Foo Fighters got the "Led" out at the 2012 Kennedy Center honors. The band performed a cover of Led Zeppelin's 'Rock and Roll,' and it did so with plenty of venom and vigor. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and co. should be proud.
Some younger listeners might think of him as a flannel-wearing, analog-loving geezer, but Neil Young is actually pretty tech-savvy, and he demonstrated his continued willingness to experiment in the digital sphere with an hourlong Twitter chat on Wednesday (Oct. 24).
The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon certainly made the Foo Fighters' 'Everlong' his own during a recent visit to the BBC Radio's Live Lounge. Fallon turned in a somewhat offbeat acoustic version of the tune, reworking the vocal melody (or maybe that's just how he sings naturally) and adding an ever-so-slightly off-tempo strumming rhythm (or maybe that's how he naturally plays). Watch it above.
Foo Fighters turn in another memorable video with 'Learn to Fly,' which features a cameo from Jack Black as an airline worker who stashes his weed in a commercial jet's coffee pot. Hilarity ensues when everybody on the plane -- pa
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has sent an open letter to fans thanking them for all the support they've given the band over the last year and confirming his recent announcement that the band is going on an extended break now that they've wrapped up touring behind last year's 'Wasting Light' album.
Fans on hand Saturday (Sept. 29) for the Global Citizens Festival in New York City's Central Park likely caught the last Foo Fighters show for the foreseeable future, as frontman Dave Grohl told a crowd of 60,000 that he and his bandmates are planning an extended break.
An unplugged version of the Foo Fighters hit the stage of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this afternoon (Sept. 12) to close out Apple's iPhone 5 launch event, during which the computer company unveiled the latest version of its popular smartphone.
The Foo Fighters treated about 1,000 lucky fans attending a Rock the Vote concert at the Fillmore in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday (Sept. 5) to what Billboard reports is believed to be the band's longest concert ever -- a three-and-a-half hour, 35-song, career-spanning set. "Tonight we play as long as we want and as much as we want," frontman Dave Grohl told the intimate crowd -- and apparently, they wanted lots of both.
Last week we learned that Foo Fighters would be playing a fundraiser for Rock the Vote in Charlotte, N.C. on Sept. 5. The concert is timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention that would be taking place in Charlotte at the same time. Now we have learned the other acts that will be on the bill.
Dave Grohl told the massive crowd watching his Foo Fighters perform at the Reading festival on Sunday night (Aug. 26) in Reading, England that the concert would be the band's last show for a long time -- directly contradicting the Foo Fighters' itinerary, which has four more U.S. festival appearances still scheduled for 2012.
