Guns N’ Roses welcomed surprise guest Dave Grohl to perform “Paradise City” during the band’s Saturday set at Napa Valley, California’s BottleRock festival. However, due to a strict curfew, organizers pulled the plug on the all-star collaboration midway through the performance. With the Foo Fighters scheduled to headline Sunday night …
Read More »See Foo Fighters Troll Westboro Baptist Church With Bee Gees Classic Before Kansas Concert
Foo Fighters’ tour returned to Kansas Thursday, giving the band an opportunity to reignite their longstanding feud with the Westboro Baptist Church, which routinely descends on the parking lot outside Foo Fighters shows with their hate-filled signs. As fans began congregating in the parking lot outside Bonner Springs’ Azura Amphitheater, …
Read More »Live Music Learns to Live Again at Foo Fighters Club Gig
“It’s times like these you learn to live again,” Dave Grohl sang Tuesday night, with clenched emotion, at the beginning of Foo Fighters’ first concert since a global pandemic snuffed out live music last March. He was backed, at first, only by church-like organ chords from keyboardist Rami Jaffee. As …
Read More »Foo Fighters Call Upon the Youth in 'Waiting on a War' Video
Foo Fighters have released an emotional music video for “Waiting on a War,” the newest single from the band’s upcoming album, Medicine at Midnight. Dave Grohl has stated that “Waiting on a War” was inspired by a conversation with his 11-year-old daughter: “Last fall, as I was driving my daughter …
Read More »Foo Fighters Unveil Archival Live EP, Tease Vault Releases
Twenty-four years and a day after releasing their self-titled debut album on July 4th, 1995, Foo Fighters have dropped a surprise live EP. “A good day to look in the Foo Files,” the band announced on Twitter. “How about a few elusive live tracks?” Mysteriously titled 00950025 — possibly alluding …
Read More »Book Review: Danny Goldberg's 'Serving the Servant' is a Fascinating Account of His Years Inside Nirvana's Drama
On March 25, 1994 — just 11 days before Kurt Cobain died by suicide — Danny Goldberg flew to Seattle in a desperate attempt to save his life. “I felt impotent,” he recalled of the intervention. “Just a few months earlier, he had told a journalist I was like a …
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