{"id":296484,"date":"2026-07-15T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:19:17","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-australian-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296484\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age announce Australian tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Live Nation confirmed the run this morning, with Queens of the Stone Age playing seven outdoor and arena shows across the two countries. It\u2019s the band\u2019s first time back in the region since 2024, and the current lineup of Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore will be rolling out an entirely new production for the occasion. Presented by Double J, the tour lands in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena on 13 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Primus, the Les Claypool-led trio who spent the 90s bending funk, metal and whatever else was lying around into something unclassifiable, are along for the whole run, as are Melbourne-adjacent art-punk outfit Tropical Fuck Storm, who released their fourth album Fairyland Codex in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Queens of the Stone Age Australia and New Zealand 2026<\/p>\n<p>8 December: The Drive, Adelaide<br \/>\n11 December: MyState Bank Arena, Hobart<br \/>\n13 December: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne<br \/>\n15 December: Afterpay Arena, Sydney<br \/>\n16 December: Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle<br \/>\n18 December: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane<br \/>\n20 December: Spark Arena, Auckland<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Catch up on all the latest news\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mixdownmag.com.au\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The announcement arrives alongside Easy Street, the band\u2019s new single through Matador Records and Remote Control Records. It\u2019s their first fresh material since In Times New Roman in 2023, and it\u2019s a fair bit gentler than you might expect from the title, built on acoustic guitar and drifting synthesisers with Nikki Lane sharing vocal duties opposite Homme. The accompanying clip, directed by Tony Wolski and Christopher Gruse from an idea by Homme, involves a chase sequence, a mall Santa and a very small horse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Australian and New Zealand audiences will be the first to see the new show, which follows the band\u2019s current European dates with System of a Down, a run of US shows with Foo Fighters and a headline date in Iceland in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Tickets move through a few stages before general release. The artist and Mastercard presales open 16 July at 11am and close 20 July at 10am, with a Live Nation presale running from 17 July at 11am. General public tickets go on sale 20 July at 11am. All times are local.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">For more information, head\u00a0<a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Nation confirmed the run this morning, with Queens of the Stone Age playing seven outdoor and arena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-296484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296484","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=296484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}