THEM CROOKED VULTURES - the new supergroup featuring John Paul Jones (LED ZEPPELIN), Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS) and Josh Homme (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) - have issued the following update:

"By overwhelming demand, second concerts announced in Sydney and Melbourne (Australia) - January 23rd, Melbourne, Festival Hall and January 27th, Sydney, Hordern Pavilion.

Pre-sale tickets to the new shows will be available via frontiertouring.com from 2 PM (AEDT) on Wednesday, December 2nd. General on-sale tickets are available Friday, December 4th at 9 AM."

More on the band, including their live itinerary, at this location

The self-titled album from Them Crooked Vultures has debuted on the Billboard 200 at #12 with 70,000 copies sold in it's first week of release.

As reported earlier, the band have shot a video for their single 'New Fang' with director Paul Minor (Queens Of The Stone Age, SCARS ON BROADWAY).

Dave Grohl spoke with The Toronto Star recently about his new band. When asked about the chance for the three of them to play together, Grohl said, "Who's going to let that go to waste? None of us needs to be in this band, but none of us would want to be anywhere else, you know? No, that's not true. I need to be in this band because the feeling I get playing with the Vultures, I don't get anywhere else."

Grohl indicated that he wanted to get back to playing drums after more than 13 years fronting Foo Fighters. He explained, "I'm a drummer . . . I want a band to play the drums in. But I'm not just gonna go eke out with some band that doesn't matter, I wanna do something that's gonna make people's heads spin. And that's why I'm in a band with Josh and John."

Regarding the band's self-titled debut, which arrived in stores last Tuesday (November 17th), Grohl said, "I think we knew within the first month or two that we were making something that had a lot more weight or depth to it than some side project."

The Foo Fighters did tape an episode of VH1 Storytellers that will premiere this Friday (November 27th).