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The Foo Fighters will be releasing a DVD from their two night stand at London’s Wembly Stadium on August 23.
The DVD will capture 18 tracks from the band’s June 6 and 7 performances, including the Foos jamming with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on “Rock and Roll” and “Ramble On”.
Pretty cool if you ask me.
Here’s the tracklisting for Foo Fighters: Live At Wembly Stadium:
‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’
‘No Way Back’
‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)’
‘Learn To Fly’
‘Long Road To Ruin’
‘Breakout’
‘Stacked Actors’
‘Skin And Bones’
‘Marigold’
‘My Hero’
‘Cold Day In The Sun’
‘Everlong’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘All My Life’
‘Rock And Roll’
‘Ramble On’
‘Best Of You’
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The Foos will be releasing a greatest hits compilation this November, and that’s all the info we have for now.
The package will most likely look something like this: “I’ll Stick Around”, “Big Me”, “Everlong”, “Monkey Wrench”, “My Hero”, “Learn to Fly”, “Breakout”, “All My Life”, “Times Like These”, “Best of You”, “DOA”, “No Way Back”, “The Pretender”, “Long Road To Ruin” and hopefully some non-album tracks like “Baker Street”, “The One”, and/or “Darling Niki”.
Honestly, the only way I would buy this would be if it came with a DVD of all the band’s videos and some other special features. …read more

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Three of the greatest alternative bands ever will honor one of the most legendary bands ever.
The event will be for VH1’s Rock Honors, which will take place on July 12 at the Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus in L.A. This will be the third year for Rock Honors, but will be the first to focus on only one band.
Pearl Jam, the Foos and Lips will each perform before The Who close out the show. More performers, presenters, etc. are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets for this once in a lifetime show go on sale June 6 …read more

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I’ve been working with some guys recently, laying down some vocals for one of their demos. Turns out I unknowingly lifted the vocal melody from the Glenn Rafferty song “Baker Street”! It’s so weird how music can influence us on a subconscious level. While I re-work the chorus, let’s take a listen to the Foo Fighter’s version from the Color And The Shape recording sessions.
Here’s a cool little video montage of the band throughout the years, set to the tune:

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Foos bassist Nate Mendel informed Billboard that the band is working on some new material during their current tour.
Mendel stated that the band are using time during their sound-checks to mess around with the new tunes, which could be lead to the follow up to last year’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace…which I still say is their best album yet.
However, Mendel didn’t get our hopes up too much, because he also said that he doesn’t know when the band will hit the studio. After-all, the Foos will be on the road for pretty much the rest of this year and they will obviously …read more

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Dave Grohl and company snagged two Grammys at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards; the band also performed with an orchestra consisting of winners from YouTube’s “My Grammy Moment”, who were conducted by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.
The Foos won Best Rock Album for their awesome Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, as well as, Best Hard Rock Performance for “The Pretender”.
The Foos were also nominated for Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Rock Song. But I’m sure that the band isn’t complaining, since they now have three Best Rock Album Grammys (the other two album being One By One …read more

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I was browsing around the music channel here at b5 and saw a post on Brit Music Scene about Dave Grohl wanting to replace the legendary John Bonham behind the drum kit.
The former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters frontman is one of my favorite musicians around, and I love Zeppelin too, so this sounds like a dream come true. It would just be sick. Grohl is hands down on the best drummers out there and I think he could handle himself pretty well with Zeppelin.
But…would this actually happen? Would die hard Zeppelin fans welcome him as the replacement for …read more

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I just read that Rage Against The Machine and the Foo Fighters will be headlining this year’s Pinkpop Festival in Holland.
The legendary festival will take place on May 30-31 and June 1.
You lucky Europeans getting another killer festival.
Until then, the reunited Rage Against The Machine will be hitting the road down under at the Big Day Out Festival; while the Foo Fighters are currently out promoting their fantastic new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.

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I’m not a big fan of big awards; but I was pleased to see that the Foo Fighters are getting respect for their latest release, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (which is just an awesome album, and I do believe that it’s their best).
The Foos have been nominated for some pretty big awards, such as Record of the Year (for “The Pretender”) and Album of the Year.
Dave Grohl and company are also nominated for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song, again for “The Pretender”.

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If you haven’t heard, the Foo Fighters are going to embark on an North American early next year.
What could make their live shows better? How about bringing back guitarist Pat Smear and the addition of Rami Jaffee on keyboards and Jesse Greene on strings. This is going to add so much depth to their live shows; it’s certainly one that you don’t wanna miss.
As of now, here is the current itinerary; but more dates are likely.
Dallas, TX American Airlines Center (January 23)
Memphis, TN FedExForum (25)
Nashville, TN Nashville Municipal Auditorium (26)
Worcester, MA DCU Center (February 18)
New York, NY Madison Square Garden …read more

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