The new Foo Fighters album has finally been labeled with a release month: November. Apparently, this album would be a turning point, marking the evolution of the Foos as a band and showing us where they are now: “Like, I couldn’t just write a three-and-a-half-minute long KROQ jingle and film it for the finale of an episode about the history of music in New Orleans, ya know? We really had to step up what we…
Check out Nirvana’s Performance featuring Joan Jett, Lorde and St. Vincent
Nirvana Source Yes, this is about that Nirvana band which used to feature Kurt Cobain as singer and guitarist. It seems that the band was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with this occasion at the ceremony also attended the former Nirvana members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain’s ex-wife Courtney Love and family. Check out below the band’s acceptance speech: Even though the band lost…
Lemmy to release new solo record
Source Just Lemmy Well, this came as a surprise for me. Every time I see something about Lemmy, I have to admit that I am a little bit afraid to read it, because, you know, his health issues. But this time we’ve got great news, Lemmy officially announced that he’s going to release a new solo record. No, I ain’t done yet with the music…After I get better, we’re gonna try to…
New Joan Jett video: Any Weather
Source Joan Jett for PETA The female rock’n’roll icon, Joan Jett released a new video for one of the songs from her latest album, Unvarnished. The album was released on September 30th this year, and it’s the band’s newest album in 7 years. Any Weather, was wrote in collaboration with Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters. Even though the song sounds like a rock’n’ roll love song, if you watch the video you’ll…
Dave Grohl: ‘New Nirvana Will F–king Happen’
Now now, don’t get your hopes up – this isn’t about Nirvana reuniting or something like this – it’s about another band with a Nirvana-like impact. “We meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people,” he told the Guardian. “That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” Dave Grohl went further, explaining that the…
Dave Grohl wants to create super-supergroup, with members of Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Rage Against the Machine and many more
Supergroups are not really a novelty or a shock, but what Dave Grohl is planning is just crazy: he wants to create a group called the Sound City Players, with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear (long time colaborator, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett, Alain Johannes, Chris Goss, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk and more (not…
Nirvana to actually tour with Paul McCartney?
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the members of Nirvana reuniting with Paul McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert last week. They actually performed a brand new song, “Cut Me Some Slack”, rather than go for any Nirvana or Beatles tracks. They went on to perform Saturday Night Live, which left fans asking a logical question: will they do some more stuff together? According to bass player Krist Novoselic, the answer…
Nirvana reunite with Paul McCartney – for one concert
It’s a last minute bid for “What the hell?!” of the year: Paul McCartney will front a reformed Nirvana at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert tonight. Both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are joining in, as will Pat Smear who once toured as an additional Nirvana guitarist and now plays the Foo Fighters. With Kurt Cobain openly expressing his admiration for McCartney, this will be as close to a Nirvana reunion as we’ll ever get…
Queens of the Stone Age release cryptic teaser
The Queens of the Stone Age have released a handwritten letter to Mojo magazine, explaining why their new album has been delayed for more than a year and why this might actually prove to be a good thing. The QOTSA album is definitely one of the most expected of the year, and one which will likely not disappoint, especially considering they have Dave Grohl on drums again, Trent Raznor working with them on several tracks…
Dave Grohl to play drums on new Queens of the Stone Age album
So it’s been a while since a Queens of the Stone Age record. More than a little while, actually: Their last effort came out in 2007. Well that’s all gonna change sometime in the near future, apparently. Frontman Josh Homme tweeted the above pic to not only announce that a new record is in the works, but that Dave (fucking) Grohl will be rejoining the band behind the drum kit. The decision to bring Grohl back came…