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Taylor Hawkins Mourned by Tom Morello, Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Barker & More: ‘The World Was Lucky to Have His Gifts’
The Foo Fighters announced news of drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death on their social accounts late Friday (March 25), stunning the band’s fans and peers alike. Hawkins’ musical contemporaries immediately took to Twitter and Instagram to share their RIP messages for the drummer and to celebrate his “spirit and unstoppable rock power,” as Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello put it. Ozzy Osbourne remembered Hawkins as “a great person and an amazing musician.” Kiss’ Paul Stanley wrote that he was “speechless and gutted” by the news. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In the Foo Fighters’ own statement, the band highlighted the 50-year-old’s “musical spirit and infectious laughter.” Below, find updating musician reaction to the news: God ...
Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters Drummer, Dies at 50
Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters drummer, died on Friday at the age of 50. The Foo Fighters posted the news on their Instagram account on Friday evening. A rep for the Foo Fighters issued a statement confirming the news of Hawkins’ death. No cause of death has been revealed. “The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the statement said. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.” Hawkins first joined Foo Fighters in 1997 and every album the band has released since 1999’s There is Nothing Left to Lose. He also recorded drums on Coheed and Camb...
Watch Perry Farrell Join Foo Fighters Onstage to Cover Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Been Caught Stealing’
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The Best, The Mess & The Rest: Innings Festival 2022
Despite the fact that Spring Training isn’t happening this year, the Innings Festival still returned to the February baseball hotspots of Tempe, Arizona and Tampa, Florida. Green Day and the Lumineers are headlining the East Coast rendition in March while Foo Fighters and Tame Impala hit the desert this past weekend. The Arizona location featured a wide variety of baseball legends hanging out and quite a few activities. But it wasn’t all home runs. SPIN was on the ground at Tempe Beach Park for all of the rocking out and baseball fun. Here’s The Best, The Mess & The Rest of everything from this weekend. St. Vincent on Saturday evening. (Photo by Craig Cummins) The Best St. Vincent — Dave Grohl might’ve been the biggest rock star there by name, but St. Vincent was clearly the most inter...
Dave Grohl Has Trouble Naming Foo Fighters Songs on Corden
For the past few years, Dave Grohl has been up to something, if nothing everything. But Wednesday night on The Late Late Show With James Corden, the Foo Fighters frontman was stump by himself, literally. Grohl couldn’t name some of his own band’s songs during the “James That Tune” segment. [embedded content][embedded content] Alongside Hilary Duff, Corden began busting out some not-so-great piano skills on a kids’ electronic keyboard. After he played the chorus of the first song, Corden pointed at Grohl and said “You should know it.” “Is it “‘Everlong?’” Grohl initially guessed. It actually was “Learn To Fly” (But to be fair, no one could really guess). Oops. The exact situation above happened a second time, but Grohl appeared even more so done with Cord...
U2, Pixies, Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift Highlight Record Store Day 2022 Releases
Record Store Day has just released the list of exclusive pressings that will be available on April 23. In case supply chain issues get in the way of the planned date in April, a safety net’ date of June 18th was established as a backup. This year returns to the normal Record Store Day format since there will be a single date instead of the two “Drop” dates that took place in 2020 and 2021. Even with a single date, the list of exclusive releases is no less exciting. U2, Pixies, David Bowie Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Prince, Stevie Nicks, and Lou Reed, among many more, will release limited edition vinyl. Taylor Swift, the Record Store Day 2022 global ambassador, will release a seven-inch pressing of her bonus track “the lakes” from 2020’s folklore. U2 will celebrat...
Dave Grohl: Rock God, Workaholic, Movie Demon
“Let me just play this for you — I recorded it the other day,” says an enthusiastic Dave Grohl. It’s late January, and he’s sitting in his home studio, gearing up for the release of yet another project — one that’s different than anything he’s done before. Over Zoom, he fiddles around with knobs on his speakers. Seconds later, some demonic, bone-crunching riffs are blasting (or as loud as they can through my measly MacBook Air speaker), and the sounds of doom and gloom emanate. “I’m recording the lost album that they were making before the singer kills them,” Grohl says of the fictional Dream Widow, a band whose spirit looms large in his first feature film, Studio 666. He adds that he came up with the idea days before and now has a few weeks to finish the “album” before the movie hits...
Foo Fighters Jam Out With Muppets on New Song ‘Fraggle Rock Rock’
The latest Fraggle Rock revival, Back to the Rock, premiered on Apple TV+ yesterday, and to celebrate the occasion Foo Fighters revealed that they wrote a song for its soundtrack. Aptly titled “Fraggle Rock Rock,” the track sees Dave Grohl pay homage to the show’s original theme song while also penning some pretty wacky lyrics of his own. “We’re gonna rock our way to freedom/Gonna run right back and see ’em/ Gonna flip, flop, skippity hop/Back to Fraggle Rock,” he sings in the chorus. Jim Henson’s beloved series first aired in the mid-80s. This reboot follows the success of the Zoom-shot Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts that aired on Apple TV+ in 2020. “Jim Henson’s fun-loving, musical Fraggles are back!” a Back to the Rock show synopsis says. “Join Gobo, Red, Wembley, Mok...
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2022: Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, The Who to Headline
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will return with a stacked lineup. The 2022 headliners are the Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, The Who, Jimmy Buffett, Luke Combs, Lionel Ritchie, the Black Crowes, Willie Nelson, and Erykah Badu. The festival will take place from April 29 through May 8. The rest of the roster runs that gamut from Lauren Daigle to Ludacris (now that is an iconic duo), plus lots of tributes we can’t wait to see, from James Brown to Dr. Dog. This year’s Jazzfest will undoubtedly pay special tribute to local hero, Bennie Pete, the co-founder and sousaphone player of the transcendent New Orleans outfit, the Hot 8 Brass Band. Pete died in September at age 45 due to complications from sarcoidosis and COVID-19. Other notable acts slated for the fest include Elvis Costello ...
Watch the Trailer for Foo Fighters Upcoming Studio 666 Film
Last month, Foo Fighters announced they were releasing a long-in-the-works horror-comedy titled Studio 666. Now, you can see what Dave Grohl and company have in store for the big screen. In the first Studio 666 trailer, the band hunker down in a San Fernando Valley house to record a new album (that would eventually (?) in this fictitious world become Medicine at Midnight). Of course, hijinx ensue from there. Grohl battles supernatural forces (and is even possessed) that threaten to derail the whole process and could sink the band as well. [embedded content][embedded content] Studio 666 stars the Foo Fighters (Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Nate Mendel and Rami Jaffee) as well as Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega and Jeff Gar...
Our 21 Favorite Concerts of 2021
Ah, 2021 — the year live music (mostly) roared back. After 18 months of livestream drudgery, it felt like unicorns dancing on a rainbow every time someone so much as plugged in a guitar. It was a year of “post-vax concert stories,” where every show was a hard-won reunion, a triumphant homecoming, and a victory all at once. Strangest of all, it was the year when we found ourselves getting misty just being able to look out at a crowd, marveling at the gift of singing shoulder-to-shoulder with someone other than our cats. Okay, so we’re still a little sentimental. The point is, in a year when every show was a grand slam of catharsis and joy, it was slightly painful to narrow this list down. But after not getting to do one at all in 2020, we are ecstatic and proud to give you some of the highe...
Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, KISS Set to Headline 2022 Welcome To Rockville Festival
America’s largest rock festival, Welcome To Rockville, is set for 2022 at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida over the weekend of May 19-22. In the fest’s biggest lineup ever, tickets are on sale now to see the eclectic and ante-upping string of scheduled artists including headliners Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, KISS, and KORN, and artists Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, The Smashing Pumpkins, Breaking Benjamin, Megadeth, Jane’s Addiction, Papa Roach, Rise Against, Halestorm, In This Moment, Seether, Bush, Mammoth WVH, Dirty Honey, Poppy, Plush and more. The festival is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents. “Welcome To Rockville this past November was truly incredible,” Danny Wimmer Presents founder Danny Wimmer said in a statement. “Our new home, Daytona International Speedway,...
