News making lots of people here at HQ very very happy: Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Dave Grohl (ummm… every band ever), and John Paul Jones (Zeppelin!) have linked arms to become Them Crooked Vultures.

These guys made their live debut on the final night of Lollapollooza at the Metro in Chicago, and people around the globe have been breaking into manic sweaty air-drumming fits and salivating at the sum total of 33sec of audio we’ve been handed.

Check out a sneak peek of the guys in the studio. The track is Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I.

What does this have to do with us at theinsound you ask? Well, Josh worked with the Arctic Monkeys in the Mojave Desert on their new album Humbug (out this Friday)… OK it’s a long shot but I’m excited about Josh and Dave playing together!

We’ve blogged about the Homme & Turner connection previously, but now everyone has had a chance to hear the heavy tripped-out QOTSA influence all over Humbug… Listen to the backing vocals on Potion Approaching from the Monkeys’ July Web Transmission. 2:08-3:08 is straight off the Desert Sessions 9&10, don’t ya think?