• 6 Bands That Began as Solo Projects: Grizzly Bear, Foo Fighters, and more

    Unless they're singing folk songs like Bob Dylan, solo artists are rarely "solo" in the most literal sense of the word, typically employing a backing band to play along with them on record and during concerts. However, just as some artists leave their bands in pursuit of a solo career, some solo artists feel more comfortable playing music within a band environment. Here are six great bands that began as solo projects for one of the members.

  • Producer Butch Vig gives status of new Foo Fighters album

    The Foo Fighters eighth studio album is "almost halfway done," producer Butch Vig has told Kerrang (via NME). Vig, who is thought to be co-producing the album with Steve Albini, says the band is experimenting with challenging recording techniques similar to their process on 2011's Wasting Light, which was made in Grohl's garage.

  • Seven Singers Who Should Be Replacing Kurt Cobain: PJ Harvey, Lemmy, and more

    At tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the surviving members of Nirvana will be performing with Joan Jett on lead vocals. Jett will probably do a fine job, but I doubt that she was their first choice to replace Kurt Cobain for the night. Here are seven singers who should have at least been considered to sing for Nirvana at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

  • Foo Fighters recording new LP in multiple cities with Steve Albini and Butch Vig

    According to Consequence of Sound, it appears that the Foo Fighters are recording their new album in multiple studios. As the article notes, the band has yet to officially confirm the information, but Reddit points to a Facebook post that reports of new songs recorded by the Foo Fighters at Washington D.C.'s Inner Ear Studios, Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios with Steve Albini and Los Angeles' 606 Studios with Butch Vig.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers announce new album before Super Bowl show

    The Super Bowl has increasingly become a musical event, from VH1's weeklong concert series throughout New York City, to the big band that is the game's halftime show. Saturday night, appropriately, featured the biggest live sets, as the Foo Fighters and Zac Brown Band played Midtown Manhattan and the Red Hot Chili Peppers prepped for their big game appearance by headlining the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

  • Demos from Dain Bramage, Dave Grohl's Pre-Nirvana band, discovered

    Dave Grohl has been involved with plenty of bands, but people will always bring it back to Nirvana. Even as Grohl enters his 20th year as the leader of the Foo Fighters, his reputation is still based more on his four-year tenure with Nirvana (fans of the latter band know he wasn't even with the band on its debut, Bleach). And of course, Grohl was involved with other groups before he came to Nirvana. One of those bands was Dain Bramage, and eight of its tracks from 1986 were recently dug up.

  • New Foo Fighters album is underway

    The Foo Fighters are officially back in the studio, according to a post on Instagram, which simply states "It's F***ing ON" next to a row of ATR magnetic tapes, marked Foo Fighters LP 8. Based on the photo, it would appear the band is staying old school and recording with an analog, reel-to-reel tape. But despite the basic approach, frontman Dave Grohl has been claiming that the new record will be revolutionary.

  • Firefly Music Festival reveals 2014 lineup

    The Firefly Music Festival has announced its 2014 lineup. Most notably, OutKast will be among the headliners, marking the third of their upcoming 40 shows. Foo Fighters and Jack Johnson are also slated as headliners this year.
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