Foo Fighters
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Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages audio, 5 April 2010
The Foo Fighters drummer talks about his solo project, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders, and their new album Red Light Fever: working with guitarist Gannin Arnold; having members of Queen contribute; the album song-by-song; working with guitarists; his favourite British producers; singing on Slash's album; Chris Chaney's bass playing; using Gretsch drums; the family that is the Foo Fighters, and having his own band.
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King Foo: Foo Fighters: King's College, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 10 June 1995
TRUE, THE FACT THAT the hall is christened "Tutu's" is something of a giveaway, as indeed are the alarmingly generous bar tariffs. But if this ...
Foo Do You Love: Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters (Roswell/Capitol)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 24 June 1995
Nirvana may have been heroes to many but they never meant shit to some. And, overburdened though it is by the weight of recent history, ...
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 1 September 1995
Britpop may be bland, but the Reading Festival shows we are over the dark days of last year ...
Foo Fighters: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 7 September 1995
Spooky survivor ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1995
THE FOO FIGHTERS Melody Maker interview takes place in the lobby of some swank hotel in Madrid, Spain. Outside, gun-toting cops keep the hookers at ...
Foo Fighters: The Foo Epidemic
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, December 1995
IT'S BEEN QUITE A YEAR for Foo Fighters, shaking off the ghosts of the past and confounding the expectations of those who consider Dave Grohl ...
Foo Fighters: Have We Got Foos For You
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 6 April 1996
Foo Fighters are back with a new single, 'Big Me', and a fresh determination to not let adulation force them into a Nirvana–type corner. Melody ...
Foo Fighters — Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Profile and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 1996
HOLD TIGHT! Hang on to your 'cookies'! Belt up! For the Foo Fighters are taking off, turning their backs on the mucky, resonant demise of ...
Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana
Special Feature by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, 14 February 1997
NEARLY THREE years after Kurt Cobain's death in April 1994, interest in his group, Nirvana, remains strong. ...
Placebo & Foo Fighters: Hallo Spaceboys
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 February 1997
THE SETTING: Placebo's dressing room, backstage at Madison Square Garden. David Bowie is halfway through his 50th Birthday Concert. Two of his special guests are ...
Foo Fighters: Happy Dave Is Here Again
Interview by Stuart Bailie, Vox, June 1997
Dodgy facial furniture aside, Dave Grohl is, without doubt, the most well-adjusted man in rock as he prepares to lead Foo Fighters onto further glory ...
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 20 November 1997
In our occasional Tour Diary series, we find out why Dave Grohl of FOO FIGHTERS always chews gum onstage, loves punk rock and why he ...
Access all areas: The Rock Muse
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998
Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...
Foo Fighters: I'm Still Standing
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, September 1999
This year Dave Grohl has split from his record company, seen long-time friend Franz Stahl walk out on his band and endured far too much ...
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 23 October 1999
IT'S A SPARKLY autumnal London morning. In a back road off Oxford Street, a band are huddled in a radio production company recording an interview ...
Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left To Lose (Roswell/RCA)
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 30 October 1999
NOTHING left to lose? Oh, I wouldn't say that. This reviewer for one wouldn't mind mislaying the notion that the artist formerly known as Grunge ...
Foo Fighters: Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 November 1999
A THREADBARE Celtic cliché claims audiences at this decrepit old ballroom are better than anywhere else in the country, perhaps even the world. But as ...
Foo Fighters: At the Brixton Academy
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 27 November 1999
The number of rock drummers who've realised they were destined for headier things at the front of the stage can be counted on two fingers: ...
Foo Fighters: the Scala, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 15 March 2000
Smells like screen spirit ...
Foo Fighters: Overdoses. Courtney Love. The Pressure of recording a new album.
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 30 March 2002
The last 12 months haven't been easy. But Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl says that he's happier than ever… ...
Foo Fighters: One by One (Roswell/RCA)
Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 October 2002
THE RADAR seems to have gone awry in the track sequencing: after sitting through the opening tracks — the blunt metal grunt of 'All My ...
Foo Fighters: "Us or Nirvana? I'm prouder of us!"
Interview by Ian Winwood, New Musical Express, May 2005
DAVE GROHL IS SITTING in a spacious room with his band the Foo Fighters. They're seated in a ragged semi-circle, and at the moment the ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, July 2005
Grooving on Led Zep, dossing with mud-wrestlers, he joined the "fucking dark" world of Nirvana a goofy naif and left it a rock star. "I ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, July 2005
Schizoid double album includes an elegy for Grohl's old flatmate Kurt Cobain. ...
Foo Fighters: "Touring the UK? It Feels Great Every Time!"
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, December 2005
2005 HAS BEEN, in the words of guitarist Nate Mendel, 'really fucking chaotic' for the Foo Fighters. First, there was In Your Honour, recorded in ...
Scream And Scream Again: Dave Grohl
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'The Dave Grohl Story' (Omnibus Press) , 2006
In 1987, DC hopeful Dave Grohl finally scored what he thought was the best gig in the world: drumming for hardcore legends Scream. But what ...
Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2007
EVERYONE LOVES the Foo Fighters, and with good reason. ...
Foo Fighters: "I've never gotten off on chaos"
Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 14 September 2007
FOO FIGHTER Dave Grohl talks to Keith Cameron about what kept him alive and kicking after the death of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 16 September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he ...
Dave Grohl: Captain Good Vibes
Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, Brisbane Times, 6 October 2007
THE DALMACIA HOTEL in Hammersmith, west London, is clean but frills-free. That it can offer competitively priced triple rooms means its clientele sometimes includes rock ...
Foo Fighters: Manchester City Stadium
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2008
FOURTEEN YEARS and six albums since the demise of Nirvana, Dave Grohl continues to smooth down the spiky edges of his former band's indie-metal sound. ...
Foo Fighters/Cee Lo Green: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 27 February 2011
ONE-OFF shows throw up some bizarre juxtapositions, and at this NME-sponsored Big Gig, CeeLo Green was painfully aware he was not the support act that ...
Interview by Ian Gittins, Man About Town, April 2011
IT'S NIGH ON IMPOSSIBLE to imagine being a member of the biggest, most iconic rock band of your generation then having it snatched away from ...
Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 11 April 2011
WITH THE release of this seventh studio album from the Nicest Man In Rock and his sweat-flecked colleagues, there can be no doubt that Foo ...
Lightning In A Bottle: Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (RCA)
Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, May 2011
Supercharged spontaneity captured straight to tape — yet Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters remain emotionally elusive ...
View From The Top: Foo Fighters: Back And Forth/Lil Wayne: The Carter
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, August 2011
The rock soap opera of Foo Fighters' journey to a happy place versus the soul-sapping, airlocked celebrity world of Lil Wayne ...
Record reviews: Who needs them?
Comment by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 1 January 2013
Music criticism is in a horrible state. It wouldn't have to be if we talked about albums like they really mattered. ...
The Sound City Players: Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, February 2014
"THAT ROCK fantasy camp shit?," screamed a shirtless Taylor Hawkins. "This is it right here!" The Foo Fighters drummer – taking a rare turn standing ...
see also Nirvana
see also Them Crooked Vultures
see also Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders
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