Dave Grohl: Celebs Rumors

Dave Grohl has released an expanded deluxe edition of his memoir, The Storyteller: Tales In Life & Music.First released in 2021, the original version of the book recounted the Foo Fighters frontman’s life and music career, from his origins in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to his experiences touring from the age of 18.Now, an expanded version of The Storyteller, which hit bookshelves yesterday (October 31) is said to include a variety of additional and never-before-seen content.The Storyteller’s deluxe paperback edition includes a first-person essay about Grohl’s philosophy on creativity, and a series of writing prompts aimed at sparking readers’ own creative pursuits.The updated memoir also provides insight into the genesis and songwriting behind four Foo Fighters songs, and how Grohl’s relationship to these songs has evolved over time.Elsewhere, the new edition features a specialty playlist that Grohl listens to while cooking or driving, and a recount of the musician’s first time meeting Paul McCartney – previously an audiobook exclusive.These insights add to the already expansive list of experiences detailed in The Storyteller’s original version, which described run-ins with the likes of Elton John, Pantera and Josh Homme, among many others.The memoir also touches on Grohl’s time as a member of Nirvana, an experience he later said he was “scared to write” given the sensitivity around frontman Kurt Cobain’s death.

Nandi Bushell, the 13-year-old drummer who gained fame for her impressive drum covers, has released a new video of her playing along to Slipknot’s ‘Psychosocial’.The video, posted on her YouTube channel on October 31, shows Bushell dressed up as a devil as she launches into an enthusiastic cover of the 2008 metal anthem. “Being a Slipknot #maggot is not just for #halloween but for #life!”, Bushell wrote in the video description.Bushell, who shot to viral fame for her online drum battles with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, has been playing drums since she was five years old and has posted hundreds of videos of her covering songs by various artists including Nirvana, Metallica and Queen.

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Christopher Walken has made a surprise appearance on this year’s Saturday Night Live Halloween special.The 80-year-old actor appeared on the sketch show last night (October 28), his first time on the show since 2008. This week’s episode was hosted by Nate Bargatze with the Foo Fighters as musical guests.Walken’s character appeared to explain “the true meaning of Halloween” to Mikey Day’s President Joe Biden, who had decorated the Oval Office in time for Halloween weekend.“I’m the spirit of Halloween, the ghost of All Hallow’s past,” Walken said in the sketch.

Caroline Brew editor Timothée Chalamet will host the Nov. 11 “Saturday Night Live” episode, with Boygenius as the musical guest. In the most recent “SNL” episode, Nate Bargatze, who is currently touring the U.S.

Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic have revealed that Nirvana once made producer Steve Albini prank call Eddie Vedder and KISS‘ Gene Simmons.While appearing on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the surviving members of the iconic grunge band and Albini shared that they would help pass the time while in the studio by prank-calling people.This was during their time spent at the Pachyderm Recording Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. They recalled how there wasn’t very much to do.”This was in February, in the dead of winter, in the middle of fucking nowhere,” said Grohl.

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Dave Grohl has joined Norah Jones to play some Foo Fighters rarities on her podcast – listen below.The Foo Fighters frontman has previously collaborated with the jazz singer on the song ‘Virginia Moon’, which appeared 2005 album ‘In Your Honour‘. The duo performed a cover of the song in the podcast below.

Dave Grohl has joined The Breeders as a special guest on stage to perform a cover of Pixies‘ hit track ‘Gigantic’.The Foo Fighters frontman joined Kim Deal and Co. at their official Austin City Limits late-night show on Friday, October 13. “We’ve been touring with him,” said Deal while Grohl appeared on stage.

Rick Astley has claimed that Ozzy Osbourne once attempted to recruit a backing band for him.The ‘80s star told Classic Rock magazine that the former Black Sabbath singer was chatting to him during the height of his success, and made the impromptu offer.“He said, ‘Are you over here playing?’, and I said, ‘No, we’re just doing promo,’” Astley recalled. “And then went, ‘If you want to put a band together, let me know.

Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Steve Albini have addressed claims that Nirvana‘s success conflicted with their punk roots.The trio are due to appear on Conan O’Brien’s podcast Conan Needs A Friend, where their episode will be released on Monday (October 23). In an exclusive preview clip from Billboard, they discussed the 30th anniversary of ‘In Utero‘, where O’Brien asked whether the band’s success went against their DIY punk background.In response, producer Albini said he had often encountered this criticism from people “outside the culture of punk”, saying: “I have never experienced that genuinely from anybody in the punk scene that wasn’t purely an expression of jealousy.” He continued: “on the whole, Nirvana’s fans wanted Nirvana to become successful and self-sustaining and beloved.”Grohl also chimed in to give his thoughts on navigating Nirvana’s success.

