Queens of the Stone Age plan a May 2027 US tour with Pixies

A new album and a spring tour

Queens of the Stone Age release their ninth studio album, Perfecth, on Friday 30 October 2026, and will take it around North America next spring. On 22 October the band announced a 16-date run in May 2027 with Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp as special guests, Chad Childers reported for Loudwire. The announcement came the day after they played Where the Goth Girls At? on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The North American leg is part of a wider world tour. Before it, the band play Mexico City with Interpol on 6 March 2027 and the Lollapalooza festivals in Buenos Aires, Santiago and São Paulo in March. They also finish 2026 with dates in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, after a sold-out show in Reykjavík on 24 October, their first in Iceland since 2005, according to Radio X.

It is a busy return for a band whose 2024 was cut short by their singer's health. In 2024 Queens of the Stone Age cancelled their European summer shows so that Josh Homme could have emergency surgery, and then called off all their remaining shows that year so he could receive what the band called essential medical care, Michael Sun reported for The Guardian.

Jenny Mensah reported this first for Radio X. Checked against Loudwire: Queens of the Stone Age Book 16-Date North American Trek as Part of 2027 World Tour.

The 16 dates

The tour opens at Viejas Arena in San Diego on 1 May 2027, then plays the Kia Forum in Inglewood on 2 May, Oakland Arena on 4 May, Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on 5 May, Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on 7 May and the Moda Center in Portland on 9 May.

It moves inland to the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on 11 May and Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver on 12 May, then Grand Casino Arena in Saint Paul on 14 May, the American Family Insurance Amphitheater in Milwaukee on 15 May and Allstate Arena in Rosemont, near Chicago, on 16 May.

The final week takes in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on 18 May, Nationwide Arena in Columbus on 19 May, the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh on 21 May and Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on 22 May, before the closing night at TD Garden in Boston on 24 May.

An artist presale was set for 10am local time on 28 October, for fans who had signed up by 25 October, and the general sale for 10am local time on Thursday 29 October, Loudwire reported.

What Perfecth is

Perfecth was announced on 25 August with its first single, Insignificant Other, Max Persad reported for the Official Charts Company. Homme described the song as being about distance, and about how someone can be your entire world and then simply vanish. Explaining the title, he said that nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be "perfecth", a joke he said was funny in a group but less so when you are alone.

The album has nine songs: It's Only Love, Insignificant Other, Where the Goth Girls At?, Mono, From the Cliff, Sunday, Easy Street, Phantom Limb and Run Away From the Mob, Paul Brannigan reported for Louder. It was produced by Homme and the band's Michael Shuman and is released by Matador. A press statement compared it to kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, and said its songs map different kinds of love, of family, friends and others.

Easy Street, the second single, is a country-tinged song featuring the American country singer Nikki Lane, and Where the Goth Girls At? is about teenage love and wanting to impress, Jenny Mensah reported for Radio X. Homme said the idea came from watching goth girls working the counter at JCPenney and giving makeovers to older women. He has also been working outside rock, singing on Faded Blue Jeans, a track on Shania Twain's album Little Miss Twain.

It follows In Times New Roman..., released in 2023, which was the band's first record in six years. Homme said then that the four years before it had been "the darkest four years of my life".

Two hard years

Shortly before In Times New Roman... came out, Homme revealed in an interview with Revolver that he had been treated for cancer in 2022, Ben Beaumont-Thomas reported for The Guardian. He gave few details beyond saying that he had surgery and that it was successful, and called the cancer "just the cherry on top of an interesting time period".

That period also included a long and bitter custody dispute with his former wife, the singer Brody Dalle, which has been reported in detail by The Guardian. Dalle testified in court that Homme head-butted her; Homme has said Dalle was violent towards him, and both have taken out restraining orders against the other. Homme now has full custody of their children, after Dalle's boyfriend was found to have forged her signature on an application for a restraining order, Snapes noted.

In a Guardian column in September, Laura Snapes criticised what she called the cosy makeover around the new album, including a novelty complaints hotline for fans, and argued that audiences had been too willing to look past the allegations against Homme and a 2017 incident in which he kicked a photographer. Homme apologised at the time for that incident, saying he had kicked the photographer's camera into her face and that he had no excuse for what he did.

The band came back quietly in 2025. They filmed an unplugged performance in the catacombs beneath Paris, the 320km ossuary that holds the remains of some six million people, released it as a film and live album, and then took new arrangements of their songs on a short Catacombs Tour of theatres, ending at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29 October 2025, Jenny Mensah reported for Radio X. A Berlin date on that tour was cancelled at the last minute; the band said the concert organiser had failed to tell them the venue could not stage the show, and that they were angered, frustrated and shocked.

Earlier, in June 2024, they had headlined the Download festival, where Matt Mills, reviewing for The Guardian, found little showmanship and no pyrotechnics in a near two-hour march through their back catalogue. In 2022 Homme sang David Bowie's Let's Dance with Nile Rodgers at the tribute concert for the Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Alexis Petridis reported.

After the 2024 cancellations, the band returned in 2026 with a summer supporting System of a Down in Europe and the UK, including two shows at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, and stadium dates in North America with Foo Fighters, according to Radio X and the Official Charts Company.

Thirty years of the band

Homme has fronted Queens of the Stone Age since he formed the band in 1996. The singer Mark Lanegan, formerly of Screaming Trees, joined for their 2000 breakthrough Rated R and sang on highlights of the 2002 album Songs for the Deaf, Stevie Chick wrote for The Guardian when Lanegan died in 2022. Chick described Lanegan as a member at large who kept guesting on later records after he left the core group.

Reviewing the band at Wembley Arena in 2017, on the tour for their Mark Ronson-produced album Villains, Chick wrote that they played heavy rock with every hoary macho cliche taken out, their riffs full of wit and sensuality, and called them rock's last remaining outlaws. At the end of the night Homme limped off with a leg injury that had troubled him all year, and Chick wondered how much longer the 44-year-old could keep delivering such relentless entertainment. Today the line-up is Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore.

Their guests on the May tour have their own long history. Pixies' run of records from Come On Pilgrim in 1987 to Bossanova in 1990 still stands as one of the cornerstones of modern indie rock, Phil Mongredien wrote for The Guardian in 2024, though he found their latest album, The Night the Zombies Came, the fifth in a decade, an echo of past glories. Wheelchair Sports Camp open the shows.

Prices we are tracking

We have tracked 12 of the US dates on StubHub since 26 October, and prices have fallen across the run since then, through the general sale on 29 October. At about 8.30am UK time on Friday 30 October, the cheapest tickets for most dates were between about $55 and $71 before fees, plus StubHub booking fees at checkout.

Detroit was the cheapest at $55.16, down from a high of $100.16 since 26 October, followed by Boston at $58.13, Indianapolis at $59.23, Portland at $61, down from a high of $104.98, Oakland at $62.73, and Sacramento and Seattle at $63 each. Rosemont was at $64.32, San Diego at $65.15, Salt Lake City at $68.95 and the Kia Forum at $70.82.

Red Rocks is the exception. The cheapest ticket for the 12 May show was $144.47, more than twice the price of most other dates. All of these figures are before fees, plus StubHub booking fees at checkout.

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