Josh Homme's Real Name: Josh Homme

Quick answer: The musician is known professionally as Josh Homme. AllMusic lists a May 17, 1973, birth date in Joshua Tree, California, and says Kyuss, his earlier band, hailed from Palm Desert, California. This page titles him under the public name.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify him under the professional name Josh Homme. AllMusic lists the birth date as May 17, 1973, in Joshua Tree, California, and records nicknames including Baby Duck and Carlo Von Sexron, which are not treated here as legal names. The same AllMusic biography says Kyuss formed in the late 1980s and hailed from Palm Desert, California, where the band built a following with desert generator parties. NME later discusses him as the Queens of the Stone Age frontman in a 2017 interview but does not independently list a birth date or birthplace.

Career highlights

AllMusic says Homme was part of Kyuss and later Queens of the Stone Age, and that Kyuss issued Wretch in 1991, Blues for the Red Sun in 1992, Welcome to Sky Valley in 1994, and ...And the Circus Leaves Town in 1995 before breaking up that year. The same account says he later toured with Screaming Trees after their 1996 album Dust, began the multi-volume Desert Sessions series, and formed Queens of the Stone Age with former Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez, releasing a self-titled debut in 1998 on Stone Gossard's Loose Groove label. AllMusic later lists Rated R (2000), their first release for Interscope, Songs for the Deaf (2002), which it describes as a modern classic featuring the hit "No One Knows," Lullabies to Paralyze (2005), and Era Vulgaris (2007). The same account says the band toured with Hole, the Foo Fighters, and the Smashing Pumpkins and appeared at Ozzfest 2000 and the third Rock in Rio. It also records him as a member of Eagles of Death Metal, with Jesse Hughes, and of Them Crooked Vultures, and notes later production work for Arctic Monkeys and Iggy Pop. NME independently discusses later Queens of the Stone Age work, including the 2013 album ...Like Clockwork, which it says featured guests including Elton John and Alex Turner, and the 2017 album Villains, produced by Mark Ronson.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Josh Homme are looking for the same musician, including the Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss work most often associated with his name. This page uses the public professional name.