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corporate rock still sells

The Half-Year In Review: Dave Grohl Owns Alt-Rock Airwaves (What Else Is New?)

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives the year's rock charts a midway-mark overview. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Al Shipley
855 views, 18 comments

Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes pinch-hit for Dave Grohl at the taping of VH1's Rock Honors tribute to the Who on Saturday night, thanks to Grohl's voice being too tired to make its way through two songs. Coombes sang "Bargain" while backed by the Foo Fighters for the show, which will be broadcast Thursday night. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam covered "The Real Me," a song choice that makes me wonder if they're trying to dethrone Blackie Lawless as the heir to that particular track. Fight! Fiiiiight! [Hollywood Insider / Photo: AP]

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reunions?

Are You At A Led Zeppelin Reunion Show? A Handy Guide


Hey, did you hear that Led Zeppelin reunited this weekend? Well, it was just John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, who took the stage with the Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium for "Rock and Roll" and (as seen above) "Ramble On," but that's not stopping the NME from running with the headline "Led Zeppelin reunite at Foo Fighters show." To celebrate this momentous occasion, let's play a game of "Are You Really At A Led Zeppelin Reunion Show"! More »

12:30 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
916 views, 4 comments

Latest by valido: Maura, you're just jealous 'cause you weren't there. I was. And having seen Robert Plant solo some 5/6 years ago, I now have a perfect Led Zeppelin reunion in my mind ;) (last winter I preferred the Sunn o))) + Boris more »

retractions

Dave Grohl On That Letter To Metallica: "I Didn't Write It, I Dictated It"

Dave Grohl has posted a sorta-denial of the open letter to Metallica that made the rounds last week, which inquired after the progress of their current album (particularly the drum parts). While not denying that he said the words that were picked up "by everyone from Blabbermouth to Rolling Stone," he claims that he never put pen to paper for the purposes of getting in touch with James et al. Instead, that "letter" was just part of an interview that was taken out of context and whipped up into a nice, frothy, Internet meringue: More »

10:30 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
891 views, 4 comments

Latest by Vermafia: I'd be willing to bet his posted note was "dictated" too. I exchanged e-mail with DG twice for an article and he WROTE IN ALL CAPS WITH EXCESSIVE UNNECESSARY PUNCTUATION!!! more »

Foo Fighters' Bid To Get Noticed By Smoking Gun Finally Succeeds Congratulations, guys! You've really hit the big time now! [TSG]

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they get letters

Dave Grohl To Metallica: "Please Don't Make Another Shitty Record. Also, I'm Available!"

Self-proclaimed "guy that's been listening to your band faithfully since 1983" Dave Grohl has apparently sent an open letter to Metallica pleading with them to not release their new album until they're sure it's good, a rule that they haven't really been following for the past 10 years or so. More »

4:45 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,735 views, 27 comments

The Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots will headline 1999's this year's Virgin Mobile Festival, which takes place at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Aug. 9-10. [Baltimore Sun]

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absolute carnage

Kiwi DJs To Pay For Fake Foo Fighter Concert Prank

April Fool's Day is over in New Zealand, and it may have cost some radio DJs their jobs. Seems the good people on Auckland's "Rock FM" thought they could promote an acoustic Foo Fighters gig at a local venue, where the expecting masses would then by raspberried by DJs as the band's music played on a boombox. Tee hee! Only it turns out there were a lot more excited Foo fans in the area than the "about fifty" they expected to dupe. More »

2:20 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
746 views, 5 comments

Latest by BakerStreetSaxSolo: A Foo Fighters gig at 8:15am on April Fools Day? If anyone booked flights to see that, they deserve to lose their money for being so fucking stupid. more »

lady, we've put up with a lot from you, but this needless beer bashing is the final straw

Courtney Love: "ive done LOADS of things with LOADS OF STADIUM ROCKERS"

