxic singer’s next single, is “out of control.” A week after her publicist revealed record executives had pushed Spears’ comeback album back to 2008 - prompting reports early studio work was no good - Garrett, who has just completed sessions with Spears, insists the singer has created another pop masterpiece. He tells “I’ve got this one record I’ve been holding for 10 months that everyone has tried to buy, but I stayed with Britney on it. I guarantee it will shake up the world. Oh puhlease, if it was it would have been out by now – she’s lost it, that’s why she wants to get into movies again (she doesn’t get that if she was that good and that hot, she woulda been picked up by now). Some producers are just trying to good mouth about her so that her appeal in the fans and music companies it maintained. She already had a few glitches while performing stage shows in America and that didn’t help either.

Bon Jovi deciding to go country for their latest album ‘Lost Highway’ proved to be the right choice. The record just jumped to the #1 spot on the US album chart’s for this week. This is the first #1 for the band in twenty years! The last time they reached the top was in 1988 with the ‘New Jersey’ album.

Other chart movers were the White Stripes whose ‘Icky Thump’ was deemed as the highest charting album and having the best sales week ever for the band. Brad Paisley’s ‘5th Gear’ debuted at #3 while other notable debuts came from Mandy Moore, Shop Boyz, Huet, Chrisette Michele and Lifehouse.

There stripes and then there are White Stripes, hehe. The singing duo from England, The White Stripes has entered the UK album chart at number one with their latest release, Icky Thump. Meg and Jack White’s new album replaced the Traveling Wilburys’ Collection at the top of the sales chart. The White Stripes are currently on tour in the US and Canada after promoting Icky Thump, their sixth album, at gigs across Europe, including the recent Wireless festivals in London and Leeds. The UK charts are as competitive as in the US and let see how long they can fight of competition from the likes of Rihanna other music bands. Some really cool bands are just at the tip of their one number slot and being there won’t be easy.

With Kelly Clarkson’s latest album being a flop, she decided to re-record her hit song ‘Because of You’ with country singer Reba McEntire. The duet is for Reba’s upcoming album, appropriately entitled ‘Duets’. It will be due out by September 2007.

The song is the first single off the album and a video is already out for it. For some reason, I think that the video is better than the song. But for the most part, the original is always better than the cover.

If only we can say that for the songs coming out of Kelly’s ‘My December’ album.

Broken Dolls just released their new single on Southern Fried Records. It is called “Stronger” and their highly awaited self-titled debut album is to be released on the 23rd of July. What is interesting with the band is that they record in a home studio and are helped by some acclaimed producers like Jagz Kooner and Jim Abbiss. Broken Dolls combine rock and dance influences with a mixture of classic songwriting and dance floor grooves. The band declared:

“We produced the track ourselves, and it’s all about our journey to this point. It hasn’t been easy, but we feel that the album we’ve made is hugely important. Stronger is really important to everyone in the band.”

Tour dates are as follow:

16th June - The Nags, Nuneaton
16th June - Smack, Leamington Spa
17th June — Moo, Leamington Spa
29th June - Style Bar, Rugby
6th July - Broken Dolls Colosseum
23rd July - Hoxton Bar and Grill, London
28th July - One Day festival, Oxford

Maroon 5’s new album, “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long” will not be promoted through a tour until this fall. On the other hand there was a show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom that showed some new material. Fans present were able to hear and see the band perform some of the album, which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 in May.

The show was very good with 11 tracks played. “Harder To Breathe” was the first on the list and the current single (“Makes Me Wonder”) continued the program and created a great atmosphere. This was easy to notice as Maroon 5 were asked for an encore that saw them go old-school with two of their hits from the “Songs About Jane”: “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved”

Three shows are also scheduled around June 25 in a three shows session in Osaka and as the opening act for The Police’s gig at the Miami Dolphin Stadium on July 10.

U2 is in the middle of a special songwriting and recording session with usual collaborators Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. This takes place in Marocco and different sources have reported that the bind has a lot of plans and many ideas. Bono on the other hand stated on U2.com that there is no talk of an album yet as it is still not planned. He said that:

“We have no plans for the music yet. We’re just going to make it until we can’t not put it out!”

Different events are planed for U2 this Summer and this looks like a relaxation session before a full schedule. The Live Earth concerts and different June sessions plus their concert film “U23D” are all big projects. Fans will still have to wait a little more for the next U2 studio album.

