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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.
Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
Not death metal but, according to band member and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, “bluegrass slide guitar mixed with stripper drum beats and Canned Heat vocals.” Together with journalist-turned-singer Jesse Hughes, Homme has invented concocted the perfect side project: a fun-loving party-rock band with a fondness for not-so-subtle sexual innuendoes about torpedoes in tight pants. And forget the allusions to the Eagles—there’s no laidback “Hotel California” here, only horny odes to L.A. booty.
