Atlanta’s Music Midtown Timeshare Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters with Deluna : April 25, 2012

Atlanta’s recently revived Music Midtown festival will this year feature Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam, organizers announced yesterday. This year’s festival will be h [...]

Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters Headline Pensacola’s Deluna Fest : April 17, 2012

Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters have been announced as the headliners for the DeLuna Music Festival, which will be held this later this year in Pensacola, Fla. Much lik [...]

Frances Bean: Dave Grohl Not Slimy Perv, Mom Needs Twitter Ban : April 13, 2012

Over the past year-and-a-half, Courtney Love has been sued twice for defamation because of comments she has posted on Twitter. But it doesn’t seem that the lawsuits hav [...]

Foo Fighters, The Cure Headline Reading & Leeds Festivals : March 14, 2012

The lineups for this year’s Reading and Leeds Music Festivals have been announced, and will be headlined by the Foo Fighters, the Cure and Kasabian this year. As usu [...]

Adele, Foo Fighters Rack Up Awards at Grammys : February 13, 2012

Adele was the big winner at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards last night, but many artists, including the Foo Fighters also left the ceremony with multiple awards. At the [...]

Kanye West Top Grammy Nominations with 7 : December 01, 2011

Announced during a televised ceremony on Wednesday night, the nominations for the 2012 Grammy Awards have been announced, and Kanye West leads the competition with seven. [...]

Foo Fighters Take on the Wild West with October/November Dates : June 14, 2011

The Foo Fighters have tacked on an additional leg of dates onto their arena tour of North America. Pre-sales for the newly announced headline shows will start on June [...]

Foo Fighters Announce New Tour Stops in Memphis, Little Rock : March 16, 2011

David Grohl has announced more dates for the Foo Fighter tour, which makes fans in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Iowa, and Montana very happy. The tickets for the extra [...]

Eminem, Muse, Foo Fighters Leaked as Lollapalooza Headliners : February 09, 2011

Three headliners for this summer's Lollapalooza have been confirmed by anonymous industry sources according to Billboard. Allegedly the Foo Fighters, Muse and Eminem wil [...]

Death Cab, Foo Fighters, Wilco Sign on for Sasquatch Festival : February 08, 2011

The Sasquatch lineup was announced last night during a concert in Seattle featuring Das Racist and the Thermals. That's a pretty good place for announcing pretty much an [...]

foo fighters Biography

The rock band The Foo Fighters were formed in 1994 in Seattle, Washington. Dave Grohl, former drummer for Nirvana, formed the band as a solo project after leaving Nirvana. Prior to “Foo Fighters” being released, the debut album for the group, Grohl enlisted drummer William Goldsmith and bassist Nate Mendel, both who had been Sunny Day Real Estate members, along with guitarist Pat Smear, touring Nirvana bandmate, to complete The Foo Fighters lineup. Before gaining popularity they started performing in Portland, Oregon. During the recording of “The Colour and the Shape in 1997,” the band's second album, Goldsmith left the band. Smear departure shortly thereafter. Franz Stahl and Taylor Hawkins replaced them, although Stahl left the band before the recording of their third album in 1999, “There Is Nothing Left to Lose.”

After “There Is Nothing Left to Lose” was completed, guitarist Chris Shiflett joined the band. In 2002 “One by One,” the band's fourth album, was released. In 2005, the Foo Fighters released “In Your Honor,” which was a mixture of heavy and acoustic material. In 2007 “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace” was released. Smear rejoined the band officially in 2010. “Wasting Light,” the band's seventh album, is scheduled to be released in April 2011.

All six albums of the Foo Fighters have been nominated for Grammys and three of them have won Best Rock Album Grammy Awards.