Foo Fighters have booked additional headline tour dates around their growing slate of festival headline dates this spring and summer. The band is rumored to announce their new drummer soon, and possibly release new music in March. According to a previous report Radio X DJ Chris Moyles, Foo Fighters might drop a new album in March. During a February 7th show, Moyles leaked the news after playing the band’s 2011 track “Walk” from Wasting Light. “I love that song so much – Foo Fighters, and ‘Walk.’ They’ve got a new album coming out in, er, March, Foo Fighters… which I’m very much looking forward to.” Moyles did not qualify the comment any further Foo Fighters will return to touring in 2023 with Boston Calling, one year after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. Foo Fighters released their award-winning album Medicine At Midnight in 2021 and their metal album under the name Dream Widow in 2022, supporting their comedy horror film Studio 666.
With their third outing Texas-based Narrow Head have created a body of music that if you were there, will well and truly spin you back in time to the mid-nineties. And if you weren’t there but nonetheless love the alternative rock sound of the time, then you’ll also find yourself intriguingly transported back to the era when baggy clothes and dirty scuzzy guitar riffs were the sign of the times. And on top of that Moments Of Clarity (Church Road Records) may well be considered a classic today, was it released some 25-30 years ago amongst the influences that it clearly wears on its sleeve.
And the record stands out today, as it lulls you into a sense of security before changing style and introducing heavier elements where the band sounds on their peak for me, before then throwing in a highly experimental closer. So the album opens with ‘The Real’ and a fuzzy grunge riff, with the vocal of Jacob Duarte sounding somewhere between an early Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, and an early Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan. There is a lighter nineties indie alternative rock style to the sound, which continues into ‘Moments Of Clarity’ invoking memories from the likes of Weezer, Placebo, and The Lemonheads. It’s clear from the first couple of tracks that Narrow Head can write one hell of a catchy riff with highly engaging vocal hooks, and then on ‘Sunday’ they introduce a Deftones-esq riff which more than hints at what’s to come.
‘Trepnation’ kicks like a mule with dirtier down-tuned guitars and a heavy chugging bass, and my attention has well and truly been captured by the change in tone. ‘Breakup Song’ is melancholic with a lovely entwine between the main riff and a rolling bass, while ‘Fine Day’ is another sweet heavy cut with crunching guitars.
On ‘Carline’ Narrow Head reverts back to the more melodic feel of the album’s first quarter, but from here it changes tact once again with the darker muddy sounding ‘The World Sunday’ and the explosive ‘Gearhead’, which slams into a late-nineties era Deftones style, with Duarte channeling a shoe-gaze Chino Moreno vocal. And with the first screams on the album laid down before a furious outro of impressive drumming and heavy distortion … More of this, please!
And the band delivers on ‘Flesh & Solitude’ with the further subtle use of screams in amongst the heavy intoxicating music with a beautiful outro of avant-garde percussive cacophony. The aptly titled ‘The Comedown’ follows with lush strumming and kind of a Pearl Jam flavour, which gradually builds to the climax of ‘Soft To Touch’ where a mischievous guitar line perfectly plays over electronic beats. I love the way this album twists and turns from the indie rock style into a heavier alternative beast, before turning full circle and then going completely leftfield with the use of electronica. And these changes in tone create a real album experience which should definitely be absorbed as one. This is where rock music needs to be, for me, in 2023.
According to Radio X DJ Chris Moyles, Foo Fighters might drop a new album in March. During a February 7th show, Moyles leaked the news after playing the band’s 2011 track “Walk” from Wasting Light. “I love that song so much – Foo Fighters, and ‘Walk.’ They’ve got a new album coming out in, er, March, Foo Fighters… which I’m very much looking forward to.” Moyles did not qualify the comment any further Foo Fighters will return to touring in 2023 with Boston Calling, one year after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. Foo Fighters released their award-winning album Medicine At Midnight in 2021 and their metal album under the name Dream Widow in 2022, supporting their comedy horror film Studio 666. Continue reading →
Foo Fighters and Green Day will headline the Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival, set to take place July 13-16 across different venues in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Foo Fighters will perform on July 15 in Veterans Park to celebrate the Milwaukee motorcycle company’s 120th anniversary. Green Day will play in the park on July 14. Opening for Green Day on July 14 will be Social Distortion, Phantogram, and Kennyhoopla. On July 15, Cody Jinks, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and White Reaper will open the date for Foo Fighters.
Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival is returning in 2023 for the first time in several years with Foo Fighters, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Kiss, Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Queens Of The Stone Age, Falling In Reverse, Chevelle, Puscifer, Beartooth, I Prevail, Jawbreaker, Sublime With Rome, Bullet For My Valentine, The Pretty Reckless, Pennywise, Trivium, Black Veil Brides, and many more. The full lineup is listed below.
An exclusive Sonic Temple presale for festival email subscribers begins Wednesday, January 11 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Fans who sign up for the Sonic Temple e-mail list before 10:00 PM ET on Tuesday, January 10 will receive a dedicated code providing the first chance to buy festival passes. Fans can sign-up to get first access for the Early Bird presale by going to the link below: Continue reading →
Boston Calling has announced the lineup for its 2023 festival, taking place over Memorial Day weekend, from Friday, May 26, to Sunday, May 28, at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston. Headliners include Foo Fighters and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Friday), The Lumineers and Alanis Morissette (Saturday), and Paramore with Queens of the Stone Age (Sunday). Foo Fighters were one of the headliners announced for 2022, but canceled that appearance after the tragic death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. Specially priced presale 3-Day General Admission, GA+, VIP, and Platinum tickets, as well as Single Day General Admission, GA+, VIP and Platinum tickets are on sale this Thursday, January 12 at 10:00am ET. For more information and to purchase, visit the link below.
Foo Fighters shared a year-end message to fans, unpacking the year that was 2022. In addition to addressing the loss of Taylor Hawkins this year, vowed to carry on as “a different band” following Taylor’s death. Read the message from the band here. Continue reading →
After a few years of hosting their annual “Hannukah Sessions” online, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin held the first-ever live concert on December 5th, 2022 at the Largo club in Los Angeles. This year’s event, which was presented by director Judd Apatow, with profits going towards the Anti-Defamation League, featured Jewish artists. The duo plans to release the concert set as their video series this year celebrating Haunnakah, which began this week. For night eight, watch Dave and Greg cover Randy Newman’s pop hit “We Love L.A.” with Dave on lead vocals and all their friends from the show. Continue reading →
After a few years of hosting their annual “Hannukah Sessions” online, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin held the first-ever live concert on December 5th, 2022 at the Largo club in Los Angeles. This year’s event, which was presented by director Judd Apatow, with profits going towards the Anti-Defamation League, featured Jewish artists. The duo plans to release the concert set as their video series this year celebrating Haunnakah, which began this week. For night seven, Dave and Greg to cover Rush and their classic hit song “Spirit of Radio” with Jack Black of Tenacious D! Watch it now!
After a few years of hosting their annual “Hannukah Sessions” online, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin held the first-ever live concert on December 5th, 2022 at the Largo club in Los Angeles. This year’s event, which was presented by director Judd Apatow, with profits going towards the Anti-Defamation League, featured Jewish artists. The duo plans to release the concert set as their video series this year celebrating Haunnakah, which began this week. For night six, Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs joins Dave and Greg to cover her band’s classic track “Heads Will Roll!” Watch it now!
