{"id":526986,"date":"2026-07-15T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526986\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:17:14","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-auckland-show-on-2026-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526986\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age announce Auckland show on 2026 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Queens of the Stone Age are set to play one show at Spark Arena this December. Photo \/ Queens of the Stone Age\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Queens of the Stone Age are set to play one show at Spark Arena this December. Photo \/ Queens of the Stone Age<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Before the general public sale, an artist presale is set to run from 11am on July 16 until 10am on July 20, and a Live Nation presale will open at 11am on July 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">The tour announcement comes alongside the release of single Easy Street, their first new music since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Homme described the track \u201cas kind of a funny song\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s like hitting your funny bone, where it\u2019s funny because it hurts and it hurts because it\u2019s funny. You\u2019re serious, but it\u2019s funny\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about silliness. It\u2019s about understanding the imperfection of your life. The song, like your life, is in the mistakes. Its imperfections are unbeatable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Featuring vocals from country singer Nikki Lane, Homme said Easy Street was recorded with a deliberately rough, live feel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe made it the way you\u2019d make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren\u2019t great, but they\u2019re not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can\u2019t fake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age are set to play one show at Spark Arena this December. Photo \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2246,7127,8239,25429,45621,51,63946,29804,7500,156,160364,111,139,69,1118,90,5202,69656,13382,1629,260509,84484,1305,28723,223,1961,208,102,80],"class_list":["post-526986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-2246","tag-age","tag-american","tag-announce","tag-announcing","tag-auckland","tag-australasian","tag-date","tag-december","tag-entertainment","tag-heavyweights","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-part","tag-queens","tag-returning","tag-rock","tag-sevenshow","tag-shores","tag-show","tag-stone","tag-the","tag-this","tag-tour","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526986","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=526986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}