{"id":163652,"date":"2025-12-02T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:05:08","slug":"tame-impalas-kevin-parker-nerds-out-over-deftones-queens-of-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163652\/","title":{"rendered":"Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Nerds Out Over Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tame Impala<\/a>\u2019s Kevin Parker let his love for Deftones<\/a> and Queens of the Stone Age<\/a> shine through in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Amoeba\u2019s What\u2019s in My Bag series<\/a>,\u00a0Parker walked through some of his favorite, most meaningful albums of all time. Watch it below.<\/p>\n

Get Tame Impala Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n

After talking briefly about how much he loves music from bands like Silverchair and Coldplay, Parker opened up about being a huge fan of Deftones\u2019 White Pony album. \u201cI was obsessed with this album,\u201d said Parker. \u201cI had been into a lot of nu metal stuff since I was a kid. Deftones was really the one that carried me through my teenage years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s another album where [if] I hear songs now, it almost hurts to hear them,\u201d Parker continued. \u201cIt takes me right back there to being a fragile human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker also spoke at length about Queens of the Stone Age\u2019s Rated R album, calling it a \u201cvery important album for my musical upbringing\u201d and saying the songs \u201cmade me feel like I was on drugs before I even took drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis album taught me that rock music can be hard, but also totally sexy,\u201d Parker added, before revealing how his guitar\u00a0is \u201ctuned down because of this album. I still haven\u2019t tuned up to standard tuning.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cQueens of the Stone Age definitely changed the way I play guitar \u2014 I went from just trying to be as angry and angsty as possible to just like being really controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker released his most recent Tame Impala album,\u00a0Deadbeat<\/a>, in October. Read our review of one of the Brooklyn shows<\/a> on his recent US tour.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s currently on an Australian run ahead of dates in Europe and the UK next year. See the full schedule at the Tame Impala website<\/a>, and get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker let his love for Deftones and Queens of the Stone Age shine through in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-163652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}