After achieving the longest consecutive run at the top spot for a studio album by a solo artist in British chart history for her album “21”, Adele’s reign at the number 1 spot on the UK album chart has finally been taken over by the Foo Fighters’ new album “Wasting Light”. Despite losing the top spot, the British singer is still at #2 with “21” and is also at #3 with her debut album “19”. I’m impressed with her success in the US and UK, and I won’t be surprised if she manages to make her way in front of the Foo Fighters again. The rock band may have a solid album but there’s no denying Adele her throne.
The Foo Fighters were the music guests on this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which saw Oscar award winning actress Helen Mirren as host. The American rock band took the stage to perform some tracks from their album “Wasting Light”, namely the lead single “Rope” and “Walk”. It was a solid effort and it looks like their appearance on SNL has paid off as their album has since gotten back in the top 10 on the US iTunes. I’ve always been a fan of the Foo Fighters so I’m really happy that they’re garnering success for their current record.
Foo Fighters – Rope – SNL Performance Video
Foo Fighters – Walk – SNL Performance Video
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl has decided to jump on the anti-“Glee” train while promoting his band’s new documentary “Back and Forth” at the SXSW festival. The rock star said “It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do fucking Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his fucking show… fuck that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee. I watched 10 minutes. It’s not my thing. The Glee guy, what a fucking jerk. Slash was the first one. He wanted to do Guns ‘n’ Roses and Slash is like, ‘I hate fucking musicals. It’s worse than Grease.’ Then [Murphy's] like, ‘Well, of course he’d say that, he’s a washed up old’ rock star, that’s what they fucking do.’ And then Kings of Leon say, ‘No, we don’t want to be on your show.’ And then he’s like, ‘Snotty little assholes…’ And it’s just like, Dude, maybe not everyone loves Glee. Me included.” To each their own I guess. It’s their music after all.
The band has released a new music video for their song “Rope”. Actually, this can hardly be called a music video since it’s mainly just a performance video in which the band just plays their song in a white room. But then again this is pretty fashionable for alternative rock bands it would seem and Foo Fighters don’t want to fall in behind. The song itself isn’t really half bad, the instrumentation and the lyrics are within reasonable limits and Dave Grohl’s vocals seem to add a bit of a twist to everything, even though this sounds like your basic alternative rock piece. There’s also somewhat of a light show toward the end of the music video. If there are any Foo Fighters fans out there who are tired to just listening to the song and want a few images to associate with the music, then they might want to give this music video a view or two.
Foo Fighters – Rope – Music Video:
Dave Grohl has said the way to make it into the Foo Fighters is to “be able to have a drink or two”.
Grohl, 40, is the frontman of the US rock band Foo Fighters, and he told how the band first formed through the members’ love of alcohol.
The band’s drummer Taylor Hawkins used to drum with Alanis Morissette, and Grohl said: “That’s how I met him. We became drinking buddies before we decided to be in a band together.
“That’s how you make your way into the Foo Fighters; you don’t have to be a great musician, you just have to be able to have a drink or two.”
Source: Splash News
The McCain campaign has been using a lot of songs without artists? permissions and they should have anticipated that someone is going to get mad at some point. They recently used the Foo Fighters? ?My Hero? for which the band was none too pleased about. The band said ?This isn?t the first time the McCain campaign has used a song without making any attempt to get approval or permission from the artist. It?s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property. The saddest thing about this is that ?My Hero? was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.? The Foo Fighters, along with Heart, Van Halen, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne all want to have the campaign stop using their songs.
