***OFFICIAL FOO FIGHTERS THREAD***

Looks like Butch Vig is producing again. Always a good sign.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/foo-fighters-new-album-halfway-done-says-butch-vig-20140417

Foo Fighters' New Album 'Halfway Done,' Says Butch Vig
Producer teases 'different sound' and says band is experimenting with array of recording techniques

The new Foo Fighters album is "almost halfway done," producer Butch Vig said in a new interview with Kerrang (via NME). Vig said the group is experimenting with a variety of recording techniques, noting the similarities to the band's 2011 efforts, Wasting Light, which Vig also produced and was recorded in frontman Dave Grohl's garage.

"We've been recording at some different locations, but we're almost halfway done with the recording and it's going well," Vig said. "It sounds different — we've thrown a few things into the mix, in the recording process, that are going to give the record a different sound and a different feel. It's been a challenge, but it's also been exciting."

The producer's assessment is quite in line with Grohl's own description of the album, which he described to Rolling Stone last year as "badass. We’re doing something that nobody knows about, it's fucking rad. We begin recording soon, but we're doing it in a way that no one’s done before and we're writing the album in a way that I don't think has been done before."

While Grohl announced that Foo Fighters would be going on hiatus back in 2012, the band quickly returned to action at the end of last year with a handful of shows in Mexico (plus one in a Los Angeles pizza place). The band started out 2014 in style, hitting New York City for a special Super Bowl weekend show, and they're currently scheduled to play the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware on June 20th.

Amidst working on the new Foo Fighters record, Grohl and former bandmate Krist Novoselic recently corralled a bunch of friends to mark Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Along with a performance at the ceremony that found the band fronted by Lorde, Joan Jett, Kim Gordon and St. Vincent, Nirvana also hosted an afterparty at the small Brooklyn venue Saint Vitus, where they played a 19-song set with guest singers Jett, Gordon, St. Vincent, Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis and Deer Tick's John McCauley.

Like Sam's article, this talks about the new HBO show and says the album will be coming out in the fall.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-grohl-confirms-new-foo-fighters-album-details-hbo-doc-series-20140515

I think Dave is turning into Springsteen: he's already got the next album planned out even before they've finished this newest one. The man doesn't stop.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-the-foo-fighters-wildly-ambitious-new-album-and-hbo-series-20140604

kein_gerede said:

I always wondered how Dave Grohl thinks about Pearl Jam since Pearl Jam and Nirvana were like rivals.

He loves them. I wouldn't say they were rivals; just the media trying to get a story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtA7Uw57XbE

kein_gerede said:

ah really? didn't know that, because until now i haven't seen a video with them together on stage.
yeah the media....

Really? It's happened before a couple times in 1995.

Rockin' in the Free World:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8tx9ycYDcA

Sonic Reducer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0P5bO39uzw