Kelly Clarkson’s new album is a dud. Her record label which was reluctant to release it in the first place is scrambling to release her new single ‘Sober’ after the first one ‘Never Again’ never took off.

I guess Clive Davis’ remarks about Kelly had merit.

There’s good news and bad news about all this though.

Good news, I think ‘Sober’ is better than ‘Never Again’.

The bad news, the song isn’t all that. It’s pretty but, in Simon’s school of thought, forgettable. It’s the worst thing in the music biz if you want commercial success. ‘Sober’ completely sucks compared to previous ballads of Kelly’s like ‘Breakaway’ or ‘Because of You’.

Foreigner founder Mick Jones recently announced that the band is planning to release a new album at the end of this year or early next year. Rumors have it that it will be a mixture of new songs and older ones remixed. The new Foreigner band (I say new because there are new members) was recently in a studio in order to re-record some of its hit singles. Mick Jones declared:

“About four or five (new) songs that we have pretty much ready to go. During the fall we’ll take a couple months off to focus in on the writing and get some new product. Gradually it’s been coming. It’s just been a question of feeling out where I want to go with the music. I want it to flow naturally. I don’t want to sort of do anything consciously to go in a certain direction. I want to be guided by my inner intuitions.”

The band is also thinking about recording a live DVD this year. Nothing is set up though and no official news has been released concerning this possible event. Foreigner is a band that had a huge impact years ago and it would be interesting to see how a new album would be welcomed by today’s audience.

The first video from Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full” has been released. It is an interesting fantasy story directed by Michael Gondry and starts with a postman delivering an old mandolin and something more. A bunch of ghosts appear as Paul starts singing his track, “Dance Tonight”. They start creating a little havoc and scare the postman. The end is also interesting as it presents McCartney jamming with the ghosts inside the box.

Natalie Portman is one of the ghosts and she appears quite a lot in the video. Everything is interesting and simple. It will surely catch on to fans as this is a good start to the “Memory Almost Full” album, due Tuesday. Paul does not have a problem with the ghosts and the clip has a lot of symbols and hidden connotations. The ex Beatles member said that this CD will be the most personal one yet. A lot of memories are to be sung and fans are sure to enjoy the album.

When the always restless Enrique Iglesias is in the process of recording a CD, he works at night and sleeps during the day. So, it comes as little surprise that his latest disc is titled “Insomniac”.
What does raise the brow, however, is that it took Iglesias nearly four years to cut the project. Previously, the self-described hyperactive singer/songwriter recorded seven albums in eight years.
“This CD drove me nuts”, Iglesias tells Billboard with exasperation. “I say that because I beat myself up. There have been times when it was fun, but there were times where it has been …”
But Iglesias says that whatever the sales outcome, there was no lack of effort. Indeed, he went through about 50 songs before culling the final 12 for the disc. There are three Spanish counterparts of the English tracks, including “Dimelo” the chart-topping Spanish version of lead off single “Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)”.
The disc’s musical menu reflects its diverse cast of studio chefs that include Mark Taylor, Max Martin, Johnta Austin, Sean Garrett and Brian Kidd. The evenly paced album runs from the effervescent pop of “Do You Know?” to the heartfelt ballad “Miss You” dedicated to Iglesias’ girlfriend Anna Kournikova, to “Push” a chunky pop/hip-hop entry featuring rapper Lil Wayne.
“If you were to tell anybody Enrique Iglesias is doing a song with Lil Wayne, they’d be like, “What?” Iglesias says. “And in the beginning, I thought, “I don’t know” But once I sang it, got confident and finished it, it worked.”
Interscope/Geffen/A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine says that “Insomniac” is Iglesias’ most varied disc, adding, “albums today have to be diverse. To me, an album is like a mixtape today. I don’t think anybody wants to hear an album where every song has the same beat. So, if I’m an artist, I want to do an album that really shows my reach. Enrique’s star appeal ties it all together.”

Queens of the Stone Age is a band that really had overnight success thanks to their 2002 album “Songs for the Deaf”. They practically disappeared from the underground and appeared as one of the best new hard rock acts. Since then the band has been having problems. There was a flop with the 2004 album “Lullabies to Paralyze” that forced the band to stop everything and re-group.
The result is a new album due June 12 via Interscope. It will be called “Era Vulgaris” and front man Josh Homme said that on every album there are different tracks that he had pieces of for around 10 years. This made everything easier and the new Queens of the Stone Age line up is also one that is comfortable for everybody. The band is confident that the album will mean a comeback long awaited by fans.