Idolator

Perhaps in celebration of guitarist Brian May finally publishing his doctoral thesis after all these years, Queen + Paul Rodgers—the Bad Company-vocalist-augmented version of the classic pomp-rock outfit—have decided to call their forthcoming album The Cosmos Rocks. (Sadly, there's no exclamation point in the title.) Looking at this sketch of May's thesis makes me wonder if the album, which comes out next month, is going to draw on inspiration close to home: More »