It’s not often that we invoke the name of God in these pages, but it’s also not often that the Lord sends us a rock star like Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes to art direct Pop Shots.

Since forming Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, Jesse Hughes has been a sexual dynamo on and off the stage. Prior to that, he says he was a devout Christian with a tendency toward naughty thoughts in church — and far from a ladies’ man. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, and, as Hughes puts it, “I felt like Penthouse and I were on a collision course. It was kismet. It was meant to be.”

Hughes’s new album is coming out September 24, on his 43rd birthday; Zipper Down celebrates the idea that “if you’re going to live any way, you might as well live with your zipper... Read More