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Photos 1 & 2 by Aliya Naumoff, photo 3 by Lyndsay Siegel

Josh Homme and his Queens of the Stone Age crew give off badass rock'n'roller vibes like it's their job, which it sort of is. So if seeing them dressed to the nines in holiday sweaters best suited to little old ladies doesn't totally contradict their image, it at least complicates it. Truth told, who among us doesn't like to get in touch with his or her inner octogenarian once in a while?

But for what occasion did these hard rocking dudes don such festive duds? A holiday television special, of course. Specifically, an episode of chef Anthony Bourdain's Travel Channel show "No Reservations", according to a report from Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily blog.

The forthcoming episode finds Queens rocking the basement of Bourdain's Connecticut home while he is upstairs cooking a holiday feast for them to enjoy together. In addition to their own tunes, the band also performs a version of "Silver Bells", renamed "Turkey Bells".

The report goes on to say the episode will include "karaoke, surly adolescents, and a Japanese businessman." As for those sweaters, Homme said, "I think someone Googled the word 'horrible,' and that's how we found them."

Queens of the Stone Age have plenty of tour dates to keep them busy until the wacky holiday special airs. Their next show is tomorrow, September 14, in Austin, Texas.

Oh, and below, we've included a picture from the MTV VMAs of Homme with Mastodon's Brent Hinds, who we're told is recovering well from his head injury.

Dates:

09-14 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival
09-15 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa %
09-16 Dallas, TX - House of Blues %
09-17 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater !%
09-19 Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues %
09-20 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon %
09-21 Jacksonville, FL - Plush %
09-22 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle %
09-24 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel %
09-25 Norfolk, VA - The Norva %
09-26 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live %
09-28 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall %
09-29 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory %
10-09 Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
10-12 Boston, MA - Orpheum #^
10-13 New York, NY - Theatre at Madison Square Garden #^
10-15 Toronto, Ontario - Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts ^
10-16 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis ^
10-17 Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights #^
10-20 Columbus, OH - The LC Pavilion #^
10-22 Grand Rapids, MI - Orbit Room #^
10-23 Detroit, MI - Fillmore #^
10-24 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave #^
10-25 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theater #^
10-27 Las Vegas, NV - Vegoose Festival
10-29 Los Angeles, CA - Nokia Theater
11-16 Dortmund, Germany - Westfalenhalle 2
11-17 Stuttgart, Germany - Messe Congress B
11-18 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
11-19 Nuremburg, Germany - Lowensaal
11-21 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36

% with Dax Riggs
! with Arctic Monkeys
# with Biffy Clyro
^ with the Black Angels