Dave Grohl

Fleetwood Mac - Hollywood Bowl - 5/25/13

Fleetwood Mac Hollywood Bowl 5/25/13 Fleetwood Mac does their best work in dramatic circumstances. They put out their finest album in the midst of personal turmoil and needed Bill Clinton to broker a reunion in 1993. As recently as last year, Mick Fleetwood proclaimed that the band wouldn't tour ag ... More >>

The Best of SXSW

This year, our sister papers the Dallas Observer and Houston Press teamed up to document the SXSW madness for you amusement and/or edification. Here are the 12 best shows and moments they saw.

Five More Iconic Key Club Shows

The Key Club's last day is today! Ever since West Coast Sound broke the story of its impending closure, local music fans have been mourning the place. Personally, we've been to the venue hundreds of times, and worked there as a DJ during Metal Skool's heyday for about two years. We believe the venue ... More >>

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

Dave Grohl - Hollywood Palladium - 1/31/13

Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, and others Hollywood Palladium 1/31/13 When Dave Grohl announced late last year that the Foo Fighters were going on an indefinite hiatus, folks weren't quite sure how to interpret the news. The band had just ... More >>

Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind

By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>

Bad Brains: Band in D.C.

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

It's a Black, Gass Gas

Creed - The Wiltern - 5/15/12

Creed The Wiltern 5/15/12 It's hard to believe that in 2012 Creed can still draw a big audience. Nearly a decade after the band's apex, they're still playing mid-sized theatres, bewildering critics who continuously underestimate the public's need for butt rock. As one of the most famous bands tha ... More >>

DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep

See also: *Our Beyond Wonderland slideshow *Beyond Wonderland Rave Could Get Snow This Weekend. No, Really. *Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit This weekend, L.A.-based DJ Fei-Fei Wang performed at Armin Van Buuren's trance party at the Beyond Wonderland rave. With ... More >>

Dana Gould Tells Us the Secrets to Creating a New Podcast (and Dishes on His Dave Grohl FX Comedy)

Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>

Pot Wars

Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

Why the Grammys Stink

See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>

Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit

See also: Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town. But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying ... More >>

Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams, Britt Daniel - Bob Mould Tribute at Disney Hall - 11/21/11

Britt Daniel, Craig Finn, No Age, Ryan Adams, Dave Grohl, and others Bob Mould Tribute Disney Hall November 21, 2011 See also: *Our slideshow of the concert *Bob Mould -- Largo at the Coronet -- July 27, 2011 You know how these lovefest all-star tributes to our legend-looming creative artists ca ... More >>

Music Picks: Overdoz, The Cure, Lucinda Williams

Also, K. Flay, The Civil Wars, Bob Mould tribute

Foo Fighters - The Forum - 10/13/11

Timothy Norris​See also: *Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York *1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke *Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's ... More >>

Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York

Jena Ardell​Who: Nirvana Where: SiriusXM's studios in New York City When: September 24, 2011 Better than... bands inspired by Nirvana. Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, an album most people feel changed the landscape of music. To celebrate, SiriusXM satellite radio ... More >>

Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation

Pooneh GhanaNathan Williams​See also: Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty The decor of the Eagle Rock home Nathan Williams shares with his girlfriend, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, looks kind of like how his music sounds: fun, a little gr ... More >>

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Dave Grohl Rant in London: "You Come to My Show and Fucking Dance, You Asshole!"

Dave Grohl in Tenacious D's The Pick of Destiny.​If you were planning on getting rowdy in the pit when the Foo Fighters roll into the Forum this fall for two nights of back-to-back rock-your-face-off n' roll, you better think twice. Dave Grohl might become enraged, publicly humiliate you while ... More >>

Dave Grohl Has Very Bad L.A. Day, Gets Tasered in Foo Fighters' "Walk" Video

We know the feeling​Dave Grohl is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad L.A. day. Starting the Foo Fighters' latest video for "Walk" stuck in standstill traffic while a report happily announces the 110, the 101, and the 405 are "wide open," Grohl spies too many stupid bumper stickers ... More >>

Foo Fighters: Live Review PLUS Where to Find the 'World Exclusive' CD Edition of Record Store Day's 'Medium Rare' Covers Album!

