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Archive for the ‘Foo Fighters’ Category

July 28th, 2008

Foo Fighters Releasing Wembly DVD

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 […]

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July 24th, 2008

Foo Fighters Greatest Hits Arriving This November

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”, […]

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May 22nd, 2008

Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips to salute The Who

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 […]

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March 9th, 2008

Foo Fighters - Baker Street

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 […]

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February 19th, 2008

Foo Fighters Already Working On New Music

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 […]

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February 11th, 2008

Foo Fighters Win Two Grammys

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 […]

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January 2nd, 2008

Dave Grohl To Join Led Zeppelin?

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 […]

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December 11th, 2007

Rage/Foo Fighters To Headline Pinkpop

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 […]

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December 6th, 2007

Foo Fighters Snag Four Grammy Nominations

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 […]

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November 26th, 2007

Foo Fighters North American Tour

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 […]

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