Brody Dalle has been found guilty of contempt during her ongoing custody battle with ex-husband Josh Homme. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff ruled that the Distillers singer “willfully” kept her 5-year-old son away from a court-mandated visit with Homme on Sept. 3, Rolling Stone reports. Dalle was dismissed on another contempt charge involving her 10-year-old son, who the judge said made the choice not to see his father under his own volition. He also dismissed charges that Dalle had prevented the Queens of the Stone Age frontman from speaking with his sons on video calls. The verdict comes after Dalle pleaded “not guilty” to contempt last month, claiming she “demanded” her sons go to their dad’s but they “refused.” “I demanded they go and I pleaded with them,” Da...
UPDATE: 10:45 am PST: Two judges (one in downtown Los Angeles and one in Santa Monica) have denied the request for a restraining order. Following the denial, Homme’s attorney, Susan Wiesner gave a new statement, saying, “The allegations made by Ms. Dalle against Mr. Homme are categorically false. In order to protect the children, we will not be making any further statements.” On Sept. 8, Distillers singer Brody Dalle filed two requests for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders (DVRO), on behalf of her two young sons Orrin and Wolf Homme, ages 10 and five, respectively, against their father and her ex-husband, Queens of the Stone Age singer-guitarist Josh Homme. In the state of California, minors can legally file for a restraining order if a copy of the restraining order is sent to at ...
The Distillers may very well be one of the most important punk bands from the first half of the 2000s. In four years, they released three albums (each more successful than the last), captured a unique sound that molded classic, straightforward punk rock with the attitude and emotion of the decade, and turned frontwoman Brody Dalle into one of the era’s most identifiable vocalists. As part of a heavily male-dominated scene, Dalle and her bandmates showed millions of then-teenaged millennials that ladies too could pierce their lips, spike their hair, and rock just as hard as men without needing the mainstream commercial appeal of a No Doubt or Garbage. Then the band pretty much immediately fell apart and before breaking up in 2006. Dalle went on to form Spinnerette with guitarist Tony “Bradl...
Brody Dalle from the Distillers, Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance, Tucker Rule from Thursday, Adam Turla from Murder by Death, and GG from Soul Glo are in the giving spirit this Thanksgiving season. The musicians teamed up for a punky version of Annie Lennox’s “Walking on Broken Glass” in the latest installment of Two Minutes to Late Night. Series host Gwarsenio Hall sings into a mirror; Dalle, wearing a sports bra, dances in her kitchen and sings from her bed and the others just let it rip. There have been a ton of great Late Night collabs to brighten 2020, including members of Mastodon covering Alice in Chains; killer covers of Rage at the Machine and Rush (featuring members of Mastodon, Coheed and Cambria, Tool and Primus). Check out “Walking on Broken Glass...