Josh Homme
Latest Josh Homme news, guitars, gear, music, performances, and collaborations covered by Guitar Radar.
Guitar Radar has 2 stories about Josh Homme, tracking new music, tours, collaborations and gear. Most of it sits under music. The most recent story, from Aug 31, 2026, is “Mastodon release 'Marrow Deep', their first album with guitarist Nick Johnston”. Coverage here goes back to Aug 30, 2026.
About Josh Homme
Josh Homme is the guitarist and singer of Queens of the Stone Age, and earlier of Kyuss, with a gear approach that is more thrift shop than showroom. His core amp is an Ampeg VT-40, ostensibly a bass amp, which he has played since he was a teenager and which helped define his unusual Kyuss tone together with his use of the neck pickup.
His guitars are eclectic and often modest: he has praised a $300 Epiphone as one of his "most faithful and greatest soldiers", plays a Maton signature twelve-string, and has used a Teisco, Gibson models and a MotorAve BelAire. Live, his sound often comes from the amp alone with minimal pedals, with a DigiTech Whammy used mostly in the studio. He is famously private about his gear, so published rig lists are fan-compiled snapshots.
Sources: Guitar World: Josh Homme's first guitar amp · Mixdown: Gear Rundown, Josh Homme · Far Out: Josh Homme on why he uses cheap gear
Stories
Mastodon release 'Marrow Deep', their first album with guitarist Nick Johnston
The August 28 record is Mastodon's ninth, their first as a five-piece, and their first since founding guitarist Brent Hinds left the band and later died.
Aug 31, 2026
Queens of the Stone Age set their ninth album, 'Perfecth,' for October 30
Josh Homme's band paired the announcement with the single 'Insignificant Other' and confirmed a nine-track record produced by Homme and bassist Michael Shuman.
Aug 30, 2026