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by Luke Slater
Former Nirvana bassist and general Washingtonian luminary Krist Novoselic has dubbed former bandmate and rock superstar Dave Grohl 'the greatest rock musician in the world today', in his column for Seattle Weekly.»
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by Dean Samways
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl today sugggested that that the band may not be returning to UK shores for ten years.
His dramatic statement comes after the band played two stonking summer shows at Wembley Stadium.
Unfortunately, this means Grohl an»
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by Mike Diver
Dave Grohl has penned a letter to Metallica instructing the metal legends to produce a "kick ass" album next time around. The James Hetfield-fronted four-piece's new LP is due in the autumn»
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by Kev Kharas
Oasis have confirmed their first show of 2008»
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by Samuel Strang
Whilst the DiS brethren were mincing round a dank Dalston for Cadence Weapon, pop’s elite gathered like hens round a cornfeed, pecking viciously for seed at last nights BRIT AWARDS 2008. Who went home with a contented belly»
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by Kev Kharas
Thought you were lucky to get tickets for Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium? Well you’re not. Not really. Grohl’s lot have announced another show at ‘the new home of football’.»
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by Kev Kharas
HOLDDave Grohl’s Foo Fighters will play Wembley Stadium in the new year.»
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by Kev Kharas
The world's longest running conflict plumbed new depths today, as Courtney Love took a damaging potshot at nemesis Dave Grohl.»
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by Kev Kharas
Two rock bands have added dates to their forthcoming UK tours.»
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by Kev Kharas
"She's more offensive to me than anything. She's a total, raging, disgusting, rich, lazy party slut. I pray that my daughter will not turn out like her."»
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by Mike Diver
The Foo Fighters are to tour the UK in November...»
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by Kev Kharas
Echoes Silence Patience And Grace is the suitably virtuous title of the new Foo Fighters record, which will be out here in the autumn.»
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by Mike Diver
Dave Grohl-fronted pop-rockers Foo Fighters are to release a special 10th Anniversary Edition of their second album, 1997's The Colour And The Shape...»
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by Mike Diver
Foo Fighters fans with a penchant for the rock had best look away now: the band have confirmed that their next album, Skin And Bones will be a live and acoustic affair...»
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by Mike Diver
Word on the world-wide web is that Foo Fighters are to release a new album on November 6, titled Skin And Bones... »
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by Mike Diver
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is to fulfil a promise made back in May to a pair of Australian miners...»
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by Mike Diver
rockfeedback TV begins on MTV2 tomorrow night (August 17), and to celebrate this transferring of rock-born opinions from the web to your telly, DiS has a few money-can't-easily-buy records to give away...»
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by Mike Diver
Tickets went on sale yesterday, though, so if you ain't got, you ain't gettin'. Unless, of course, you're utterly minted and can part with a LARGE sum of money, directing it the way of a scummy tout...»
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by Mike Diver
Oh, how I chuckled at the telly last night when it reported that rumours were circulating that Dave Grohl of popular rockers Foo Fighters was DEAD. I chuckled, of course, 'cause it's quite obviously not true...»
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by Mike Diver
Dave Grohl-fronted US rockers Foo Fighters have announced a one-off acoustic show...»
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by Mike Diver
Axe-manglers and fret-fondlers rejoice! It seems that rock is, once again, the supreme force in contemporary music...»
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by Gen Williams
While tickets for 2006's festivals sell out one after another in the absence of Glasto this summer, Mean Fiddler Managing Director Melvin Benn has announced that a large new festival is to emerge...»
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by Mike Diver
Increasingly less-rocking four-piece the Foo Fighters are to play a mammoth Kerrang-sponsored show this summer in the grassy heart of the nation's capital.»
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by Mike Diver
Rye Coalition are to release a new EP, Chariots On Fire, through Gern Blandsten next month. The four-tracker was produced by none other than Foo Fighters head honcho Dave Grohl...»
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by Mike Diver
LOL at Dave Grohl, 'cause the Foo Fighters fella is set to become a daddy for the first time...»
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by Colin Roberts
Hailing from Dublin, anthemic four-piece Humanzi play some dates from tonight and wind up supporting the Foo Fighters at the end.»
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by Mike Diver
Folks attending the upcoming Foo Fighters gigs can bag themselves a nice rare slab o' wax: support act Eagles Of Death Metal, featuring the pictured Josh Homme on drums and Jesse Hughes on guitar, are selling a limited-edition 7" from their merch stall...»
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by DiS News
American MONSTER RAWKERS Foo Fighters announce UK tour of those really big venues with crap sound for this December.»
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by DiS News
Courtney Love has shot her mouth off in the latest issue of US magazine Spin, aiming her anger at former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighter Dave Grohl...»
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by DiS News
It's that time of year again...»
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by Gareth Dobson
Getting a little confused with all this festival to-ing and fro-ing? Not sure who's actually playing the festivals you want to go to? Are they confirmed or not? Are the Killers playing everywhere? let DiS offer you some firm hard facts...»
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by Laurel Dreher
Get ready to break out the Kleenex....This year's T in the Park event has officially sold out.»
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by DiS News
Details of headline acts set to play this year's T in the
Park festival at Balado, near Kinross, have been
announced.
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by Laurel Dreher
Alt-rock group The Killers, popular for their quite catchy yet lyrically-lacking single "Somebody Told Me," have been confirmed for this year's Oxegen Festival happening 9-10 July at the Punchestown Racecourse in Ireland.»
