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"I miss playing those songs, I miss being that drummer": Dave Grohl on the time Nirvana reunited at Cal Jam 2018

Grohl was joined by Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear and two guest vocalists to run through six Nirvana classics at his own festival

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“I could have headed towards blues or shred. I chose blues… Fast-forward to 2020, I decided to become a 12 year-old learning guitar again – I went the other way and got an Ibanez with a Floyd Rose!” Gary Clark Jr. is finally unleashing his inner shredder

On his powerful and experimental new album, Gary Clark Jr. is channeling the pioneering spirit of the greats and finding new shades of blue

Guitar World

"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

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The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk

A growing movement of artists are embracing the music genre’s Black cultural roots

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"I love you Foos": Watch Scott Ian's 12-year-old son Revel play Everlong with Foo Fighters at Dave Grohl's studio

"Rev gave Pat the day off" jokes Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, as his 12-year-old son Revel subs in for Pat Smear at a Foo Fighters rehearsal

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Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

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"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever

Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed

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Foo Fighters create a nostalgic atmosphere at Riot Fest 2023

“Whenever we play this city I always gives props, not only to Cubby Bear, not only to Naked Raygun, not only to my cousin Tracy who took me, but to the city of Chicago. Without you I don’t think I’d be doing this thing,” David Grohl told fans on Friday…

Chicago Sun-Times

Watch Weezer drummer Pat Wilson play guitar with Foo Fighters at Japan's Fuji Rock festival

The band were earlier joined by Alanis Morissette for a cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s Mandinka

MusicRadar

“I don’t know if Prince was really odd or playing at being odd”: how a future Foo Fighters member accidentally ended up in a Prince video in 1985

The Purple One was looking for punk rock “weirdos” to appear in the Raspberry Beret video and he found one in a future member of the Foo Fighters

Louder

‘Kismet’ brings Belinda Carlisle back to the studio and the road

New five-song EP reteams the former Go-Go’s vocalist with ‘I Get Weak’ songwriter Diane Warren in a twist of fate.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light

"The three of us together sitting in front of speakers and a mixing desk, that hasn’t happened in 20 years": How Dave Grohl got Butch Vig and Krist Novoselic involved in Foo Fighter’s seventh record

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Foo Fighters announce new drummer following death of late Taylor Hawkins

Foo Fighters have confirmed the identity of their latest drummer, who's following in the footstep of the late Taylor Hawkins, who was a member of the band from 1997 until his death last year

Daily Mirror

Paul McCartney: “Somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it”

Bassist Krist Novoselic revisits the time the ex-Beatle fronted a Nirvana reunion gig

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The Independent UK

Foo Fighters guitar could fetch £30,000 at auction

The Gretsch White Falcon guitar, played by Grohl in the 1997 video for Money Wrench, was originally owned by Foo Fighters’ rhythm guitarist Pat Smear.

Evening Standard

Foo Fighters to pay special tribute to Taylor Hawkins with London gig

The glittering event celebrating the drummer’s life will take place on September 3 this year

Wales Online

Foo Fighters announce Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in London

The drummer died in March

The Independent UK

Machine Gun Kelly: I want to tell Hawkins’ children their father was a great man

The US rapper, who met Hawkins two days before his death, said the drummer was ‘such a beautiful soul’ and that he was ‘lucky to know him.’

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The Independent UK

Paul McCartney: Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was a rock and roll hero

The former Beatle paid tribute to the musician as he recalled the time he had played drums for the Foo Fighters in a recording session.

The Independent UK

‘Huge loss for music’ as Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins dies at 50

The drummer played in the band for more than two decades.

Manchester Evening News

Taylor Hawkins: Tributes pour in for Foo Fighters drummer following death aged 50

The band announced the heartbreaking news of Hawkins' death in a statement as the rock world mourns

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