111-637: The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme in 1997. Artists such as Brant Bjork , PJ Harvey , Twiggy Ramirez , Dave Catching , Nick Oliveri , Mark Lanegan , John McBain , Ben Shepherd , Josh Freese , Chris Goss , Alain Johannes , Troy Van Leeuwen , Dean Ween , Les Claypool and many others from the Palm Desert Scene have contributed as songwriters and musicians. The Desert Sessions began in August 1997 at
222-458: A Winchester rifle , a sawed-off shotgun , and a Beretta 9 mm pistol. Homme has adopted multiple pseudonyms over the years. He used the name "Carlo Von Sexron" to credit his bass, keyboard, piano, and drums playing on albums such as The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4 , Queens of the Stone Age , and Peace, Love, Death Metal . Homme is known as "(King) Baby Duck" to Dalle and
333-577: A cease and desist from a band of the same name , this band became Queens of the Stone Age. Homme lived in Amsterdam for several months in 1996, which set forth events that would help kickstart the band. Roadrunner Records approached Homme to contribute to the label's compilation Burn One Up! Music for Stoners , which led to the first Queens of the Stone Age song, "18 A.D.", written with Dave Catching featuring Catching and members of Dutch stoner rock band Beaver on bass and drums. Homme also produced
444-496: A pivot to video , introducing a new feature called "Reels". The intent was to compete with the video-sharing site TikTok . Instagram also added suggested posts in August 2020. After scrolling through posts from the past 48 hours, Instagram displays posts related to their interests from accounts they do not follow. In February 2021, Instagram began testing a new feature called Vertical Stories, said by some sources to be inspired by TikTok. The same month, they also began testing
555-522: A portmanteau of instant camera and telegram . Josh Riedel joined the company in October as Community Manager, Shayne Sweeney joined in November as an engineer, and Jessica Zollman joined as a Community Evangelist in August 2011. The first Instagram post was a photo of South Beach Harbor at Pier 38, posted by Mike Krieger at 5:26 p.m. on July 16, 2010. On October 6, 2010,
666-526: A "lightweight" version of the Explore tab. On May 11, 2016, Instagram revamped its design, adding a black-and-white flat design theme for the app's user interface , and a less skeuomorphistic , more abstract , "modern" and colorful icon. Rumors of a redesign first started circulating in April, when The Verge received a screenshot from a tipster, but at the time, an Instagram spokesperson simply told
777-515: A "retarded human being" in June 2017 and began collaborating more with notably liberal artists such as Run the Jewels in the late 2010s. Homme owns a few motorcycles, including a custom Falcon and a Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic . He drives a silver 1967 Chevrolet Camaro , which he was given as a gift when he was 14 years old; it is the only car he has ever owned. He owns several guns, including
888-453: A 2011 re-release of their debut album and corresponding tour followed, featuring the album played front to back in the style in which it was recorded. This was the first time many of the songs had been performed live since the album's original release. On June 4, 2013, after a tumultuous writing and recording process, Queens of the Stone Age released their sixth album, ...Like Clockwork , receiving high praise from critics, as well as topping
999-548: A contractor like his father. Homme also has ties in Idaho and has talked about his formative experiences there, such as seeing Carl Perkins perform at the Sandpoint Music Festival and the first time purchasing his own electric guitar (an Ovation Ultra GP) in a Sandpoint music store. He began playing guitar at the age of nine, after his parents denied his wishes for a drum kit. He took guitar lessons for
1110-646: A cover of the song " Stone Cold Crazy " alongside Eleven , as well as Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three and the Turbonegro tribute Alpha Motherfuckers as part of QOTSA covering the song "Back to Dungaree High". The first use of the QOTSA name was on the compilation album Burn One Up! Music For Stoners featuring a one-off lineup of Homme and Dave Catching with Beaver members Milo Beenhakker and Eva Nahon, recording
1221-625: A crowd of approximately 1,100 ticketholders with additional live rhythm guitarist/auxiliary man Alain Johannes. Their album, Them Crooked Vultures , was released by Interscope Records in the United States on November 17, 2009, and by Sony Music internationally. The band launched a world tour including performing on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest on February 6, 2010, and at Austin City Limits on October 2, 2009, as well as many festivals through 2010. Them Crooked Vultures won
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#17327984922381332-532: A falling out with Oliveri. Following the release of Songs for the Deaf , their relationship deteriorated until Homme fired Oliveri from the band in 2004. Homme reportedly strongly considered breaking up the band at this point. Homme began writing the band's next album, Lullabies to Paralyze , named after a lyric from the Songs for the Deaf hidden track "Mosquito Song". Lullabies to Paralyze , created with Songs for
1443-502: A feed of the likes and comments made by users they follow. The change was made official in October, with head of product Vishal Shah stating that the feature was underused and that some users were "surprised" when they realized their activity was being surfaced in this manner. In October 2019, Instagram introduced a limit on the number of posts visible in page scrolling mode unless logged in. Until this point, public profiles had been available to all users, even when not logged in. Following
1554-493: A lack of success in driving adoption. In March 2020, Instagram launched a new feature called "Co-Watching". The new feature allows users to share posts with each other over video calls. According to Instagram, they pushed forward the launch of Co-Watching in order to meet the demand for virtually connecting with friends and family due to social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . In August 2020, Instagram began
