Foo Fighters debuted a new song last night called “Dirty Water” at their show in Paris, as Rolling Stone points out. It is from their upcoming album, Concrete and Gold, which is set to arrive September 15th. Watch the footage below. Foo Fighters have also shared the video for “Run,” and debuted “Lah Di Da” and “Sunday Rain” ahead of the LP’s release. Dave Grohl said recently that their new record would include a guest spot from “probably the biggest pop star in the world.” Foo Fighters are on tour through mid-December and they recently announced a new festival, Cal Jam ’17, which will feature Queens of the Stone Age, Liam Gallagher, the Kills, Japandroids, and more.
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Foo Fighters cancel tour in wake of Paris terrorist attacks
In the wake of the horrendous terrorist attacks Paris, Foo Fighters have cancelled the remaining dates in their European tour.
The band discussed in a statement, “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt concern for everyone in Paris that we have been forced to announce the cancellation of the rest of our tour. In light of this senseless violence, the closing of borders, and international mourning, we can’t continue right now. There is no other way to say it. This is crazy and it sucks. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was hurt or who lost a loved one.”
U2 have also canceled the two shows in Paris this weekend they had set to be broadcasted on HBO. In addition, Coldplay postponed a live stream performance in Los Angeles Friday Night.
Foo Fighters have recorded five new songs, including one with Ben Kweller
Foo Fighters, headlining both weekends of Austin City Limits, came out with exciting news on Friday night for the second performance of the festival.
“You know what I did last night?” Dave Grohl asked the crowd during their performance on Friday evening. “I recorded a fucking song in your beautiful city of Austin, Texas.” And that isn’t. “And I’m just gonna say it now: We recorded five fucking new songs in your beautiful city of Austin, Texas. And we’re gonna give it to you! But not tonight.”
“Just by chance,” Grohl continued telling the crowd. “I bumped into an old friend that I hadn’t seen in about 16 years, right as I was recording a vocal. This motherfucker walks in — I’m like, ‘Hey, man!’ — and he starts fucking singing the most beautiful harmony to the thing I was singing. I was like, ‘Get your ass in the vocal booth right now.’ And then he said, ‘Hey, if you want, I’ll come up and sing a song with you tonight.’” Austin resident rocker Ben Kweller took the stage to help with “some straight-up sweet, tug-your-heartstrings ballad shit” on “Big Me,” off of Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut, which had turned 20 in July. Watch below.
Austin City Limits 2015: the best moments
Austin City Limits came to a close on Sunday night and it is time for us to reflect on the best moments of the weekend. The beautiful city of Austin hosted their 12th annual festival this yea and it has one of the most diverse lineups in its history.
Billy Idol still has it going on at 60. It seems as though we were transported back to the 1980’s as Billy Idol and his band came out sporting Idol’s classic blonde hair and clad in leather and denim. Still looking great at 60, it seems like Idol and the band haven’t aged at all in terms of energy. Playing hits like “Dancing With Myself” and Rebel Yell” (although having to restart “Rebel Yell” three times and sarcastically saying “one more time and if we can’t do it this time, I’m retiring”). It was an energetic set was jam-packed with hits and new material, which seemed to drag the show a little bit. However, the band can still put on a dynamic show 34 years later.
Father John Misty did everything you could ever imagine him doing, and even more. He walked out, immediately raised his mic stand behind his back and continued to do his usual pretend striptease as Misty and the band went straight into their set. Although there were not as much sarcasm as expected from him during the set, he still made fun of those filming with their iPhones and even faked filming on a lucky fan’s phone, moving around and holding the phone out. His performance was dramatic, smooth, and entertaining as one would expect from Tillman.
Tame Impala brings a psychedelic mood to the festival as they played a variety of songs from their catalog of albums and EPs including their debut album, Innerspeaker. Moving from song to song, the band accommodated to their hour-long set, joking about the heat and spraying water bottles over the front rows of fans during an instrumental break in between the songs. Kevin Parker’s voice was as trippy as it is when Tame Impala is in the studio. Even though they played shorter than they should have, it was a still a stunning set.
High intensity is the simplest way to put Twenty One Pilots’ set as they played through their songs, ranging from hit to hit from “Tear In My Heart” from their smash album, Blurryface to “Car Radio” from Vessels. Running around across the stage, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun seemed to be relentless and filled with energy. They also initially came out in ski masks and Joseph with the classic black on his body that represents insecurities that he and everyone face that suffocates them. The highlight of the set was when Joseph climbed their stage, the Samsung stage, the largest stage at the festival, and performed the rest of “Car Radio” (or at least tried to with microphone issues) at the top of the stage, holding onto the Texas flag.
As dreamy as in the studio, José González performed at Tito’s Homemade Vodka stage and seemed to put his audience into a trance with his enthralling yet quiet voice and fascinating instrumentals. Without talking much, González went through his set, which included a Junip song and new songs from Vestiges & Claws. The light show that went on worked perfectly with his calming music and the setting sun behind the audience. His set was like the calm before the storm at the hectic, crowded, and sold out Saturday of the festival.
