Perfecth is Queens of the Stone Age’s ninth studio album, a nine-song Matador Records release due October 30, 2026. Produced by Joshua Homme and Michael Shuman, the record is also the center of a campaign that has moved through three advance singles, a network television performance and a newly announced 16-date U.S. tour scheduled for May 2027.
The tour makes the scale of the new chapter clear. Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp will support every announced date, beginning May 1 in San Diego and ending May 24 in Boston. Yet the concerts are best understood as the culmination of the Perfecth rollout rather than as a separate announcement.
What Is Perfecth?
Matador Records identifies Perfecth as the ninth Queens of the Stone Age studio album. The label, the band’s official store and Apple Music list its release date as October 30, 2026, with nine tracks completing the record.
The album follows In Times New Roman…, which Matador released on June 16, 2023. That makes Perfecth the next full studio statement from a band whose recording history stretches back to its 1998 self-titled debut.
Official album listings credit Homme and Shuman as producers. They are also part of the five-member Queens of the Stone Age lineup alongside Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore. The joint production credit gives Perfecth a notable internal partnership: the album was guided by two musicians working from within the band itself.
Those listings do not explain exactly how Homme and Shuman divided their responsibilities. Without more detailed production notes or interviews, it would be premature to assign particular sounds, arrangements or studio decisions to either musician. What can be said is that Perfecth carries a shared production credit rather than being presented solely as a Homme production.
Three Singles Introduced the New Album
Queens of the Stone Age introduced Perfecth through three advance songs: “Easy Street,” “Insignificant Other” and “Where the Goth Girls At?” The official album track listing includes all three, while Pitchfork and The Label identified “Where the Goth Girls At?” as the third single in the sequence.
That order matters because it allowed the album to emerge in stages. “Easy Street” opened the campaign, “Insignificant Other” accompanied the album’s formal announcement, and “Where the Goth Girls At?” became the song that carried the rollout onto network television.
The sequence gives listeners several entry points before the complete nine-track record arrives. It also avoids asking one single to represent the entire album. Without relying on unconfirmed interpretations of the songs’ themes or lyrics, the release pattern itself shows how Queens of the Stone Age have gradually expanded the public view of Perfecth.
Why the Fallon Performance Matters
On October 21, 2026, Queens of the Stone Age performed “Where the Goth Girls At?” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Pitchfork and BraveWords both described the appearance as the song’s live debut.
The timing gave the performance a larger role in the campaign. One day later, the band announced its 2027 U.S. tour. The television appearance therefore worked as more than a routine performance tied to an approaching album release: it placed one of the new songs before a network television audience immediately before attention shifted toward the road.
There has been no cited statement from the band or Matador explaining that sequence as an official promotional strategy. Still, the progression is difficult to miss. Three singles established the record, Fallon supplied a high-profile live showcase, the album’s scheduled release will complete the introduction, and the tour will extend the era into the following year. Describing that as a coordinated campaign is an editorial reading of the confirmed schedule, not a quoted claim from the group.
Homme and Shuman’s Production Partnership
Joshua Homme remains Queens of the Stone Age’s frontman, singer and guitarist, but the Perfecth credits also place Michael Shuman in a prominent creative role. Crediting the two bandmates as co-producers makes their partnership one of the clearest distinguishing details currently available about the album.
Shuman’s production credit is particularly useful for understanding Perfecth as a band project. The record’s official materials connect its studio leadership directly to the performing unit that will bring the songs to the stage. Homme, Shuman, Van Leeuwen, Fertita and Theodore form the lineup associated with this era, while Homme and Shuman receive the production credit.
More complete credits may eventually clarify the contributions of engineers, additional musicians or other studio personnel. For now, the confirmed information supports a careful conclusion: Perfecth was produced from within Queens of the Stone Age, with Homme sharing that responsibility with Shuman.
From Album Release to Arena Tour
The announced U.S. tour begins roughly six months after the album’s scheduled release. According to matching itineraries published by Pitchfork and Loudwire, the run includes 16 dates from May 1 through May 24, 2027. Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp are scheduled to appear throughout the tour.
The route begins at Viejas Arena in San Diego and continues through California before heading north to Seattle and Portland. It then moves inland through Salt Lake City and Morrison, Colorado, before reaching the Midwest and Northeast. The final announced show is at TD Garden in Boston.
The full route breaks down as follows:
- May 1–5: San Diego, Inglewood, Oakland and Sacramento
- May 7–12: Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City and Morrison
- May 14–19: Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Rosemont, Indianapolis and Columbus
- May 21–24: Pittsburgh, Detroit and Boston
Pairing Queens of the Stone Age with Pixies gives the tour a strong connection to multiple generations of alternative rock, while Wheelchair Sports Camp broadens the bill further. For the Perfecth story, the arenas and other large venues will provide prominent public settings for the new material.
The Bigger Picture of the Perfecth Era
The 2027 tour is the most visible part of the campaign, but it is not the beginning of the story. Perfecth first took shape publicly through its singles. “Where the Goth Girls At?” then moved from advance release to its reported live debut on Fallon. The album is scheduled to follow on October 30, and the U.S. dates begin the next May.
That progression explains what Perfecth is beyond its basic release details. It is a nine-track album, the band’s ninth, and a co-production by Homme and Shuman. It is also the organizing center of Queens of the Stone Age’s next touring cycle.
Several questions will remain after the record arrives: how much of the album will enter the nightly set, whether more North American dates will follow and whether expanded credits will provide a fuller account of the recording process. What is already apparent is the shape of the campaign: first the songs, then the network showcase, then the album and finally the U.S. tour.
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