1665-638: A location via geographical tagging . Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed . A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS , Android , Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook . It supports 32 languages including English , Hindi , Spanish , French , Korean , and Japanese . Instagram
1776-442: A lot of years just working it over with little tricks here and there, I almost feel like if you reveal too much of that you give away something that's near and dear to you. It's like you put it up on the altar and say, 'Here, everyone take a slice.'" Homme relaxed his secretive approach to the subject in the 2010s, though much of his known equipment has been compiled through amateur photos and screenshots of him performing live and in
1887-533: A lower self-esteem in users. The pilot began in May 2019, and was extended to 6 other markets in July. The pilot was expanded worldwide in November 2019. Also in July 2019, Instagram announced that it would implement new features designed to reduce harassment and negative comments on the service. In August 2019, Instagram also began to pilot the removal of the "Following" tab from the app, which had allowed users to view
1998-538: A mix tape—the longest-running mix tape in existence. It's awesome: doing them is just a matter of making the time frame come together. I was really wanting to do one before the new album " Era Vulgaris " came out, but we didn't put a time frame on it and it consumed what would have been that time. I didn't want it to take away from what we were doing. – Josh Homme in May 2007 as recorded by Blabbermouth.net . After 11 years of inactivity, Homme revealed in October 2014 that he would start working on more Desert Sessions material
2109-477: A mobile check-in app created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger . On March 5, 2010, Systrom closed a $ 500,000 (equivalent to $ 682,200 in 2023) seed funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn. Realizing that it was too similar to Foursquare , they refocused their app on photo-sharing, which had become a popular feature among its users. They renamed it Instagram,
2220-487: A month later, citing Homme's alcoholism and drug abuse; he subsequently entered rehab, but he and Dalle would accuse each other of domestic violence and have mutual restraining orders filed over the following months. Dalle requested that restraining orders be filed against him on behalf of their sons in September 2021, alleging physical and emotional abuse, but was denied by two judges. In 2023, Homme won sole custody of
2331-469: A musical collective series "that cannot be defined". He stated, "At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That's why it's good for musicians. If someday that's not enough anymore, or that's not the reason behind you doing it – that's not your raison d'être – then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it's amazing. It's easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it." The recordings are done "on
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#17327984922382442-536: A new feature allowing users to browse and post GIFs in their comments. That same month, Zuckerberg announced that Meta would start selling blue "verified" badges on Instagram and Facebook. On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads , a social network platform connected to Instagram that allows users to make public shortform blog posts comprising text, photos, and videos, as well as to converse with other users and reblog other users' posts. Threads aims to compete with Twitter . In December 2023, Instagram launched
2553-608: A plan to keep the company independently managed. Britain's Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 14, 2012, and on August 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. closed its investigation, allowing the deal to proceed. On September 6, 2012, the deal between Instagram and Facebook officially closed with a purchase price of $ 300 million in cash and 23 million shares of stock. The deal closed just before Facebook's scheduled initial public offering according to CNN . The deal price
2664-432: A podcast titled "Close Friends Only" featuring conversations among celebrities. The first episode featured rappers Ice Spice and Doja Cat . Subsequent episodes in June and August of 2024 featured Reneé Rapp , Rachel Sennott , Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla . In April 2022, Instagram began testing the removal of the ability to see "recent" posts from various hashtags. This change became permanent and system wide
2775-525: A private storage area, out of visibility for the public and other users. The move was seen as a way to prevent users from deleting photos that don't garner a desired number of "likes" or are deemed boring, but also as a way to limit the "emergent behavior" of deleting photos, which deprives the service of content. In August, Instagram announced that it would start organizing comments into threads, letting users more easily interact with replies. Since February 2017, up to ten pictures or videos can be included in
2886-700: A remix of the Prodigy track " Take Me to the Hospital ". It was re-titled "Take Me to the Hospital (Josh Homme and Liam H.'s Wreckage Remix)". That same year, he produced most of the Arctic Monkeys album Humbug . He later provided backing vocals on "All My Own Stunts" from their 2011 album Suck It and See , and vocals for the tracks " One For the Road " and "Knee Socks" on their 2013 album AM . Homme went on to appear at multiple Arctic Monkeys concerts in
2997-414: A romantic interest in or view favorably, as well as its #ManCrushMonday counterpart centered on men; and #ThrowbackThursday, in which users post a photo from their past, highlighting a particular moment. In December 2017, Instagram began to allow users to follow hashtags, which display relevant highlights of the topic in their feeds. The ability to search "Recent" hashtags was temporarily disabled during
3108-416: A sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of January 2019, "stories" are used by 500 million people daily. Instagram was launched for iOS in October 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger . It rapidly gained popularity, reaching 1 million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and 1 billion in June 2018. In April 2012, Facebook acquired
3219-492: A single post, with the content appearing as a swipeable carousel . The feature originally limited photos to the square format, but received an update in August to enable portrait and landscape photos instead. In April 2018, Instagram launched its version of a portrait mode called "focus mode", which gently blurs the background of a photo or video while keeping the subject in focus when selected. In November, Instagram began to support Alt text to add descriptions of photos for
3330-518: A song by Beaver for the compilation. The band's first release under the new name was the Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age compilation EP, featuring tracks from both Kyuss and songs recorded from the Gamma Ray EP sessions from 1996, released in late 1997. Queens of the Stone Age released their eponymous debut album in 1998. Initially, the band consisted of various friends of Homme's from
3441-456: A square, 1:1 aspect ratio; since August 2015, the app supports portrait and widescreen aspect ratios as well. Users could formerly view a map of a user's geotagged photos. The feature was removed in September 2016, citing low usage. Since December 2016, posts can be "saved" into a private area of the app. The feature was updated in April 2017 to let users organize saved posts into named collections. Users can also "archive" their posts in
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3552-454: A standalone video application. The application was shut down and removed from app stores in March 2022, citing low usage and a shift to short-form video content. On September 24, 2018, Krieger and Systrom announced in a statement they would be stepping down from Instagram. On October 1, 2018, it was announced that Adam Mosseri would be the new head of Instagram. During Facebook F8 , it
3663-503: A switchblade with "Stay Sharp" underneath, while his inner right arm has a straight razor with "Born to Win" inscribed; underneath, his nickname, "Baby Duck", is a shared tattoo with his Eagles of Death Metal bandmate Jesse Hughes , who has his nickname "Boots Electric" in the same location. Homme also shares a tattoo that says "Freitag 4:15" with former Queens of the Stone Age bandmates Nick Oliveri and Mark Lanegan and their sound engineer Hutch, commemorating their "worst show ever" at
3774-569: A valuation of $ 500 million (equivalent to $ 656,100,000 in 2023). Joshua Kushner was the second largest investor in Instagram's Series B fundraising round, leading his investment firm, Thrive Capital , to double its money after the sale to Facebook. On April 3, 2012, Instagram released a version of its app for Android phones, and it was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day. The Android app has since received two significant updates: first, in March 2014, which cut
3885-502: A year later, and now hashtags can only be used to see a selection of curated content from "top" users. These changes are ostensibly an attempt to hinder the spread of misinformation, while Instagram has also repeatedly stated that hashtags do not help posts get views. In April 2024, Instagram announced that they would start testing new tools "within weeks" to fight sextortion , a form of blackmail involving intimate pictures sent online. On August 2, 2024, Turkey blocked Instagram after
3996-582: Is always in search of intriguing and unique guitars that are not always generally accepted as high-quality. He said that he tends to buy "weird Japanese guitars" or guitars that are "scarred" and have an interesting story. In 2013, Homme co-founded the Sweet Stuff Foundation, a charity that aims to give assistance to musicians, recording engineers, and their families struggling with illness and disability. Homme met Australian singer and musician Brody Dalle at Lollapalooza in 1996, when he
4107-419: Is the band's primary songwriter and mainly sings lead vocals and plays guitar. He also plays drums in the rock band Eagles of Death Metal , which he co-founded in 1998. Homme began his career as the co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Kyuss , with whom he performed from 1987 to 1995. He then served as a touring guitarist for the rock band Screaming Trees from 1996 to 1998, leaving to start Queens of
4218-412: Is usually described as alternative rock , desert rock , hard rock , and stoner rock . He has been evasive in the past about the equipment he uses, changing the subject or occasionally lying when asked in interviews about his setup, as well as objecting to official photos of his pedalboard . He explained in June 2007, "I don't [share secrets] only because my sound is important to me and I've spent
4329-557: The BBC sitcom House of Fools , in which both had prominent roles. Earlier in the year, Homme had also made appearances on IFC 's Comedy Bang! Bang! and Portlandia . In July 2015, Homme began hosting a weekly hour-long show called The Alligator Hour with Joshua Homme on Apple Music 's 24-hour streaming internet radio station Beats 1 . The show features a highly eclectic selection of songs personally selected by Homme, interspersed with his own wry introductions of (and commentary on)
4440-508: The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011. Though the band has been inactive for an extended period due to the schedules of its members' other projects, all three of members have expressed interest in returning to the project. On September 3, 2022, they reunited for a performance at Wembley Stadium in honour of Foo Fighters ' late drummer Taylor Hawkins and again on September 27 at
4551-650: The Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree when Josh Homme brought together musicians from the bands Monster Magnet , Goatsnake , earthlings? , and Kyuss . The ranch, located in the Mojave Desert , has an old house filled with rare and unique recording equipment and instruments, and was owned by Dave Catching and the late Fred Drake . With the large numbers of musicians arriving to the ranch over time, and with many albums having been produced there,
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4662-486: The Screaming Trees as a rhythm guitarist on the summer Lollapalooza tour in 1996, a replacement for Johnson, and that continued into the following year. Homme and vocalist Mark Lanegan became close friends during this time but, disliking the rest of the band's continual disharmony, began considering forming his own band. He founded Gamma Ray, a group more centered on his unique style and tastes, in 1996. After
