Josh Homme and his Queens of the Stone Age are one of the essential American rock bands of the last decades. Born from the stoner scene of the nineties, they have managed to renew the validity of their formula.
Unbridled electricity, proven experience and sense of rhythm. Challenge and groove. Vehemence, voltaic waste and great tonnage. Steel guitars and Herculean riffs, in the line of succession that connects with Black Sabbbath, Led Zeppelin, Black Flag or Nirvana. And choruses to stop several cars. Josh Homme (producer of Arctic Monkeys, Iggy Pop or Nikki Lane and part-time actor) has been leading Queens of the Stone Age, one of the most reliable American rock bands, for more than 25 years. And the truth is that the recent "In Times New Roman..." (2023), his eighth studio album, has not diminished his fierceness at all, despite the complicated time during which he was beset by legal and health problems, as well as the hard blows that were the deaths of two close friends such as Taylor Hawkins (drummer of Foo Fighters) and Mark Lanegan. Survivors of the nineties and still with a lot to say, the Seattle quintet still summon rock and roll, both with capital letters, in a unique corpus.
Shanghai Baby is Ade Martín's personal project. Both in "EP01", her fabulous debut, and in its sequel, "EP02", the former member of Hinds goes her own way, away from the national indie and betting on foreign references, from the Velvet to her admired Strokes. Sweeping and rabidly original, Shanghai Baby is a beautiful exception in a scene plagued by commonplaces.
