{"id":211239,"date":"2026-04-27T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:04:10","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-reunite-with-ex-bassist-nick-oliveri-at-catacombs-tour-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211239\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age reunite with ex-bassist Nick Oliveri at Catacombs tour kick-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Nick Oliveri performs onstage during Burger Records Showcase at Joy Eslava on February 18, 2018 in Madrid, Spain. (Mariano Regidor\/Redferns)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/83cc42fbe2328d56c7b2be45ceb2ac73.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Oliveri performs onstage during Burger Records Showcase at Joy Eslava on February 18, 2018 in Madrid, Spain. (Mariano Regidor\/Redferns)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queens of the Stone Age launched the 2026 leg of their Catacombs tour Friday in Joshua Tree, California, and the show featured a surprise appearance by the band&#8217;s former bassist, Nick Oliveri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oliveri joined Josh Homme and company onstage for the\u00a0Rated R cut &#8220;Auto Pilot.&#8221; It marked the first time Oliveri&#8217;s performed live with Queens since 2014, and the second time since he parted ways with the group in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queens posted photos from the concert on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/queensofthestoneage\/p\/DXkzxaWCX87\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>, included a shot with them alongside Oliveri.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There were more desert freaks per square foot than any other show last night &amp; it made me proud to celebrate among my people,&#8221; the post&#8217;s caption reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Queens of the Stone Age tour continues Monday in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Oliveri performs onstage during Burger Records Showcase at Joy Eslava on February 18, 2018 in Madrid, Spain.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[83497,2136,60421,9,24,25146,63,122,124,123,2856],"class_list":["post-211239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-burger-records","tag-california","tag-joshua-tree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nick-oliveri","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-of-the-stone-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}