4773-575: The USA including Austin City Limits and The Wiltern . In June 2010, Homme appeared on the Comedy Central series Tosh.0 to do an unplugged duet version of the hit viral song " What What " with Samwell . He also provided the theme song to Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 , formerly known as Aqua Teen Hunger Force , and collaborated with Mark Lanegan to provide the theme music for Anthony Bourdain 's travel show Parts Unknown . In May 2012, it
4884-570: The Windows 10 Mobile app was discontinued, though the mobile website remains available as a progressive web application (PWA) with limited functionality. The app remains available on Windows 10 computers and tablets, also updated to a PWA in 2020. To comply with the GDPR regulations regarding data portability , Instagram introduced the ability for users to download an archive of their user data in April 2018. IGTV launched on June 20, 2018, as
4995-466: The hashtags "#Desert, #Sessions, #11, #12". In September 2019, Desert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12 were officially announced, along with a comedic promo video featuring Homme and Liam Lynch . The promo includes Homme running through some of the featured artists such as Billy Gibbons , Les Claypool , and Jake Shears . In October 2019, recordings of the Desert Sessions were released for
5106-469: The 2001 Rock Am Ring Festival in Germany on a Friday at 4:15 p.m. All were tattooed on their ribs so that it would hurt the most and serve as a reminder. Instagram Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms . It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters , be organized by hashtags , and be associated with
5217-421: The 2020 U.S. elections, to prevent the spread of misinformation. In 2022 this was again tested on some users, and in April 2023 the ability to search recent hashtags was removed entirely. Now, users are only able to see a curated selection of "popular" posts using a given hashtag. Instagram said that this is to prevent abuse and so that hashtags do not help users gain views, but it has been noted that using hashtags
5328-460: The Billboard 200 charts. ...Like Clockwork highlights Homme's collaborative recording process and features guests such as Elton John , Dave Grohl , Alex Turner , Jake Shears , Trent Reznor , Mark Lanegan , Nick Oliveri and Brody Dalle . Their seventh album, Villains , was released in August 2017. The album contains no collaborations other than being produced by Mark Ronson , marking
5439-477: The Deaf , however, would gain even more buzz from the music community and fans alike. In Songs for the Deaf , Homme continued his filtering of stoner rock and hard rock. The album centers on Homme's memories of uncomfortable rides through the California desert, where he had performed in his days with Kyuss, and where there was little to do but listen to Spanish radio stations . During this time, Homme had
5550-575: The Deaf touring recruits Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo and collaborators and future recruits Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of Eleven , was a critical and commercial success, debuting at number five on the Billboard 200 , QOTSA's best charting album on the Billboard 200 to date. Queens of the Stone Age's fifth album, Era Vulgaris , was released in early June 2007 and received generally positive reviews from critics. Following
5661-563: The Homme ranch, as well as a park named after him in an exclusive enclave of the Valley. The Homme surname is believed to be Norwegian. Homme moved with his family on a regular basis due to his father's work, residing in many towns around the Valley. He later discussed having to "create [his] own fun" as a child growing up in the desert, stating that he did not start playing music to "get girls or make money" and that he assumed he would grow up to be
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#17327984922385772-625: The Instagram iOS app was officially released through the App Store . In February 2011, it was reported that Instagram had raised $ 7 million (equivalent to $ 9,357,057 in 2023) in Series A funding from a variety of investors, including Benchmark Capital , Jack Dorsey , Chris Sacca (through Capital fund), and Adam D'Angelo . The deal valued Instagram at around $ 20 million. In April 2012, Instagram raised $ 50 million (equivalent to $ 65,610,000 in 2023) from venture capitalists with
5883-441: The Jewels (via separate pre-recorded performances displayed on giant screens due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) to play the song during the group's voter encouragement performance Holy Calamavote , broadcast on YouTube . In 2021, Homme produced the songs "Boilermaker", "Space", and "King" from Royal Blood 's album Typhoons . "Boilermaker" was included on the standard album release, while "Space" and "King" were only available on
5994-411: The Jewels , Death from Above 1979 , Earthlings? , Mastodon , Peaches , Lady Gaga , The Strokes , Local H , Biffy Clyro , Royal Blood , and Arctic Monkeys . Homme, Nick Oliveri , and Brad Wilk contributed to the soundtrack for the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys . Homme and Alain Johannes were originally meant to develop a score for the video game Spec Ops in 2005, however
6105-530: The Jewels , and Arctic Monkeys . Joshua Michael Homme was born in Palm Springs, California , on May 17, 1973. He grew up in a well-known family in and around Palm Desert, California ; his paternal grandfather, Clancy "Cap" Homme, moved to the area from North Dakota and was an early settler of the Valley. Cap has a private street named after him in Rancho Mirage , marking the original road to
6216-557: The KIA Forum for the second Hawkins tribute show. The band covered Elton John 's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and Queens of the Stone Age's "Long Slow Goodbye", and also played their songs "Gunman" and "Dead End Friends". Homme has collaborated with acts such as Mondo Generator , Foo Fighters , PJ Harvey , Fatso Jetson , Mark Lanegan Band , Trent Reznor , Masters of Reality , Millionaire , Wellwater Conspiracy , Unkle , Primal Scream , Melissa Auf der Maur , Paz Lenchantin , Run
6327-618: The Seattle area. Homme had asked a number of singers, including Lanegan, to perform as lead vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age, but by the time of recording the band's debut album, he had moved back to Palm Desert and the band was pared down to just Homme and ex-Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez . Homme was left to cover every other instrument and ended up singing for the first time in his career. Shortly after recording, Homme and Hernandez were joined by bassist and vocalist Nick Oliveri and guitarist, keyboardist, and lapsteel player Dave Catching ,