Jena ArdellHey Dave Grohl, cut your hair so we can get a better look at you!​ Two hundred fans who pre-ordered the Foo Fighters' new album, then raced to Fingerprints record store in Long Beach on April 4th, were given wristbands to attend an intimate show inside the store last Saturday, where ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Dave Grohl on Cutting the New Foo Fighters Album's Master Tape to Pieces--and Giving Them Away to the Fans

add caption​Imagine our surprise when we received the advance CD of the Foo Fighters' new album, Wasting Light, and we noticed the following sticker copy: Recorded Entirely On Analog Tape in Dave's Garage. A piece of the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPE included in this package. Upon opening the cardboa ... More >>

Foo Fighters To Glee Creator: "F**k That Guy!"

GQ MagazineDave Grohl doesn't want this twentysomething lady who plays a teenager on TV to belt out "Everlong" (twentysomething lady who plays a teenager on TV pictured here being secsy for GQ Magazine)​ According to a Hollywood Reporter interview at SXSW, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and dru ... More >>

Foo Fighters' Secret Shows: NEWER UPDATE Next Show Was Going to Be at the Echo/Echoplex, Keith Morris' OFF! Was to Be Opening Act But Apparently It's Been Cancelled: Original Guess The Troubadour Also Being Mentioned

​ [UPDATE 2/11/2011: It goes like this: Tomorrow (Saturday)'s night Secret Foo Fighters show was going to be at the Echo (or the Echoplex) and the opening act was going to be the Keith Morris/Raymond Pettibon LA punk supergroup OFF!, but it apparently has been cancelled due to the fact that, ... More >>

Foo Fighters Announce Yet Another Secret Show in LA, featuring Husker Du's Bob Mould and Hardcore Legends Scream!

Lina LecaroA saucer-haircut-ful of secrets: Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (and some other obscure band of the '90s)​ LA music blog Grimy Goods (which you should have bookmarked anyhow because it's very good) reports that the Foo Fighters have announced another secret show in LA for tomorrow, ... More >>

Catching Up With Pat and Don

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Fresh Pots!: Dave Grohl Is a Violent Coffee Addict, Says Na'avi Bandmate Josh Homme

MTV reports on a new video posted by Them Crooked Vultures to their YouTube account where we discover two really interesting facts: 1. Dave Grohl is (or was, during the making of their album) addicted to coffee. He keeps asking for "FRESH POTS!" like a crazy person, fueling himself for his customar ... More >>

Video Interview: Slash Talks Solo Album Details, Guitar Center Contest, and His New Attitude Towards Frontmen

Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"​On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>

Them Crooked Vultures Rain Rockness Upon the Wiltern (11/16)

Them Crooked Vultures Rain Rockness Upon the Wiltern

Queen Foo Zep: Them Crooked Vultures Stream New Album for Free!

Those on the Them Crooked Vultures mailing list got a surprising e-mail last afternoon. "Fuck Patience, Let's Dance," was the succinct message announcing that the Josh Homme-Dave Grohl-John Paul Jones supergroup had decided to stream their new album through Youtube a week before the official release ... More >>

Grohlapalooza!: New Vultures Single, Foo Comp, Nirvana Live

"New Fang," the advance single from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures drops today, whetting the appetite of millions of old-school rawwwwk fans who are still recovering from the shock of learning that their fantasy-baseball team-up of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppeli ... More >>

Kanye Who? VMA Moments That Didn't Suck

Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.

Best LA Music of 2009 So Far Part IV: Nite Jewel and Tom Brosseau

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

GRAFFITI CAN BE A REWARDING CAREER!

Greg Proops: Where It's Chat

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

Foo Fighters, Secret Show, 9/18

Foo Fighters Secret Location, Los Angeles By Ryan Colditz The Foo Fighters were filming live material on Tuesday night for an upcoming appearance on Nissan Live Sets, presented by Yahoo Music. Unlike a normal concert, between songs there was an ongoing Q&A between fans and the band. Only several hu ... More >>

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Live in LA

Waves of Sympathy

Sweat, Semen and a Scream

With the Lights Out takes us through the past, starkly

The Dangerous Lives of Desert Boys

Forty days and forty nights with Queens of the Stone Age

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler