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Foo Fighters Announce 2022 North American Tour
The newly inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters—in addition to everything else they and frontman Dave Grohl are doing this busy year—are ready to hit the road again. This morning, the Foo Fighters announced a slew of 2022 North American tour dates. The 17-date run will have the Foos performing in amphitheaters, stadiums, and festivals beginning in May next year. Tickets go on sale at 10 am local on Friday, Dec. 3. This is the band’s most extensive run throughout North America since the tenth studio release Medicine at Midnight. More tour information and details of special guests will be announced soon. Citi cardmembers can access the official presale beginning 12 p.m. ET Tuesday, Nov. 30 until 10 p.m. local Thursday, Dec. 2. Foo Fighters Foo Fighters 2022 Tour Dates 5/...
Foo Fighters Share New Video for ‘Love Dies Young’ Featuring Jason Sudeikis
At this point, we all know how busy the Foo Fighters have been in 2021. Between the films, documentaries, tours, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and trolling the Westboro Baptist Church, Dave Grohl and company have done it all. They released Medicine at Midnight, their 10th studio album and also put out a Bee Gees covers album for Record Store Day in July. Today, the band shared a new video for “Love Dies Young” that was written and directed by Grohl. The video stars Ted Lasso‘s Jason Sudeikis, which is a spoof of…Ted Lasso. Sudeikis plays a swimming coach, whose swimmers are none other than the Foo Fighters (whose faces have been superimposed on swimmers’ bodies). As usual, it’s a pretty memorable video from a band with a history of putting out hilarious ones. [embedded content][embe...
Why the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Was the Best in Years
After skipping a year due to the pandemic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2021 class with a wild, surprise-guest-filled party held in the town many argue is the ceremony’s only rightful home: Cleveland, Ohio. What a homecoming it was. Paul McCartney became a seventh Foo Fighter. LL Cool J, Eminem, and J. Lo blew up the night like old-school hip-hop Avengers. And later, LL was the only person on the arena floor to stand and clap for the late, great Biz Markie. Both Carli(s)les — Brandi and Belinda — were in the house. Drew Barrymore did Ponds performance art. [embedded content][embedded content] The Go-Go’s swore to use their induction to get more female bands into the painfully male-dominated institution. And, randomly, Survivor host Jeff Probst was there — the sol...
Watch Foo Fighters Play the Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ With Paul McCartney at Rock Hall Induction
Foo Fighters were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last night by none other than Paul McCartney. During his powerful introduction speech, Macca likened his experience in the Beatles to Dave Grohl‘s experience in Nirvana. “We had a great time with our groups, but then eventually tragedy happened, and my group broke up. The same happened with Dave: His group broke up under tragic circumstances. And so then the question is, what do you do now?” he said. “And we both were presented with that question. In my case, I thought, ‘Well, I’ll make an album where I play all the instruments myself.’ So I did that. Dave’s group broke up — what’s he do? He makes an album where he plays all the instruments himself. Do you think this guy’s stalking me?” After giving a short but sweet speech o...
Foo Fighters Bring Glorious, Stadium-Size Rock to Rare Club Show
“Well this is nice, this is quaint,” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said, taking in the audience Thursday night at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio. He tucked his mane behind both ears like a professor adjusting his reading glasses. It’s been a while since Grohl, 52, could recognize faces from the stage since he mostly performs to thousands in football stadiums. “How the hell did everyone get tickets for this?” Grohl joked. “I’m just assuming, a good internet connection?” The spectacular one-off show marked the beginning of Rock Hall weekend. On Saturday, a Beatle will induct all six members — Grohl, guitarists Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear, keyboardist Rami Jaffee, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer Taylor Hawkins — into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Foos...
The 50 Best Rock Bands Right Now
First, let’s take care of the obvious. Despite the still-persistent narrative that such music is “dead,” there are way more than 50 excellent rock bands out there. And there’s no exact science to scooping the cream of the crop. Our list includes arena-packing veterans but also semi-obscure indie acts who’ve barely escaped their basements. There are no hard rules here. Our methodology was simple: ask our writers and staff which rock bands feel worthy of recognition right now. But we did aim for a wide scope — throughout, you’ll find flavors of psych, post-punk, hardcore, metal, even country. If it feels like rock, it’s on the table. Consider SPIN‘s 2021 roundup — just like last year’s — a thermometer, taking the temperature of modern rock in all its various mutations. Altın Gün Ho...