Like many of us, Courtney Love wonders about certain choices Village Voice Media has made over the last few years. Twelve hours ago she was specifically irate over Voice music editor's Rob Harvilla's recent piece on the Foo Fighters, where Harvilla praised frontman Dave Grohl for his likeability by claiming that "in arena rock, as in politics, we vote for the candidate we'd most enjoy having a beer with" and that Grohl was the arena-rocker in whose company he'd most enjoy popping the top on a tall cold one. Courtney then attacked Harvilla's offhand dismissal of informed voting until her caps lock squealed like someone in Boy George's basement, comparing Harvilla's lede to a "Fox [News, presumably] talking point" and referring to the Foo Fighters as a "mediocre" band. Incensed that the general public perceives arena rockers as beer fans—"Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY."—Courtney went on to list all the things she's done with arena rockers instead of drinking beer, maddeningly teasing us by not including the names of the arena rockers in question. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,891 views, 27 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: You guys realize that probably 90 percent of those things she mentioned she did with Michael Stipe, who's been her BFF for about 12 years or so. In fact, I would guess it was everything except "having sex" and "doing more »

gas, grass, or ass

Long Island Ass Monkeys Just Wanna Make Love For Foo

Alt-rock institution Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters are set to play a sold-out Madison Square Garden in just a few hours, sending desperate New Yorkers scrambling to the always dicey secondary market in hopes they might still be able to score a 300-level seat behind the stage. These three Nassau County Foo fans are unfortunately too strapped at the moment to pay scalper prices, but while they're desperate enough to take to Craigslist in search of last-minute remedies, they're not going to beg for your charity. In fact, perhaps they can help you. More »

3:15 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Jess Harvell
692 views, 8 comments

Latest by Jon Can Dance: Dammit, I've only got two... more »

everybody's a winner (except kanye west and amy winehouse and the foo fighters and vince gill)

The Grammys' Album Of The Year Upset: Who Should Have Won?

Judging by the reactions from my living room, my instant-messenger conversations, and the comments section on our Grammy liveblog, people were more than a little surprised when the Album Of The Year winner was announced... and said winner wasn't Kanye West or Amy Winehouse, but Herbie Hancock, whose Joni Mitchell homage River: The Joni Letters took home the night's final prize. I actually wasn't too surprised by Hancock's victory—to quote myself, "if you didn't at least think that Herbie Hancock paying tribute to Joni Mitchell would sway at least half the people who voted for Steely Dan over Eminem a few years back you haven't been paying attention"—but apparently a lot of people were! (Perhaps they forgot that Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae and Tina Turner and Leonard Cohen were also on the album.) So let's put it to all of you: If you had a vote in the Grammy balloting, what would you have chosen as this Grammy year's Album Of The Year? Poll after the jump. More »

12:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
4,289 views, 55 comments

Latest by blobby: I believe it was the Guardian who already pointed out, musicians stop making good music as soon as they hit 30. Herbie Hancock is waaaaaay past 30. Therefore, his album sucked. Q.E.D. In all seriousness, why the fuck didn't more »

labor day

Will The Writer's Strike Drain The Grammys' Talent Pool?

The People's Choice Awards were reduced to a clip show. The Golden Globes are going to be held in press conference form. Will the writer's strike have a detrimental effect on the Grammys, which are scheduled to take place on Feb. 10? According to Phil Gallo at Variety, it might, because the producers "would have to do a show with no WGA writing, no actors as presenters and none of musicians with union or Hollywood connections." While the Grammys have only officially announced one performer at the show—the Foo Fighters, who are doing that YouTube talent show thing—Gallo has helpfully compiled a list of people who you likely wouldn't see on the telecast, given their assorted union connections. And guess whose name is right up top? More »

6:15 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By mjohnston
972 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: Man... i hate that everything had to turn out this way because the industrry wans't paying the writers enough or however the story goes. Oh well i guess... good luck to the nominees anyway. more »

corporate rock still sells

Do The Grammys Love The Foo Fighters, Or Just Really Hate Foo?

Since many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock, welcome to "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley (a.k.a. Idolator commenter GovernmentNames) examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of Billboard's rock charts. This time around he takes a look at the year's most (supposedly) surprising Grammy nominees, alt-rock survivors the Foo Fighters: More »

11:00 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Al Shipley
1,486 views, 19 comments

Solidifying his "elder statesman of rock" cred, Dave Grohl leads the Foo Fighters as they turn "Band On The Run" into ... well, a Foo Fighters song, pretty much. [I Am Fuel, You Are Friends]

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Dave Grohl, Rock's Most Unlikely Elder Statesman Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the Foo Fighters' Echoes Silence Patience & Grace, which comes out today:

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nostalgia: it's contagious

The Same Colour? The Same Shape? Foo-ey!

Forgive me for having been locked in the attic these past few weeks, but seriously—a 10th anniversary edition of a friggin' Foo Fighters album? Seriously, who's going to buy this thing? The people who sold it back the first time and decided that they really, really missed it? More »

11:05 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By mmatos
1,164 views, 21 comments