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Foo Fighters Have Dropped a Disco Album: Listen
Foo Fighters‘ new Bee Gees tribute band—yes, this is real—have dropped their debut album, Hail Satan. While the arrival of Dee Gees feels like a fever dream, there’s no denying how well they’re filling these new dancing boots. When Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl first announced the new venture, he shocked fans by revealing that his drumming inspirations during his early years in Nirvana were actually disco pioneers. Hail Satan is a full circle moment, featuring four Bee Gees covers, a rework of Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing,” and five live versions of songs frok Medicine Midnight, the band’s most recent studio album. The album arrives shortly after a sold-out, full capacity show at Madison Square Garden. Sadly, that ho...
Foo Fighters Transform Into Dee Gees For ‘You Should Be Dancing’ Video
The Foo Fighters are gearing up to release their Bee Gees cover album HAIL SATIN! next week, and to get us excited they’ve fully transformed into the Dee Gees in a video for “You Should Be Dancing.” The special LP was created for Record Store Day and will feature one side of Bee Gees tunes with the other compiled of live versions of songs from the Foos’ recently released Medicine at Midnight (which you can read our review of here). The Foos originally covered the Bee Gees hit earlier this year. “We started recording the instrumental track, and then I thought, ‘Okay, well I’m gonna go out and sing it…’ and let me tell you: I have never, ever in my life sung like that, but it was the easiest song I have ever sung in my entire life!” Grohl said at the time, referring to singing in ...
Foo Fighters Release Short Film on Madison Square Garden Concert, The Day The Music Came Back
Foo Fighters and Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. teamed up to release The Day The Music Came Back, a short documentary film made of footage from the band’s June 20 post-pandemic return to the stage at the legendary NYC venue. The 10-minute movie captures behind-the-scenes conversations amongst workers and fans on how Madison Square Garden was able to be filled at full capacity again during the fully vaccinated show. Watch The Day The Music Came Back below. [embedded content] The film shows Dave Grohl opening the show with “Times Like These” for the 15,000 fans in attendance. “I’ll tell you something, for the last year I had this reoccurring dream that I would walk on stage and we would look at each other for the first time,” Grohl says in the film. “We’d just look at each other l...
Dave Grohl Says He Lifted Drumming Techniques From Early Disco Pioneers During Nirvana Years
Foo Fighters surprised the music world last week after revealing they were working on covering several Bee Gees hits under a new disco alias they’re calling the Dee Gees. As the dust continues to settle, frontman Dave Grohl—who spent four years as the drummer for legendary rock band Nirvana—has added some additional context to the forthcoming music, revealing that he derived inspiration from disco since the early days of his career. As NME notes, Grohl’s illuminating comments came in a new interview with Pharrell Williams. “I can’t read music. I couldn’t then, and I still can’t now. All I wanted to do was be in a line of drummers all playing drums,” Grohl said. “If you listen to Nevermind, the Nirvana record, I pulled so much stuff from The Gap Band, and ...
Foo Fighters, Mark Ronson Team for Remix of ‘Making a Fire’
The Foo Fighters don’t stop, do they? Today, Dave Grohl and company released a remix of “Making a Fire,” which was produced by none other than Mark Ronson. The track features members of Antibalas, the Budos Band, the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, La Buya, Menahan Street Band), the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Tuatara. Also featured on the remix is Grohl’s daughter, Violet, on vocals. Listen to it below. [embedded content] Earlier this week, the Foos played the biggest show in New York City since the lockdown ended (and in turn, since the pandemic started) at Madison Square Garden. They were joined by Dave Chappelle for a version of Radiohead’s “Creep.” You can read our review of the show here. Foo Fighters played their first show since the pandemic in suburban Los Angeles the week before...
Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Dead & Co, Lizzo Highlight New Orleans Jazz Fest Lineup
New Orleans Jazz Fest is the latest event to make its return this fall. Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Dead & Co, Lizzo, Jimmy Buffett and Demi Lovato are the headliners of the two-weekend extravaganza. It takes place on the weekends of Oct. 8-10 and 15-17 at the Fair Grounds Race Course. Also appearing in this grab bag of a lineup are the remnants of The Beach Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Randy Newman, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Brittany Howard, The Black Crowes, The Isley Brothers, H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Ziggy Marley (performing the songs of his father, Bob Marley), and many, many others. General admission and VIP tickets are on sale now through the festival’s website. Jazz Fest usually takes place in the spring, but alas, you know how the past few...
