Josh Homme Resurrects 'Desert Sessions' With Two New Star-Studded Volumes

Josh Homme created Desert Sessions, “the genre defying, longest running mixtape in history,” in 1997 at the Rancho de la Luna Studios in Joshua Tree, California, and after creating 10 volumes of the experimental project took a long break (16 years, to be exact). Now, the Queens of the Stone Age frontman is releasing two new star-studded volumes that include vocals from the likes of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa and Royal Blood's Mike Kerr.

Volumes 11 & 12 (aka Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels) comes out today (October 25) via Matador Records. To celebrate the new project, Homme also released the track "Crucifire," which features Kerr on vocals, and a short video recounting the history of Desert Sessions, which explains how Homme hand-picked different artists to invite to the desert for each new volume.

“The purpose of his invite was to write & record original material that would deliberately ignore the bombardment of the mainstream music business & its narrow yardstick for 'success,'" the video explains. "Instead, actively seek out musical vulnerability, deliberate stupidity & risk, employ odd arrangements, time signatures, create on instruments they’d never played nor f**king heard of before, share distant influences & pursue ideas they simply would not normally do in ways only their eccentric collaboration would produce.”

Aside from the new music, Homme is also teasing a Desert Sessions world tour. Grab your copy of Desert Sessions Vol. 11 & 12 here. Listen to "Crucifire" and watch the video below.


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