6438-558: The Stone Age. He has also overseen a musical improv project with other musicians (mostly from the Palm Desert Scene ) known as The Desert Sessions since 1997. He formed the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures alongside Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones in 2009, releasing their eponymous debut album later that year. In 2016, he produced, co-wrote , and performed on the Iggy Pop album Post Pop Depression . He has also been involved with acts such as Royal Blood , Foo Fighters , Run
6549-407: The album's touring cycle, the band took a break to focus on individual projects, during which Homme continued to produce and create more records outside the band. This break would unintentionally turn into a six-year gap between albums. In 2010, following his work with rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures , Homme began performing more live shows with QOTSA. Following a deluxe reissue of Rated R ,
6660-549: The app's launch it had used the Foursquare API technology to provide named location tagging. In March 2014, Instagram started to test and switch the technology to use Facebook Places . In June 2015, the desktop website user interface was redesigned to become more flat and minimalistic , but with more screen space for each photo and to resemble the layout of Instagram's mobile website. Furthermore, one row of pictures only has three instead of five photos to match
6771-501: The app. However, Instagram discontinued this version of Threads in December 2021, mainly due to most of its features being rolled out on Instagram itself, as well as low usage compared to other social media applications. Threads was not well-received among Instagram's user base. Since its launch, only approximately 220,000 users globally downloaded the app, which represented less than 0.1% of Instagram's monthly active users, indicating
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#17327984922386882-557: The attention of Chris Goss , who became the band's mentor, helping the band sign to a label and eventually producing them exclusively in an effort to preserve their sound. Due to Homme being younger than 18 at the time of the band's signing, his parents signed the contract on his behalf. Kyuss released four albums ( Wretch , Blues for the Red Sun , Welcome to Sky Valley , and ...And the Circus Leaves Town ), of which
6993-490: The band first appeared on Volumes 3 & 4 , released that year. Over the next few years, Hughes settled into family life while Homme focused on Queens of the Stone Age. However, after Hughes' separation from his wife in 2003 and a spurt in creativity that resulted in dozens of songs, Homme convinced Hughes to pursue a full-time music career. Hughes writes, sings, and plays rhythm guitar, while Homme produces, arranges, and plays drums, bass, and various other instruments. So far,
7104-418: The band has released four albums: Peace, Love, Death Metal in 2004, Death by Sexy in 2006, Heart On in 2008, and most recently Zipper Down in 2015. Due to his commitments with Queens of the Stone Age and other projects, Homme does not regularly tour with Eagles of Death Metal, but occasionally makes appearances during live performances. In an October 2008 interview, he re-affirmed his commitment to
7215-500: The band saying, "This isn't a side project for me. I'm in two bands. I have musical schizophrenia, and this is one of those personalities." In July 2009, it was revealed that Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones were recording together for a musical project named Them Crooked Vultures . Though initially conceived as solely a studio project, the trio performed their first show together on August 9, 2009, in Chicago at The Metro to
7326-461: The band was now composed entirely of ex-Kyuss members and roadies. Following their debut album, by which time Hernandez left the group, Queens of the Stone Age released the next album, Rated R , during which the band used a wider range of instruments to achieve a more relaxed, spacious and psychedelic sound. Though it differed from the band's debut, Rated R became Queens of the Stone Age's first mainstream hit. The next release, 2002's Songs for
7437-427: The category for "Best Recording Package" at the 2021 Grammy Awards . Note Josh Homme Joshua Michael Homme ( / ˈ h ɒ m i / HOM -ee ; born May 17, 1973) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the founder and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age , which he formed in 1996. Homme
7548-465: The change, after viewing a number of posts a pop-up requires the user to log in to continue viewing content. That month, Instagram launched a separate app known as Threads. Similar to Snapchat , the app allowed users to communicate through messaging and video chats. It was integrated with Instagram's "Close friends" feature, so that users could send images, photos, and texts privately to others, and also had Instagram's photo editing system embedded into
7659-558: The children and was granted a restraining order against Dalle after it was discovered that her new boyfriend had forged the children's signatures on certain legal documents. Homme once described himself as financially conservative and socially liberal , considering himself a "fallen libertarian ". He has said that he dislikes the idea of using his influence to tell people how to vote, and often likens his music to an "ice cream parlour or arcade" where people can simply have fun. Despite this, he referred to then-president Donald Trump as
7770-612: The deluxe edition. In 2024, Homme recorded a guitar part in his home studio and sent it to Ukraine for inclusion in "Chaplain", a song by Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Remez who is otherwise best known as the frontman of the rock band Ruky'v Bryuky ; produced by Oleksandr Chemerov , the rest of the song was recorded in a mobile studio on the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian War as part of the Cultural Forces project to promote military music culture. Homme's work
7881-408: The early 1990s, often driving for hours to isolated locations in the desert and plugging into generators to perform. These events, known as "generator parties", became urban legend among rock subculture. The band became both famous for their heavy, down tuned, groove oriented music, and infamous for their backstage fights with local LA bands when they traveled into town to play gigs. This soon brought