Foo Fighters Are Releasing a Disco Album Under a Bee Gees Tribute Alias
Foo Fighters are now a Bee Gees tribute band. No, this is not some kind of out of season April Fools joke. After a masterful return to the stage over the weekend at Madison Square Garden, their first post-COVID performance, the iconic rock band were quick to announce their next big musical endeavor—becoming the Dee Gees. Fans won’t have long to process the surprising development as the group’s forthcoming disco record under the new alias is out next month. According to Rolling Stone, the 10-track offering, titled Hail Satin, will bundle five Bee Gees classics—“You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy,” “More Than a Woman,” and “Shadow Dancing—along with five disco-inspired editions of songs from Foo Fighters’ recent album, Med...
Foo Fighters to Play Forum in First 100 Percent Capacity Show in Los Angeles
Two days after reopening full-scale live music in New York City, the Foo Fighters are going to do the same thing in their home of Los Angeles. Dave Grohl and company will be performing at the Forum in Inglewood on Saturday, July 17, the first full-capacity indoor show in the area. Coincidentally, the show takes place on the same day that the band’s Bee Gees tribute album is released. If it’s anything like their tiny club show in suburban Los Angeles in Agoura Hills (about an hour or so away from the Forum without traffic) and at Madison Square Garden, it will probably be pretty eventful. And that’s not to mention the anti-vax protesters who picketed outside of both shows. If you remember, Dave Chappelle joined the band for a version of Radiohead’s “Creep,” which surprised most everyone in ...
Foo Fighters Reopen Madison Square Garden With Musical Medicine for the Masses
Lyrics to the Foo Fighters’ opening aural salvo summed up a historic night and extraordinary experience: “It’s times like these you learn to live again.” The setting was Madison Square Garden, the occasion? NYC’s first full capacity arena concert since COVID-19 lockdowns began in March 2020. There was audience speculation about New York-centric guests along the lines of a Billy Joel, and murmurs of why an artist with area ties like KISS or Bruce Springsteen didn’t reopen the World’s Most Famous Arena. That said, it was immediately clear that the Foo Fighters were the perfect choice for New Yorkers to celebrate the city’s reopening with a much-welcomed infusion of communal energy, camaraderie and joy. The group’s consummately crafted arena rock stylings are classic – and now 26 years since ...
Watch Dave Chappelle Sing Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ With Foo Fighters
Dave Chappelle and the Foo Fighters are pals, that much we saw last year during their appearance on Saturday Night Live together. But at Foo Fighters’ show at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, the first 100% capacity show in New York State since the pandemic, they took things to another level. The comedian joined the band in a surprise performance to cover Radiohead’s “Creep.” Chappelle, who was in town for the Tribeca Film Festival and the premiere of his documentary, has sung the ’90s classic in the past, in particular with John Mayer. Check out Chappelle and the Foos’ performance below. [embedded content] Ahead of the show, just like the show in Agoura Hills last Tuesday, the Foo Fighters were met by protests by anti-vaxxers (including actor Ricky Schroeder) but it didn’t...
Foo Fighters to Cover the Bee Gees on Record Store Day Album
If you looked carefully at the footage from the Foo Fighters show in suburban Los Angeles on Tuesday, you could see on drummer Taylor Hawkins’ kit a photo of one of the Bee Gees. Now, we (sorta) know why. Today, the Foo Fighters announced they’ll be releasing a (sorta) Bee Gees cover album for Record Store Day on July 17. Billed as “the Dee Gees,” the group’s album (aptly titled HAIL SATIN!) will feature one side of Bee Gees tunes with the other compiled of live versions of songs from their recently released Medicine at Midnight (which you can read our review of here). Foo Fighters are slated to play at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday night, marking the city’s first arena show since the COVID-19 shutdown last year. This is also the kickoff of the band’s 26th-anniversa...
Foo Fighters Cover Queen at First Medicine at Midnight Show
Even in the face of anti-vax protesters who were upset that they couldn’t get into the show, Foo Fighters performed a rollicking 23-song set — including the proper live debut of Medicine at Midnight songs — at the Canyon Club in the Los Angeles suburbs on Tuesday night. The show took place on the first day that California was officially reopened for vaccinated people. The 600-person capacity show was announced over the weekend. Along with playing new songs, the Foos also covered Queen’s “Somebody to Live,” which saw drummer Taylor Hawkins hop out from behind the kit for vocal duties. Check out that performance below. [embedded content] See more of the action below. [embedded content] [embedded content] Foo Fighters are slated to play at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday...
