Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen recently guested on 2 Hours With Matt Pinfield and revealed the band is due to start recording a new album by the end of the year.

Van Leeuwen: "We've already started talking about what we're gonna do next for the next Queens record. There's tons of ideas that are bouncing around. We're going to do something before the end of the year, as far as recording goes. We're excited to get back together to follow-up ...Like Clockwork, which was a really, really big record for us, personally. It was a big record for us because it was the hardest record to make, and we're trying to not do that again. We just want to keep things simpler and try that."

Lo Sound Desert, the video documentary about the Californian Desert music scene, which gave birth to bands like Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Fu Manchu and more, was released on July 1st via Monoduo Films. A decade in the making by filmmaker Jörg Steineck (Truckfighters), Lo Sound Desert is the definite music documentary about desert rock. A video trailer can be found below.

Lo Sound Desert provides a deep, intimate look into the Low Desert music scene’s history with never-ending jams in the middle of the desert which continues to live on with the same vitality, authenticity and resilience as two decades ago. Lo Sound Desert is narrated by Josh Homme (Kyuss, Eagles Of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures), Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Fu Manchu), Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Orquestra del Desierto, Ten East, The Perfect Rat) and many other from bands like Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Mondo Generator, Dali’s Llama, Hornss, Slo Burn, Unida and Fu Manchu.

What was started by revolting punk rock kids throwing parties in the middle of the desert - hidden from narrow-minded authorities of suburban America in the early 80s, became a movement over the years.

“If my opinion matters, this film is very authentic.” - Brant Bjork (Kyuss)

“Outstanding! One of the rare rock documentaries that will survive.” - Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson)

From endless jams in unconditioned rehearsal garages to wasteland venues to smoked-up European backstage rooms: ‘Desert Rock’, a specific vibe of pure analog rock music, was fostered by the beauty of a surrounding that naturally provides a lot of space. Until nowadays it continued its slow-moving underground spread and became international treasure. In a way Desert Rock never reached extreme popularity like simultaneously grown, commercially hyped Grunge Rock in the early 90’s. But it still seems to be around and inspires new generations of rock bands to carry on.

Photo lifted from the Queens Of The Stone Age Facebook page