Latest Release

- NOV 17, 2023
- 2 Songs
- The Colour and the Shape (Bonus Track Version) · 1997
- The Colour and the Shape (Bonus Track Version) · 1997
- Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace · 2007
- In Your Honor · 2005
- There Is Nothing Left to Lose · 1999
- One By One (Deluxe Edition) · 2002
- The Colour and the Shape (Bonus Track Version) · 1997
- Greatest Hits · 1997
- One By One (Deluxe Edition) · 2002
- Concrete and Gold · 2017
Essential Albums
- “It was really just an experiment,” Dave Grohl tells Apple Music of the first Foo Fighters LP, 25 years after its release. “It wasn’t intended to be an album—I’d always recorded songs by myself. To this day, it still sounds like a demo to me. It was done in the moment, without the intention of everything that followed.” But therein lies much of its power: In the months following Kurt Cobain’s death in April 1994, Grohl wrote and recorded every note of Foo Fighters (save for Greg Dulli’s guitar solo on “X-Static”) on a lark, without an audience in mind. It was music for himself more than anyone else. And while no one expected the success that followed, you can certainly hear the possibilities. Grohl had come from punk, but he’s just as devoted to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. That spectrum of influence is on full display for the first time here, whether it’s in the drumming—few have written so many fills that can also double as hooks—or his natural ear for melody. It’s both a reintroduction and a glimpse of what’s to come, from the opening rush of “This Is a Call” to the understated jangle of “Big Me” to the bar-rock sleaze of “For All the Cows” (which he says reminded his mother of Richard Marx) to the muddy catharsis of “Exhausted,” a near-six-minute guitar workout that Grohl played through a battery-powered amp fashioned from a red gasoline can. On “I’ll Stick Around,” he tweaks the sort of pit-friendly pop song (or pop-friendly pit song) that Cobain had blueprinted just four years earlier and points it at his widow, Courtney Love. “It's strange because when you're in a period of loss or grief or mourning, it's like you pick up an instrument and that just spills out,” Grohl says of the songs. “Like an exorcism.” After producing and handing out 100 cassettes to friends from the back of his truck, he was so inspired by the response that he formed a band, started a label, and—still Nirvana’s drummer in most people’s minds at that point—became a frontman. Call it one of rock’s great transformations. “It’s the sound of someone that was just ready to explode, because I was ready for life to just move on,” he says. “I felt like I had to get these songs out of the way, and then I could take a deep breath and live life again. I really look back on it fondly. It was a good time—I was still a kid, man.”
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Artist Playlists
- Dave Grohl's solo project that became an alt-rock giant.
- The alt-rock warriors take goofing around quite seriously.
- Inspiration to drive you everlong.
- Driving, all-or-nothing modern rock with unforgettable melodies.
- The famously upbeat alt-rockers also have their dark moments.
- Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
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Live Albums
Compilations
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Radio Shows
- Foo Fighters celebrate the release of their 10th LP Medicine At Midnight.
- Strombo dives into the band and their album One By One.
- Mark celebrates his birthday and talks with Taylor Hawkins.
- Mark celebrates Halloween and chats with Nate Mendel.
- Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins on what it takes to join the band.
- The Foo Fighters discuss their “Everlong" and everlasting bond.
- Smear talks about the LA punk scene & joining the Foo Fighters.
- The artist shares stories from his time with Nirvana.
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About Foo Fighters
How do you follow-up a stint in the most influential and impactful rock band of your generation? Start the most consistent and long-lasting one. Suddenly relieved of his drummer duties in Nirvana following Kurt Cobain’s 1994 suicide, Dave Grohl dropped his sticks and grabbed his pick, assuming the role of singer/guitarist for a new solo project he dubbed Foo Fighters (named after a World War II-era military term for UFOs). His scrappy 1995 debut under the alias—performed and recorded almost entirely on his own—revealed a Cobain-like gift for folding insidious hooks into raw, grungy riffs. But on the more polished 1997 follow-up, The Colour and the Shape, Grohl revealed a commercial ambition and crowd-pleasing congeniality that his former group never would’ve entertained. On that record, the Foos became a proper band, with Grohl flanked by former Germs and Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear, Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Nate Mendel, and the hard-hitting but ever-affable drummer Taylor Hawkins. From the late ‘90s into the 2020s, the Foos have reigned as alt-rock’s most reliable hit machine and—thanks to their comedic, heavily costumed videos—most eager court jesters, cranking out mosh-pit ragers (“All My Life”), jugular-seizing power ballads (“Best of You”), and steady-as-Petty sing-alongs (“Learn to Fly”) with equal aplomb. And as one of the few ‘90s-era rock bands to maintain their festival-headliner status well into the 21st century, the Foos have become the genre’s most committed keepers of the flame. Whether building their 2014 album Sonic Highways around an HBO music-history series or collaborating with legends like Paul McCartney, the Foo Fighters are the sturdy connective tissue between the classic-rock era and the modern age.
- HOMETOWN
- Seattle, WA, United States
- FORMED
- 1994