“New Fang” by Them Crooked Vultures

"New Fang" was the first song Them Crooked Vultures ever worked on and the first single from their self-titled 2009 debut, the calling card of a Los Angeles supergroup: Josh Homme sings, Dave Grohl pounds the drums, and John Paul Jones shares the lyric credit with them both. The band produced it themselves, Alan Moulder recorded and mixed it, and the thing swings, all hip-rolling riff and loose-limbed strut. The New York Times' Nate Chinen, catching it at a New York show that October, heard a hint of Southern boogie and counted it among the band's more buoyant numbers.

It went to radio in late October 2009 and cracked the top ten of the Alternative Songs chart, and at the Grammys in February 2011 it took Best Hard Rock Performance, the last song ever to win that award before it was retired.

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