Homme Injured in Bar Brawl

Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme was injured in a bar brawl in New York City on April 6th, forcing the guitarist to cancel a show with his side project Eagles of Death Metal that night.

Homme and Distillers' frontwoman Brody Dalle were at Niagra, a bar in the City's East Village neighborhood following an Eagles gig when Homme and another patron reportedly exchanged angry words and blows at about 2:30 a.m. Homme's publicist said he was injured in the skirmish, which prompted the cancellation of the Eagles of Death Metal's appearance in Philadelphia that night. Homme had sufficiently recovered to appear on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on Wednesday night.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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