New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Sony Music) With the recently leaked snippet of opener "Bridge Burning having surpassed 500,000 plays in one week alone,
Foo Fighters have now unleashed a second morsel of hard rock goodness from their upcoming seventh studio album, out April 8th through Sony
Music Entertainment Australia.
Foo Fighters fans hanging for another several seconds of new material should head post-haste to https://www.foofighters.fm and move the virtual tuner to 101.5 for this new taste.
The album received its first public airing at a surprise gig Friday, January 28 at the minuscule Velvet Jones club in Santa Barbara, where the band ripped through the entire record from start to finish--and followed up with a crushing live collection of greatest hits and rarely played deep cuts including "Wattershed from the band's self-titled 1995 debut.
In other live FF news, the band has announced its first U.S. show (so far) of 2011: a May 21 headlining appearance at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. CST Wednesday, February 2, and will be available via https://Hangoutmusicfest.com. The show is the second of many American dates to be announced in an upcoming world tour, the first being a May 27 appearance at the USA's Sasquatch! Festival in George, WA. Other recently announced FF dates abroad include headlining appearances at the UK's Isle of Wight, the Netherlands' PinkPop, Wulheide Stadium in Berlin, and numerous others across the UK and Europe including an already sold out 130,000 capacity July 2 & 3 headline "weekender at the Milton Keynes Bowl in the UK. Australian fans will have to stay tuned for more news on when the band will be hitting our shores!
Foo Fighters' still untitled seventh album, produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Alan Moulder, was recorded entirely on analog tape in the garage of Dave Grohl's home in California's San Fernando Valley. The new record also marks the Foo Fighters' first full length effort with legendary producer Butch Vig, who produced new tracks "Wheels and "Word Forward on 2009's Greatest Hits and with whom Dave Grohl (of course) first worked on Nirvana's classic Nevermind. Nirvana co-founder Krist Novoselic also makes a cameo, contributing bass and accordion to "I Should Have Known, while former Nirvana touring guitarist and longtime extended FF family member Pat Smear now joins the permanent FF core of Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett.
Australians love the Foo Fighters and it's no secret that the band love Australia right back! Their Greatest Hits album has reached sales of double Platinum, Echos just shy of triple Platinum, In Your Honor 4x Platinum, One By One 3x Platinum, There Is Nothing Left To Lose 3x Platinum.
