Blog: PopMatters

When I saw Them Crooked Vultures at their first show at the Metro, nobody knew what to think of "Interlude with Ludes", with John Paul Jones coaxing a cheesy tune from a keytar and Josh Homme vamping around the stage like a campy seductress, but it at least showed Homme's supreme self-confidence and disregard for a stodgy, hypermasculine stomp-rock image, for what people expect him to be. The same will probably go for Julian Casablancas...