Although coming on ten minutes late and the occasional slip of lyrics, The Strokes performed a worthy set for being closing out the first weekend of the festival. With the occasional snark from frontman Julian Casablancas, the band played through the majority of their discography including a large chunk of their hits including “Reptilla,” however disappointing a number of fans by not playing “Under the Cover of Darkness.” It was a special set as there have been rumors of the band having internal conflicts, but still recording a new album. Nonetheless, the band still sounded and performed as intensely as ever, even performing a one song encore, if it should be called that as they left the stage initially twenty minutes before they should have.
There is one word to describe the Foo Fighter’s headlining two-hour set on Friday night: rambunctious. The band tore through their career-spanning hits, from “Best of You” to the set opener, “Everlong.” Still in the “throne” Grohl performed as energetically as ever, lecturing the crowd how to scream like him, claiming his secret his “vocal juice” (his champagne and beer). It was, to say the least, expected from everyone in the crowd that Gary Clark Jr. would join the band on stage as they recorded What Did I Do? / God As My Witness with him at the legendary Austin City Limits studio in Austin with him and Clark performed at the next stage an hour before. Nonetheless, it was as rowdy and loud as anyone would expect from the Foo Fighters, even twenty years after their debut album. Die-hard fans and the casual listener can all agree that this set proves that the band still has it going on.
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The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Aurora – Foo Fighters
2. Under the Cover of Darkness – The Strokes
3. Often – The Weeknd
4. Every Other Freckle – Alt-J
5. Blame It On Me – George Ezra
6. Fire and the Flood – Vance Joy
7. Car Radio – Twenty One Pilots
8. Better Man – Leon Bridges
9. Funtimes in Babylon – Father John Misty
10. Black Mambo – Glass Animals
11. Let It Carry You – José González
12. On the Road – Houndmouth
13. Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes
14. 10,000 Emerald Pools – BØRNS
15. Can’t Keep Checking My Phone – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
16. Smother – Daughter
17. Anna Sun – Walk the Moon
18. Love Like Ghosts – Lord Huron
19. Make Your Mind Up – Moon Taxi
20. Can’t Deny My Love – Brandon Flowers
Foo Fighters rickroll the Westboro Baptist Church
The United State’s main source of hatred, the Westboro Baptist Church, decided to protest last night’s Foo Fighters show in Kansas City, Missouri, for unknown reasons, even though there is never much of a reason for them to ever protest anything. The protesters assembled in front of the Sprint Center before the show when the band went riding in on a pickup truck blasting “Never Gonna Give You Up” and dancing while holding up signs saying “You got Rick Roll’d (again)” and “Keep It Clean.” This is the second time that Dave Grohl did a counter-protest against the WBC from a pickup truck. Watch here.
All of Foo Fighters’ Million Dollar Demos tape leaks online
Foo Fighters released Songs From the Laundry Room, a 10-inch EP which features unreleased demos from their 1995 debut on Record Store Day.
The entirety of what has become known as Million Dollar Demos have surfaced on Reddit. As the story goes, the turmoil inside the band nearly forced the Foo Fighters to break up while recording the 2002 album, One By One. They ultimately recorded two different versions of the album, the latter being released into the public. The other version has remained unreleased, even though several tracks from it have been leaked.
The Million Dollar Demos has 11 tracks, 10 were considered for the album. Out of those 10, three were officially released: “Tired Of You”, “Walking A Line”, and “Normal”. Two others, “Have It All” and “Come Back” later leaked online.
A Reddit post explains:
“For some reason, an anonymous Redditor made a new account, whose only post is a download link for the Million Dollar Demos. This is the first time these have been made available in their entirety to the public, and have been sought after by die-hard fans (myself included) for the last 13 years. Most of the songs are similar to their final counterparts, while other songs like ‘Come Back’ and ‘Lonely As You’ are drastically different.”
Find more details on Million Dollar Demos as well as a link to download through Reddit. Listen to the demo version of “Have It All” here.
Million Dollar Demos Tracklist:
01. All My Life
02. Low #
03. Walking a Line ^
04. Have It All
05. Times Like These #
06. Disenchanted Lullaby #
07. Tired of You #
08. Halo
09. Normal ^
10. Lonely As You
11. Overdrive
12. Burn Away
13. Come Back
# = Appears on One By One
^ = Released as B-side
Foo Fighters cancel tour dates after Dave Grohl breaks leg
Even though Dave Grohl still continued on through the rest of Foo Fighter’s set in Gothenberg, Sweden Friday night after fracturing his leg, that will not happen continuing forward.
It was confirmed by doctors that Grohl did fracture a leg after falling off the stage. The band has been forced to cancel two dates as a result, which includes a headlining performance af Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands on June 14th. The band also cancelled the June 16th concert in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
For now, Foo Fighter’s next planned concert is June 19th at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London.






