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24 September 2026 – Queens of the Stone Age Go Goth Shopping on Crunchy New Single
By Editorial Team - September 24, 2026
Summary
Josh Homme recalls teenage mall obsessions on 'Where the Goth Girls At?', the third preview from Queens of the Stone Age's ninth album Perfecth.
Key Facts
- Queens of the Stone Age released 'Where the Goth Girls At?' from ninth studio album Perfecth, due October 30 via Matador.
- Features strings and horns arranged alongside Homme's signature minimalist desert-rock guitar riffing.
- Accompanied by a music video directed by Christopher Gruse and Tony Wolski filmed in an abandoned power plant.
- Entities: Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme, Perfecth, Matador Records, Christopher Gruse, Tony Wolski, Steve Agee, Palm Desert
- Tags: queens-of-the-stone-age, josh-homme, perfecth, matador-records, desert-rock, indie-rock, alternative-rock
Queens of the Stone Age have released "Where the Goth Girls At?," the third preview of their forthcoming ninth studio album Perfecth, due October 30 through Matador. Josh Homme reaches back to his Palm Desert adolescence for inspiration, remembering the goth girls working department-store counters and the teenage gravitational pull of anyone who looked considerably cooler than you did.
Musically, the song keeps its shoulders narrow before opening into a bigger chorus, with minimalist riffing joined by strings and horns. Christopher Gruse and Tony Wolski direct the accompanying video, which imagines an abandoned power plant overtaken by goth women who appear determined to convert anybody wandering into their territory. Steve Agee, Scarlett Kapella and Lou Lou Safran join the band onscreen.
The single follows "Easy Street" and "Insignificant Other" and arrives as QOTSA prepare for further North American dates before shows in Japan and Australia. Perfecth is therefore developing into an intriguingly strange record rather than a simple exercise in desert-rock muscle memory. Homme has survived enough genuinely serious material over recent years; hearing him build a song around adolescent fascination, black eyeliner and JCPenney is almost reassuring. Teenage love remains ridiculous, and fortunately ridiculous subjects have produced excellent rock songs for decades.