7992-687: The file size of the app by half and added performance improvements; then in April 2017, to add an offline mode that allows users to view and interact with content without an Internet connection. At the time of the announcement, it was reported that 80% of Instagram's 600 million users were located outside the U.S., and while the aforementioned functionality was live at its announcement, Instagram also announced its intention to make more features available offline, and that they were "exploring an iOS version". On April 9, 2012, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) bought Instagram for $ 1 billion (equivalent to $ 1,312,000,000 in 2023) in cash and stock, with
8103-503: The final three Goss-produced efforts are often cited as cornerstones to the development of the stoner rock genre in the 1990s. When Kyuss split up in 1995, Homme moved to Seattle, Washington , briefly abandoning his desire for a music career and attending the University of Washington to study business. During this time, he fell back in with old musician friends such as Ben Shepherd and Mike Johnson , and eventually agreed to join
8214-649: The first time in sixteen years. The Desert Sessions have only performed live twice. The live performances, which included Joey Castillo , Troy Van Leeuwen , Brian O'Connor , and Homme, as well as a variety of musicians performing different songs, were performed on an episode of the British music television show Later... with Jools Holland , as well as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004. The art directors for Desert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12 , Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto, won in
8325-445: The first time the band has released an album with no featured guests on it. In 2018, the band was featured on Revamp , a cover album containing various renditions of Elton John songs, on which they performed " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ". The band's eighth album, In Times New Roman... , was released in June 2023. Homme founded The Desert Sessions in 1997 at the Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California , describing it as
8436-418: The following year. However, things remained silent until May 2019, when Homme posted an image on Instagram with the hashtags "#Desert, #Sessions, #11, #12". In September, it was announced that Desert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12 will be released on October 25, 2019. In 1998, Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal with friend Jesse Hughes as a joke band in the context of the Desert Sessions. Recordings from
8547-448: The following year. Homme added: "Because Desert Sessions works best at a certain time of the year, when everything slows and everyone takes a deep breath out. At the end of the year, in that December-January timeframe, everyone has exhaled. And post-exhale is the time to do something like that. So if I miss that window… I miss that window". Homme remained silent about the project until May 2019, when he posted an image on Instagram with
8658-818: The house and recorded the song in one take, the only time the song was ever played by the collective. In a 2007 interview with Rockline , Homme stated that he was going to be working on a new Desert Sessions album in December 2007, and the first ten will be re-released as a box set. Homme also stated: There's nothing going on [now]. I wish, but I've run out of time. I'm talking to this one guy about adding four more hours to each day, but he's not real positive about it. Those are never going to end, because there's no reason for them to end. But I'd like to make them more regular. – Josh Homme interview with Billboard.com, April 13, 2007 The Desert Sessions are gonna go on forever. There's no reason to stop them. No, it wasn't me that said there would be only 12 volumes—I'm gonna do 112! It's just
8769-439: The improvisational atmosphere of the ranch. For example, the song "Creosote" from Volumes 9 & 10 was written by Dean Ween and Alain Johannes on the ranch's front porch within four minutes of meeting each other. Similarly, Chris Goss and PJ Harvey wrote the song "There Will Never Be A Better Time" for I See You Hearin' Me after going out onto the porch of the ranch for four minutes with an acoustic guitar; they re-entered
8880-513: The members of Eagles of Death Metal . He is also referred to as "J.Ho." and "The Ginger Elvis ". Nick Oliveri referred to him as "Mr. Lucky". Homme has over 20 tattoos. On his knuckles, he has his grandparents' nicknames ("Cam" for "Camille" on the left and "Cap" on the right) with hearts and his two sons' names ("ORH" for "Orrin Ryder Homme" and "Wolf"). He has his daughter's name, also Camille, tattooed over his heart. His left arm has
8991-431: The mobile layout. The slideshow banner on the top of profile pages, which simultaneously slide-showed seven picture tiles of pictures posted by the user, alternating at different times in a random order, has been removed. In addition, the formerly angular profile pictures became circular. In April 2016, Instagram released a Windows 10 Mobile app, after years of demand from Microsoft and the public to release an app for
9102-450: The most popular on the platform often highlight a specific day of the week to post the material on. Examples of popular trends include #SelfieSunday, in which users post a photo of their faces on Sundays; #MotivationMonday, in which users post motivational photos on Mondays; #TransformationTuesday, in which users post photos highlighting differences from the past to the present; #WomanCrushWednesday, in which users post photos of women they have
9213-412: The name Sound City Players , to come up with a song called " Mantra ". Homme played bass and provided backing vocals on the track. Homme has appeared in a number of television comedies. In December 2014, Homme made an appearance on Channel 4 sitcom Toast of London . The star of the show, Matt Berry , had been working alongside Morgana Robinson (the half-sister of Homme's ex-wife Brody Dalle ) in
9324-487: The name of a location. Users can set their account as "private", thereby requiring that they approve any new follower requests. Users can connect their Instagram account to other social networking sites, enabling them to share uploaded photos to those sites. In September 2011, a new version of the app included new and live filters , instant tilt–shift , high-resolution photographs, optional borders, one-click rotation, and an updated icon. Photos were initially restricted to
