Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures is unswervingly faithful to its pedigree. This power trio consists of Dave Grohl, frontman of the Foo Fighters and former drummer in Nirvana, Josh Homme, best known as the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, and John Paul Jones, the former bassist in Led Zeppelin. That their output delivers a punch to the gut can only be seen as the fulfillment of a promise. The band doesn't feel like naked derivation, but its parentage is hammered home with every fat and bruising riff.