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by Laurel Dreher
The word is out that The Foo Fighters are one of the three bands set to headline this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals.»
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by Sean Adams
Grohl's still slagging himself around and Trent Reznor is bound to be still dressed in black, whilst making another opus...»
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by Martin Rivers
Foo Fighters members Dave Grohl & Chris Shiflett keep themselves busy with side project type diversions...
In keeping with a well-established fondness for expanding his bands-I’ve-worked-with CV – Dave Grohl has been collaborating with former sludge doomsters turned dance punks Killing Joke o»
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by Sean Adams
The British institution wakes up and releases a DVD...
The 21st Series of BBC's music show 'Later... with Jools Holland' is due to start up again in May. To coincide with the new series they're releasing a noisy DVD. Following on the DVD series from»
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by Ollie Appleby
Singer, actress and publicity whore Courtney Love has been arrested at Heathrow for alleged abusive behaviour on board a plane.
The widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was flying in from the US before she was arrested. Courtney Love had been travelling on Virgin Atlantic flight VS8 from Los Ange»
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by Sean Adams
Gee, this is exciting news... another load of safe bands get another load of awards based on what, we're not quite sure...
The annual multinational back-pat fest, otherwise known as the somecompanyorothersponsored Brit Awards, have just announced their nominees for the event on Februar»
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by Ben Chandler
UK Charts rocked by people in leather..
Electric 6's stomping anthem 'Danger! High Voltage' became the Highest New Entry in the UK's Official Top 40 singles chart yesterday...
Electric 6 with their re-re»
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by Sean Adams
It almost doesn't seem right but Cat Power's next album has a couple of rock godz on it...
'You are Free' is the title of the second album Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) out on February 18th, but the website of Matador Records (a»
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by Sean Adams
While the Grohl is away, the Chris Shiflett will form a side project with his brothers...
Rolling Stone is reporting that Foo Fighters and former No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett went into the studio while Dave Grohl was messing around with the Queens and recorded 20 songs with his »
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by Gen Williams
Two months before the Carling Weekend is even due to take place, it appears that weekend tickets for Reading are close to selling out.
Less than a month after the festival organisers began to announce this year's lineup, which has been hailed as a particularly strong one, featuring Foo F»
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by Ollie Appleby
The official announcement of the line-up for this year’s Carling Weekend Festival for August 23-26 has came, well, at least for the main bands...
The Strokes, last festival's most hyped band who ended up being elevated to the Main Stage, this year are set to co-headline the Main Stage in both»
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by Colin Weston
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl is to take time out from working on the Foo's new album to temporarily return to Queens Of The Stone Age as a drummer.
Grohl did most of the drumming on 'Songs For The Deaf', the forthcoming album from QOTSA, and has decided to go on the road for the»
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by Ollie Appleby
"On the 13th and 14th of July over 50,000 people will see over 100 bands on 7 stages at Balado near Kinross, which can only mean one thing - T in the Park 2002."
Over the next few weeks, the full line up to T in the Park will be announced, via the T in the Park w»
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by Mat Hocking
You may be still too busy nursing post-festive / new year hangovers and looking at ways of shedding those extra pounds to be thinking about the summer festivals but Drowned In Sound can exclusively reveal that the headliners for this year's Reading & Leeds festivals will be the Foo Fighters.
Speaking to DiS»
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by Ollie Appleby
Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl take the battle to Courtney over the release of an anniversary Nirvana boxed set, and the whole future of the band's back catalogue
Over the last few days, Legal papers filed at Seattle's Superior Court Of Washington have launched an action seeking to overturn an earlier court »
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by Ollie Appleby
The Foo Fighters release new track 'The One' via their official website while recording their next album.
Still hard at work in the studio, The Foo Fighters are recording their follow-up to 'There is Nothing Left to Lose' and a few other projects, including new tune 'The One'»
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by Ollie Appleby
Taylor Hawkins has confirmed his return both to health, and recording duties in a statement posted on the Foo Fighters' official website.
"I hope everyone is doing OK in these turbulent times, as for me, I am alive and well. I was a bit ill, as I'm sure a lot of you know, but as of now I'm feeling b»
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by Tim Whitehouse
It was just announced on Radio 1 that Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins is in hospital having suffered a suspected accidental overdose. The forthcoming European dates have been cancelled.
Update The band have released an official statement about the incident. It reads as follows:
"The Foo Fighter»
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by Raziq Rauf
US rock act Foo Fighters are to play a one-off live show at London's Kentish Town Forum on Monday, August 27th. This follows their 2 performances at this year's V2001 festivals alongside Muse, Atomic Kitten and Idlewild among others, last weekend. Tickets cost £15 + booking fee. To bu»
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by Ollie Appleby
The Foo Fighters have announced that they are to appear at this year's T On The Fringe Festival.
The group will play at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on August 30.
Other bands who are taking part in the event include Supergrass on August 23 and Starsailor on August 14.
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by Colin Weston
SECONDS OUT... ROUND ONE
Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett and Steve Martin, the head of the publicity firm Nasty Little Man, which represents the band, are to have a boxing match at a gym in lower Manhattan.
The fight, set for 7:30 p.m. ET on the 20th of April is open to the public at the Churc»
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by Matthew Pimm
Foo Fighters and Feeder to play the V festivals
It's that time of year when festival line-ups are revealed and here is some advance information on who will be playing at V2001 this year.
Faithless and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have already revealed on their web sites that the»