Is it just me or does it feel like this year there’s been far more holiday songs released than usual? In the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen Christmas tunes come from indie artists like Phoebe Bridgers, The Beths, and Say Sue Me. Today, Queens of the Stone Age are joining the yuletide fun by releasing a pair of quirky Christmas songs. The A-side is cover of “Silent Night” by Queens frontman Josh Homme and Australian musician C.W. Stoneking. The B-side isn’t really a song at all but a reading of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Homme, his wife Brody Dalle, and their children. It’s actually pretty cute.
The band released the songs with a statement of intention of “spreading year-end tidings of comfort and joy whether you want [them] to or not.” Proceeds from the holiday tunes with go partially to the Sweet Stuff Foundation, a non-profit founded by Homme which provides assistance to musicians and recording engineers facing illness and disability, and partially to Support Act, who has a similar mission of providing “financial assistance we are able to give as a grant, awarded in acknowledgment of an artist or music worker’s contribution to Australian music.”
Listen to the songs below.
The yuletide cover is the A-side of a 7-inch benefiting the Girls Rock Camp Foundation
"Christmas Song" is a cover of McCarthy Trenching's 2008 song.
The South Korean surf-rock band contemplates the joy of the holiday season with the title track from their upcoming Christmas EP.