Thania Garcia Thirty years ago, in September of 1993, Nirvana released its final record, the Steve Albini-produced “In Utero.” Nirvana, comprised of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, was considered the “it” group of the moment following the monumental commercial success of its influential sophomore effort “Nevermind.” “In Utero” was the response to their mounting fame. In honor of the three-decade milestone, O’Brien hosts Novoselic, Grohl and Albini for a new episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” to talk about the recording process for the album.

Foo Fighters have been confirmed to perform for Saturday Night Live later this month.Last night (October 17), Saturday Night Live took to social media to confirm its guest host and musical guests for the October 28 episode, marking the Foo Fighters’ first performance on the show since November 2020.The October 28 episode will be hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze.October 28! Nate Bargatze hosts with musical guest Foo Fighters! pic.twitter.com/c9snDzWodj— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) October 17, 2023Foo Fighters’ October 28 performance on Saturday Night Live will mark their first time on the show since November 2020. The band were slated to perform in May, but had their episode cut due to the since-ended WGA Hollywood writers’ strike.Foo Fighters will be the third musical guest to perform on the show since its return post-strike last week.

Selome Hailu “Saturday Night Live” is back in full swing. After Pete Davidson returned to the late night comedy to open Season 49 alongside musical guest Ice Spice, with Bad Bunny pulling double duty the week after, “SNL” has set the lineup for the Oct.

Foo Fighters were joined for a performance of ‘Best Of You’ with Shania Twain during their show at Austin City Limits last night – check out the moment below.After playing her own set at the festival earlier in the evening, Twain later joined Dave Grohl and co for a surprise appearance during the band’s set.The Foos have been joined by several special guests on their current tour, including the likes of Billy Idol, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Alanis MorissetteCheck out the moment with Twain here:Shania Twain performed "Best of You" with Foo Fighters at Austin City Limits pic.twitter.com/gdLBVl4BKQ— RYAN-SUIT (@ryanw_ww) October 8, 2023The fact Shania Twain left her set and was able to get on stage with the Foo Fighters is soooo iconic. Wow! #ACLFest pic.twitter.com/5NlmkDjpRr— Taylor Kamnetz (@Taylor_Kamn) October 8, 2023Earlier this week, Foo Fighters announced a 2024 US stadium leg for their ‘Everything Or Nothing’ tour, set to take place next summer.Last week, the band teased that they had something in the works for 2024, sharing a cryptic message and clip to their social media channels.

Foo Fighters have performed a short, impromptu cover of Led Zeppelin‘s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ at Ohana Music Festival – watch fan-shot footage of the cover below.While performing at the Ohana Music Festival on October 1, Dave Grohl and co. whipped out a short cover of the Led Zeppelin classic during a break in the set as a member of the audience was receiving medical attention in the pit.Grohl said to the medical staff attending to the audience member as he played the song’s opening riff: “Did you figure that shit out, or do I have to play ‘Stairway To Heaven’? ‘Cause I’ll fucking play this motherfucker, you know that right?”The band went on to play the song’s first verse, before they were notified that the audience member was cleared and that they could get back to their set.

Foo Fighters are taking off on a proper headlining North American tour next summer.Starting in mid-July, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers embark on their ‘Everything or Nothing At All Tour’ with special guests The Pretenders, The Hives, Mammoth WVH, Amyl and The Sniffers, Alex G and L7 on select dates.New York-based Foo fans are in luck, too.The tour is scheduled to kick off at Flushing’s Citi Field with back to back concerts on Wednesday, July 17 and Friday, July 19.Want to hear Grohl and co. perform hits like “My Hero,” “Learning To Fly,” “Everlong,” “The Pretender,” “Best Of You” and tracks from their 2023 album “But Here We Are” live?We’re here to help you find tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Oct.

Foo Fighters are teasing something for 2024, sharing a cryptic message and clip to their social media channels earlier today (September 29).The band made their return with their 11th studio album ‘But Here We Are’ in June, marking their first record since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022.They also returned to the road for an extensive run of shows and festival headline sets, as well as an emotional secret performance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.Now, Foo Fighters are teasing some activity for next year. “2024: Everything Or Nothing At All,” they captioned a short visualiser on their social media accounts.

Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad has claimed that Kurt Cobain was “jealous” of his bandmate Dave Grohl.The author recently appeared on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast to talk about an expanded version of his 1993 book about the band, Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana.In the original release, Cobain described a guitar part written by Grohl on ‘In Utero’ track ‘Scentless Apprentice’ as “boneheaded”.When asked about the quote on the podcast, Azerrad responded (via Loudwire): “I thought that was a little condescending, frankly.”Elsewhere in the Come As You Are book, Cobain is quoted as calling Grohl “the most well-adjusted boy in the whole world”. The writer claimed that the late frontman was jealous of the drummer who would go on to form Foo Fighters because of this.“I think Kurt partly was mocking Dave for being fairly together and normal,” Azerrad explained.

Foo Fighters dedicated their performance of ‘Everlong’ at Louder Than Life Festival to Kent Stax, the late drummer of Dave Grohl‘s former band Scream.“I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Scream, and the man whose place I took in that band, Mr. Kent Stax,” Grohl said during the performance earlier this week. “One of the best punk rock drummers of all time.

Red Hot Chili Peppers do his wrestling theme song.Alternative music within the pro-wrestling was very common within the height of the sport in the early 00s. For example, Disturbed recorded a version of ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s entrance theme and bands such as Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Motörhead and Drowning Pool performed at WWE’s biggest event, Wrestlemania.Speaking to Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, X-Pac – real name Sean Waltman – opened up about how he turned down having the rock aristocrats create a theme song for X-Factor, his professional wrestling stable he founded in early 2001 with fellow WWE wrestlers Justin Credible and Albert.“Shane McMahon comes up to me and goes, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about having Red Hot Chili Peppers do your new theme music,'” he told Van Vliet, “and I go, ‘No, I want Uncle Kracker!'”After being asked if the Red Hot Chili Peppers were really “in line” to record the track, X-Pac replied: “When they say something like that, and especially at that point that where WWE was, we were pretty hot.”He continued: “I was the one that picked Uncle Kracker, because I knew him, and that’s kinda how I was at the time.”X-Factor would go on to be a short lived group within WWE.

Scream, has died aged 61.The news comes just one day after the hardcore punk band announced their first new album since 1993.Stax’s death was announced yesterday (September 20) when bandmates Pete and Franz Stahl shared an update with fans and posted a heartfelt tribute to the musician.“We are heartbroken to share that our drummer Bennett Kent Stacks passed away this morning after a bout with metastatic cancer. Kent is the original heartbeat of Scream.

Rick Astley covered Foo Fighters‘ ‘Everlong’ at a gig in Leicester last weekend, describing the track as “one of the best songs ever”.The singer was performing at Radio 2 in the Park in Leicester on Saturday (September 17) when he joked that he likes “playing other people’s songs”, asking the crowd if they were “in the mood for us to murder one of the best songs ever?”.The ’80s pop icon and his band then launched in a rendition of the Foos’ classic 1997 song.

EXCLUSIVE: Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe, the renowned songwriter-friendly venue that gave an early musical home to Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and many other country and pop stars, is getting the stage musical treatment. Bluebird, a new musical inspired by the cafe, is in the works from Something Rotten! co-creator Wayne Kirkpatrick and songwriter-producer Don Chaffer.

Foo Fighters teamed up with Billy Idol over the weekend to perform a cover of Sex Pistols classic ‘Pretty Vacant’.Idol joined Dave Grohl‘s band on vocals for a performance of the 1977 single during the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival on Sunday night (September 3). You can view footage below.The band last teamed up with with Idol in 2018 when they covered John Lennon’s ‘Gimme Some Truth’ at the Welcome to Rockville festival.Idol’s guitarist, Billy Morrison also shared a photo with the band following the performance, writing: “Thank you Aspen, and thank you @foofighters – it was a great day yesterday.

Foo Fighters will be performing.Dave Grohl’s hard-rocking group is headlining at five major music festivals from Sept. 1 through Oct. 18.Currently, they’re scheduled to close out Aspen, CO’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass on Sept.

Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Shane Hawkins have come together to play a series of rock classics at a pizza bar in California. Check out fan-captured footage of the moment below.The intimate, star-studded set took place at the Rock N Roll Pizza Bar in Simi Valley, California on Monday evening (August 21), and was part of a set by famous covers band Chevy Metal.The band was formed by late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who often performed with the side project in his time away from his Foo Fighters commitments.

