{"id":380178,"date":"2026-10-22T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380178\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:14:26","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-book-st-paul-grand-casino-arena-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380178\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age book St. Paul Grand Casino Arena concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandcasinoarena.com\/events\/detail\/queens-of-the-stone-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Queens of the Stone Age<\/a> will play their largest local concert to date when they headline St. Paul\u2019s Grand Casino Arena on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 29 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandcasinoarena.com\/events\/detail\/queens-of-the-stone-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">grandcasinoarena.com<\/a>. Fans who register at <a href=\"https:\/\/qotsa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">qotsa.com<\/a> by Oct. 25 have access to a presale on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Alt-rock legends the Pixies open alongside Wheelchair Sports Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist\/guitarist Josh Homme formed the group 30 years ago after the dissolution of his previous band Kyuss. He recorded everything on QOTSA\u2019s self-titled 1998 debut himself, save for the drums.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of the group\u2019s sophomore effort \u201cRated R,\u201d Homme had recruited a loose and ever-changing group of musicians to back him, including former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan. The album\u2019s lead single \u201cFeel Good Hit of the Summer\u201d earned QOTSA plenty of attention due in part to its lyrics, which consisted almost entirely of the names of various illicit substances, including ecstasy, Vicodin and cocaine. That led to opening slots for the Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters and Hole.<\/p>\n<p>Nirvana\/Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl joined the band for 2003\u2019s \u201cSongs for the Deaf,\u201d which spawned the radio hits \u201cNo One Knows\u201d and \u201cGo with the Flow.\u201d That same year, QOTSA opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers at the venue formerly known as Xcel Energy Center and returned to the arena two years later on a bill with Nine Inch Nails.<\/p>\n<p>By 2013, Homme had built a permanent band lineup that remains the same to this day. They played Roy Wilkins Auditorium in 2014 and 2017, the Palace Theatre in 2017 and the Armory in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Queens of the Stone Age will issue their ninth album \u201cPerfecth\u201d on Oct. 30. The following day, the band will celebrate the release with special events in record stores around the world, including the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis and Down in the Valley in Golden Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acclaimed rock band Queens of the Stone Age will play their largest local concert to date when they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5362,139458,4983,9,24,63,122,124,123,904],"class_list":["post-380178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-concerts","tag-downtown-st-paul","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380178","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=380178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}