Era Vulgaris album cover explained

Queen's Of The Stone Age's new album Era Vulgaris came out last week (June 12th) and entered the Billboard charts at Number Fourteen. The album's cover features a pair of bruised and battered cartoon light bulbs, which bandleader Josh Homme says represent the idea of the album: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "Those are these ideas, these broken you know sort of brutalized ideas, and they I guess they sort of represent the album. The title has an accidental air of seriousness."

Homme also recently told Kerrang! magazine that he feels bad about the falling out he had with former bass player Nick Oliveri -- and how it has been perceived as his fault: "I miss Nick and I miss the fact that I can't hang out with somebody that I really want to... No one ever asked me, 'Wow, he was your best friend of all these years. That must have been real difficult?' No one ever asked me that simple question. And no one ever considered that I'm still friends with everybody else so there must have been something there."

Queens Of The Stone Age recently overhauled the band's official website, qotsa.com, unveiling a new design and also posting behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the video for their current single "Sick, Sick, Sick."

The group recently announced details of the "Duluth" tour, which will begin on July 22nd in Costa Mesa, California and play less-traveled concert markets like Billings, Montana and Eugene, Oregon.
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