Dave Grohl
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To coincide with the band’s thirtieth anniversary, Foo Fighters returned Wednesday with “In the present day’s Music,” their first new music in two years.
Dave Grohl revealed the tune on the band’s official web site, accompanied by a reflective 13-minute audio assertion the place he acknowledged, for the primary time, the departure of drummer Josh Freese, who joined the band following the dying of Taylor Hawkins.
“Over time, we’ve had moments of unbridled pleasure and moments of devastating heartbreak. Moments of lovely victory, and moments of painful defeat. We now have mended damaged bones and damaged hearts. However now we have adopted this highway collectively, with one another, for one another, it doesn’t matter what. As a result of in life, you simply can’t go it alone,” Grohl mentioned.
“It ought to go with out saying that with out the boundless vitality of William Goldsmith, the seasoned knowledge of Franz Stahl, and the thunderous wizardry of Josh Freese, this story can be incomplete, so we prolong our heartfelt gratitude for the time, music, and reminiscences that we shared with every of them through the years. Thanks, gents.”
Grohl’s prolonged assertion reminisces about encountering Nate Mendel for the primary time on Thanksgiving in 1994, and the way that probability assembly resulted within the start of the Foo Fighters. “A number of heaping plates of meals, just a few bottles of wine, one factor main to a different, and earlier than lengthy we had began a brand new band with different expensive buddies, Pat Smear and William Goldsmith,” Grohl mentioned. “We known as it Foo Fighters.” The band’s self-titled debut album arrived on June 26, 1995.
Later within the word, Grohl paid tribute to his late buddy and band mate Hawkins. “And… Taylor. Your title is spoken every single day, generally with tears, generally with a smile, however you’re nonetheless in every part we do, in all places we go, without end,” Grohl added. “The enormity of your lovely soul is just rivaled by the infinite longing we really feel in your absence. All of us miss you past phrases. Foo Fighters will without end embody Taylor Hawkins in each word that we play, till we do lastly attain our vacation spot.”
“In the present day’s Music” itself echoes most of the themes in Grohl’s word, specifically the passage of time. “Two sides to a river / Too troubled to cross / It would take you underneath / In the present day’s tune,” Grohl sings on the monitor. “We’ll drown within the center / Which facet are you on / A method or one other / In the present day’s tune.”
The monitor marks the Foo Fighters’ first new authentic music since their 2023 album However Right here We Are; the band quietly resurfaced for the primary time amid all the domestic drama lately to release a Minor Threat cover.
It seems Grohl and firm are revving up for his or her grand return because the band has introduced October live shows in Indonesia, Singapore, and Japan, their first reveals collectively in over a yr.
From Rolling Stone US.