Chrissi Hynde teamed up with Guns N’ Roses last night (August 21) during the band’s live show in Boston.The Pretenders frontwoman joined the band to perform the harmonica on the ‘Use Your Illusion I’ track ‘Bad Obsession’ at Fenway Park. You can view footage below.It comes after the band recently released their new single ‘Perhaps’ which the band once again performed last night after they recently showcased it live at the PNC Park in Pittsburgh, last Friday (August 18).The band previously teamed up with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl for ‘Paradise City’ at the close of their set at Glastonbury earlier this summer.Grohl also teamed up with Hynde’s band during their set at Glastonbury that same weekend as did Johnny Mar for a performance which also saw Paul McCartney watching from the side of the stage.Meanwhile, Guns N’ Roses recently announced another new song entitled ‘The General’, which is set to arrive later this year.The track is set to feature as a B-side on a 7-inch vinyl version of ‘Perhaps’ which is due for release on October 27.

William Earl Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has faced many demons since the release of the 2017 album “Villains”: cancer, divorce, rehab and court battles. And the new Queens record, the just-released “In Times New Roman…,” definitely adds weight to the band’s woozy, bluesy rock — a dour energy far removed from the dancier sound conjured by producer Mark Ronson on “Villains.” “Roman,” self-produced by band founder Homme and one of his strongest QOTSA lineups ever, is one of the rawest and heaviest albums the band has delivered, and during Saturday’s Queens, New York stop of their “The End Is Nero Tour,” they proved that sometimes the new material can be a live standout, even as the band approaches its fourth decade of existence.

Hayley Williams has hit out at some sexist “internet bros” after they criticised her for postponing a run of Paramore gigs due to illness.Last week, the band delayed their concert in San Francisco just hours before they were set to perform. They shelved three further gigs on their North American tour in Seattle, Portland and Salt Lake City “in the interest of our health and the ability to put on a show you all deserve”.Ahead of the tour resuming in Tulsa, Oklahoma last Saturday (July 29), Williams shared a statement in which the singer revealed that she had fallen ill during a Houston gig earlier this month.She went on to explain how her “body just gave out” after continuing with the dates regardless.

Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette paid tribute to Sinéad O’Connor last night (July 29) with a cover of ‘Mandinka’.The collaborative performance came during Dave Grohl‘s band’s set at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival. You can view it below.Introducing the cover, which appeared O’Connor’s 1987 debut album ‘The Lion And The Cobra’, the frontman said: “We’re singing this song for a reason tonight,” before Morissette added: “For a beautiful women with high intelligence and deep empathy, way ahead of her time, who is no longer with us.

Nandi Bushell has shared a new video of her covering Adele‘s ‘Easy On Me’, in which she sings and plays the piano.The new cover from the young musician – who shot to viral fame for her online drum battles with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl – is the first video she’s shared of her singing and playing piano simultaneously.“Please, go easy [on] me,” she captioned the video. “This is the first time I am posting a video of me singing and playing piano at the same time. I really hope you all like it.

Teen drumming sensation Nandi Bushell has announced that she is opening her own music school, helping children and adults who dream of one day performing with Foo Fighters. Or who just want to make some noise.“I am so proud to announce I am opening my first music school with my family and music teachers”, she wrote on Instagram.Open to all ages and abilities, the school in Ipswich will be run by Bushell’s family and that of Ashley Howard, who began teaching Bushell to play drums when she was seven years old.

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Foo Fighters have added an extra date in Manchester to their upcoming UK tour.The announcement comes just one day after the band announced that they would be bringing their ongoing tour to the UK, and set to play in various cities next summer.Originally, the UK leg was set to kick off on June 13 2024 with an opening show in Manchester, from there it would resume four days later with a show at Glasgow’s Hampden Stadium, before moving through London, Cardiff and Birmingham.Now, following the pre-sale starting earlier today, the band have confirmed that they will be adding another show in Manchester to the scheduled dates, following unprecedented demand.Also taking place at Emirates Old Trafford Stadium, the new show will be held on June 15, making it the only city other than London to have two scheduled performances from the rock veterans.While Wet Leg and Loose Articles were previously announced as being the support acts for the first Manchester date, it has today been confirmed that both Chroma and Courtney Barnett will be joining Dave Grohl and co. for the second.

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