Foo Fighters and Tame Impala Set to Headline Innings Festival 2022
Foo Fighters and Tame Impala are set to headline the fourth annual Innings Festival, returning to Arizona’s Tempe Beach and Tempe Arts Park on February 26 and 27, 2022. Featuring 20 bands on two stages, the festival will feature performances by Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, St. Vincent, Black Pumas, Dashboard Confessional, White Reaper, Nothing But Thieves, Caamp, and more. Fitting with its name, Innings fest-goers can also look forward to appearances by Major League Baseball greats including Roger Clemens, Jake Peavy, Dave Stewart, Rick Sutcliffe, among others. On the beach and arts park grounds, fans can enjoy food from curated food vendors and take part in fun baseball-related games and activities. Innings is brought to Arizona by C3 Presents, the same team behind the festival great...
Dave Grohl Shares Trailer for Upcoming Memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl is releasing his first book, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, on October 5, and now we’ve got a new look into what will be in it. The trailer for Grohl’s memoir features old home videos and his decision to write about his life. “My life flashes before my eyes every single day. And in writing this book, I’ve tried to capture those moments as best I can,” he says. Grohl continues by explaining that for the first time in a long time when the pandemic hit, he had time on his hands. Initially starting off by writing stories for fun on an Instagram page, the Foo Fighters frontman discovered his passion for writing and came up with the idea for his own memoir. Check out the trailer below and what else he had to say. [embedded content] The trailer comes just days after the band...
MTV VMAs 2021: Foo Fighters Take Home Global Icon Award, Perform Hits Medley
It’s been a big year for the Foo Fighters. We can go into that ad nauseam but will spare you. But at this year’s edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, Dave Grohl and company were the recipients of the Global Icon Award. According to the award’s description, it “celebrates an artist/band whose unparalleled career and continued impact and influence has maintained a unique level of global success in music and beyond. The VMAs will honor the global icon who has left an indelible mark on the musical landscape and continues to influence, inspire, and evolve.” The award is typically presented at the MTV EMAs, with this being its first time given at the VMAs. Previous recipients include Queen, Whitney Houston, Eminem, Green Day, and U2, among others. Billie Eilish introduced the band and said “th...
Foo Fighters Troll Westboro Baptist Church by Covering Bee Gees’ ‘You Should Be Dancing’ Outside of Kansas Show
The Dee Gees, A.K.A. the Foo Fighters, busted out some big moves last night ahead of a show in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The Foo Fighters struck the latest blow in their battle against the Westboro Baptist Church (who were protesting their show) by trolling them with a live performance (on a flatbed truck no less!) of the Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing.” As they put on their dancing shoes, singer Dave Grohl said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I got something to say. Because you know what? I love you,” adding, “The way I look at it, I love everybody. That’s what you’re supposed to do.… I deliver all of my love, and you shouldn’t be hating. You should be dancing.” Dave Grohl & The Foo Fighters trolled the Westboro Baptist Church outside their concert in Kansas tonight. PLAYING DISCO. pic....
The 40 Greatest Music Video Artists
Music videos are the perfect bastard child of art and commerce, even more than pop music itself. A promotional visual accompaniment to a popular song doesn’t need a coherent narrative (although on rare occasions, they do). It just needs to suit the song, sell the record, and possibly make the artist look cool. But since the launch of MTV 40 years ago this week, a select few recording artists have helped raise music videos to an art form — sometimes by accident, and sometimes by carefully curating the work of brilliant directors like Mark Romanek, Hype Williams, and Spike Jonze. Here are 40 artists from the last four decades that helped video kill the radio star. 40. Lil Kim [embedded content] Although earlier female MCs like Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah used music videos to help launch th...
The Secret Side of Dave Grohl: Our 2005 Foo Fighters Cover Story
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of SPIN. In honor of the Foo Fighters headlining Lollapalooza again tonight, we’re republishing this article. The road to Studio 606, the new multimillion-dollar Foo Fighters headquarters, isn’t paved with gold. Rather, it’s paved with common asphalt, marred by rush-hour traffic, and dotted with all the symbols of suburban sprawl: take-out chicken joints, chain drug stores, a drive-thru Starbucks. On the heels of the band’s 2002 back-from-the-brink-of-breakup album, One by One (like all Foo releases, certified platinum), singer/guitarist Dave Grohl could’ve set down roots anywhere. After all, Foo Fighters are that rarest of breeds—a remarkably consistent, long-lasting rock band—and their global success, not to mention Grohl’s n...