9435-485: The next few years but his teacher mostly focused on polka , so he supposedly did not learn of a barre chord or a pick until his third year of lessons, lending to his unique playing style. He joined his first band, Autocracy, in 1985 at the age of 12. Despite his musical success, he continued to work on his grandfather's farm until releasing the first Queens of the Stone Age album at the age of 25, because he "didn't want to lose [his] grip on reality". In 1987, when he
9546-443: The platform deleted posts from users offering condolences for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh . On November 25, 2024, Instagram announced the introduction of the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages) for up to one hour. This new feature is only available in select countries. Users can upload photographs and short videos, follow other users' feeds, and geotag images with
9657-462: The platform. The platform previously had a beta version of Instagram, first released on November 21, 2013, for Windows Phone 8 . The new app added support for videos (viewing and creating posts or stories, and viewing live streams), album posts and direct messages. Similarly, an app for Windows 10 personal computers and tablets was released in October 2016. In May, Instagram updated its mobile website to allow users to upload photos, and to add
9768-421: The present day. The video marked the end of Campbell's musical career and was a retrospect on his life following his decision to retire after his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease . In July, he had a very brief cameo at the end of Jack White 's music video for " Freedom at 21 ", playing a police officer who intercepts White at a roadblock following White's escapades throughout the video. In September, he contributed
9879-702: The problem as possibly being DNS -related. On March 17, 2022, Zuckerberg confirmed plans to add non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to the platform. In September 2022, Ireland 's Data Protection Commission fined the company $ 402 million under privacy laws recently adopted by the European Union over how it handled the privacy data of minors. After being trialled in mid-2022, Instagram introduced Notes in December 2022. This feature allows users to share updates as short text posts of up to 60 characters with certain people, who can then reply to them using messaging on Instagram. In February 2023, Instagram introduced
9990-453: The project was cancelled before it later became Spec Ops: The Line in 2012. His work on the game would go unused. Homme was also set to provide music, including a cover of Joe Walsh 's " In the City ", for the 2005 video game adaption of the film The Warriors . This also went unused. Homme has been featured on compilation albums. He appeared on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen for
10101-473: The publication that it was only a concept. On December 6, 2016, Instagram introduced comment liking. However, unlike post likes, the user who posted a comment does not receive notifications about comment likes in their notification inbox. Uploaders can optionally decide to deactivate comments on a post. The mobile website allows uploading pictures since May 4, 2017. Image filters and the ability to upload videos were not introduced then. On April 30, 2019,
10212-563: The removal of ability to share feed posts to stories. In March 2021, Instagram launched a new feature in which four people can go live at once. Instagram also announced that adults would not be allowed to message teens who don't follow them as part of a series of new child safety policies. In May 2021, Instagram began allowing users in some regions to add pronouns to their profile page. On October 4, 2021, Meta services suffered their worst outage since 2008, bringing down Instagram, Facebook , and WhatsApp . Security experts identified
10323-442: The sake of music. That's why it's good for musicians. If someday that's not enough anymore, or that's not the reason behind you doing it—that's not your raison d'être —then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it's amazing. It's easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it. Desert Sessions songs are written "on the spot," often in a matter of hours. Many stories have sprung from
10434-650: The service for approximately US$ 1 billion in cash and stock. The Android version of Instagram was released in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited desktop interface in November 2012, a Fire OS app in June 2014, and an app for Windows 10 in October 2016. Although often admired for its success and influence, Instagram has also been criticized for negatively affecting teens' mental health, its policy and interface changes, its alleged censorship , and illegal and inappropriate content uploaded by users. Instagram began development in San Francisco as Burbn ,
10545-510: The setting has been described as creating a unique "desert sound" comparable to the grunge rock of Seattle in the early 1990s and the acid rock of San Francisco in the 1960s. The first Desert Session was not actually a "session" per se , but Homme and his band at the time (The Acquitted Felons) playing for three days straight on psychedelic mushrooms. Since then, the Desert Sessions have become legendary, growing in intensity and artistic merit. Homme said: At Desert Sessions, you play for
10656-536: The song "18 A.D." Homme and frequent collaborator Chris Goss performed as The 5:15ers at the inaugural ArthurBall, an offshoot of the ArthurFest festival, in Los Angeles on January 26, 2006. The two were later credited as "The Fififf Teeners" when they co-produced QOTSA's second album Rated R and fifth album Era Vulgaris . In August 2009, Homme collaborated with The Prodigy 's Liam Howlett for
10767-406: The song "Nobody to Love" to the soundtrack of the action-drama film End of Watch . In early 2013, Homme and fellow Queens contributors Alain Johannes and Chris Goss added three tracks each to the soundtrack of Dave Grohl's documentary Sound City: Real to Reel . Homme was interviewed for the documentary and is notably included in a scene where he collaborates with Grohl and Trent Reznor , under
10878-569: The soundtrack of the Rockstar action-adventure video game Red Dead Redemption 2 . The game features two versions of the song, with Homme's version playing over the end credits and Willie Nelson 's version playing during the epilogue. In 2020, Homme featured alongside Mavis Staples on the Run the Jewels song "Pulling the Pin" from their fourth album RTJ4 . Later that year, he and Staples joined Run
10989-534: The spot" in a matter of hours, and the line-up constantly changes, with new contributors being added for each new recording. Artists such as PJ Harvey , Twiggy Ramirez , Dave Catching , Nick Oliveri , Mark Lanegan , Ben Shepherd , John McBain , Josh Freese , Chris Goss , Alain Johannes , Dean Ween , and many others from the Palm Desert Scene have contributed to The Desert Sessions recordings. After 11 years of inactivity, Homme revealed in October 2014 that he would start working on more Desert Sessions material
11100-402: The studio. In choosing his equipment, he tends to look for the odd or unique, opting to stay away from the typical choices of other guitar players. In an interview about guitars in 2008, he claimed at the time to own close to 35 guitars, and said that only three of them were "really good". He has said that he purposely does not use famous guitars such as Stratocasters or Les Pauls , but that he
11211-473: The two joined Pop and Homme on tour, along with Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar and Matt Sweeney on bass. The band made their debut on January 21, 2016, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , announcing the album, and proceeded on a North American and European theater tour that March, culminating in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall , filmed and released as a concert DVD. The album's recording
11322-500: The various tracks on that particular week's playlist. The show's musical selections typically have some sort of thematic, stream-of-consciousness-type relationship to each other. In March 2016, Homme released a surprise album with Iggy Pop titled Post Pop Depression . The nine-track album was recorded at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California , as well as Homme's Pink Duck Studios. Their backing band included guitarist and keyboardist Dean Fertita and drummer Matt Helders ;
11433-830: The visually impaired. They are either generated automatically using object recognition (using existing Facebook technology) or manually specified by the uploader. On March 1, 2021, Instagram launched a new feature named Instagram Live Rooms, which lets four people go live together. In May 2021, Instagram announced a new accessibility feature for videos on Instagram Reels and Stories to allow creators to place closed captions on their content. In January 2011, Instagram introduced hashtags to help users discover both photos and each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant, rather than tagging generic words like "photo", to make photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagram users. Users on Instagram have created "trends" through hashtags. The trends deemed
11544-492: Was 14 years old, Homme formed a punk rock -influenced heavy metal band in Palm Desert High School called Katzenjammer with schoolmates John Garcia , Brant Bjork , Nick Oliveri and Chris Cockrell. Homme was the band's guitarist. After changing their name a few times, first to Sons of Kyuss (they released an EP of the same name ), they finally shortened it to Kyuss. The band garnered a cult following by
11655-555: Was 23 and she was 17; he was there to perform with Screaming Trees , while she was there to see her then-boyfriend Tim Armstrong 's band Rancid . They reconnected seven years later in 2003, during her separation from Armstrong, and began dating. Homme claimed to have received multiple death threats from fans of Armstrong and Rancid. The two were married on December 3, 2005. They have a daughter named Camille (born 2006) and two sons named Orrin (born 2011) and Wolf (born 2016). Dalle filed for legal separation in November 2019 and divorce
11766-510: Was also filmed and compiled into the 2017 documentary American Valhalla . In October 2016, Homme produced New Skin , the debut album from Nick Valensi 's new band CRX . In 2017, Homme composed the score for Fatih Akin 's German-language drama In the Fade , named after the Queens of the Stone Age song. In 2018, Homme sang a song written by Daniel Lanois called "Cruel, Cruel World" for
11877-576: Was announced that Instagram would, beginning in Canada, pilot the removal of publicly displayed " like " counts for content posted by other users. Like counts would only be visible to the user who originally posted the content. Mosseri stated that this was intended to have users "worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they care about." It has been argued that low numbers of likes in relativity to others could contribute to
11988-469: Was compared to the $ 35 million Yahoo! paid for Flickr in 2005. Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was "committed to building and growing Instagram independently." According to Wired , the deal netted Systrom $ 400 million. In November 2012, Instagram launched website profiles, allowing anyone to see user feeds from a web browser with limited functionality, as well as a selection of badges , and web widget buttons to link to profiles. Since
12099-452: Was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor, Snapchat , which allowed users to post their content to
12210-584: Was recorded shortly before Homme's lawsuit with Garcia regarding the Kyuss Lives! band name; it was the first time Homme had collaborated with Garcia since 1997. In June 2012, it was revealed that Homme would be starring in the music video for the song "A Better Place" from Glen Campbell 's final album Ghost on the Canvas . In the video, Homme plays a bartender who shows Campbell a photo album of his life, from his early childhood through his music career to
12321-621: Was revealed on Dean Delray's comedy podcast Let There Be Talk that Homme would make a guest appearance on the album by Oliveri's project Mondo Generator called Hell Comes To Your Heart . The album was recorded over three days at Homme's Pink Duck Studios in Burbank, California , and features Homme playing guitar on the album's final track, "The Last Train". This marked the first time Homme and Oliveri collaborated since their public falling out in 2004. "The Last Train" also features fellow former Kyuss bandmate John Garcia providing vocals, which
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