Tag Archives: Foo Fighters

Featured Music I’m Salty And I Know It: The 2012 Grammy Predictions

by Rich Thomas
February 9, 2012 - 10:42 am

Here’s what I love about the Grammys: everyone wins. When Robert Plant and Alison Krauss took home Album of the Year in 2009—or when Bob Dylan beat out Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1998—tuxedoed traditionalists got to poo-poo the upstarts who had come challenge the status quo. Then last year, indie rockers everywhere gave grandpa the business when Arcade Fire beat out chart toppers like Gaga, Katy Perry, Eminem and Lady Antebellum. And even if you’re cynical or tragically hip or “don’t really care about the Grammys except for Best Instrumental Arrangement because it’d be really funny for a song called ‘Nasty Dance’ to win an award,” you can always pour a drink, tweet yourself into a #coma and get your jollies the good, old fashioned American way… by being unreasonably judgmental while trying to guess who wins. Here, let me get you started.

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Music Foo Me Once, Shame on You: Foo Me Twice, Well Alright

by Barbie Brady
September 28, 2011 - 12:53 pm

No matter how you slice it, the Foo Fighters have earned their reputations as the nicest guys in rock n roll. Currently on tour in the US, but heading to Australia later this year, I caught up with them in both Columbus and my hometown of Pittsburgh PA. They threw down a 2 hour and 40 minute set of the loudest, proudest rock from the past 15 years. In a word…EPIC!

Lead singer (as if I have to introduce him), Dave Grohl told me that its like hosting a cocktail party every day at your office. Everyone is there to party and its his job to show them a good time. I can only imagine it being exhausting, but that’s why I’m an Editor, and he’s a Rock Star.

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Featured Film Fridays Music Rain or Shine We Came To Rock: Lollapalooza Day 3

by Kim Taylor
August 8, 2011 - 5:02 pm

British post-punkers Arctic Monkeys managed to play a partial set to a drenched yet committed crowd after the first of two huge storms shut down outside stages on Day 3 of Lollapalooza 2011. The band delivered their catchy hits including, “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor,” and other recognizable tunes from their first two explosive albums in an energetic yet hurried set.

Arctic Monkeys at Lollapalooza 2011

Later, Foo Fighters performed a torrential two-hour finale of old and new songs on another main stage in the rain – sounding and looking stellar as always (even drenched). Lead singer/guitarist, Dave Grohl, yet again steers the Foo Fighters into becoming the most seminal American rock band of this musical era with hit after hit song and consistently brilliant headlining live performances like this one. Hence, it was fitting Foo Fighters should close this historical 20th year of Lollapalooza. As they say, it will go down in history.

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Featured Gallery Music Punk Rock Mariachi: Mariachi El Bronx

by Lisa Johnson
August 4, 2011 - 9:01 am

Mariachi El Bronx celebrated the release of their second self-titled album at La Cita in downtown Los Angeles with a two night sold-out stand.

Taking on an artistic challenge, ChinaShopMag was there rockumenting with the aid of the Instagram app.

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Film Access All Areas: Foo Fighters with Director James Moll

by Lisa Johnson
June 10, 2011 - 12:51 pm

JAMES MOLL - Director 2011

Foo Fighters: Back And Forth is released on DVD this week. If you’re a fan of music and a good story, then seeing Foo Fighters: Back And Forth is essential viewing. ChinaShopMag got to hang out with the film’s director James Moll on the Universal Lot where his office is tucked behind the legendary Phantom of The Opera soundstage (oh it’s legendary alright! And possibly haunted). Hearing him speak about the art of film, it’s clear that James Moll loves his job! Which is handy when you make movies for a living.

When he first started working on the lot, he told me he’d take his lunch up to the Psycho house on the hill and eat it sitting on the porch, watching the tourists roll by on the Studio Tram. It’s a lovely view from up there he tells me. Today on our impromptu walking tour of the Universal Studios lot, Moll is posing for photos in front of the CSI set on stage 24. A Tram rolls by, and they start snapping fervently perhaps mistaking the director for a star of the crime scene show. Moll is working on his EGOT, so far nailing a few Emmys and an Oscar. The former for Best Documentary Feature for The Last Days in 1999. EGOT stands for Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony. Tracy Jordan has one on 30 Rock. If James Moll keeps it up, he’ll have his EGOT soon enough.

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Video Foo Fighters Live #notatcoachella

by Barbie Brady
April 15, 2011 - 2:35 pm

Foo Fighters

Although I sent a lucky team of contributors out to the desert on their own personal musical journey this weekend, I am #notatcoachella. So I’m promoting all the awesome that is happening not there. If you are on twitter, use the hash tag #notatcoachella and you can contribute to the millions of us finding fun elsewhere.

In the meantime, the Foo Fighters are also #notatcoachella this year. And their new album, Wasting Light, was just released like a wild boar into my consciousness. I think these boys are onto something!

Happy Weekend Everyone!
Words by Barbie Brady

Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Paul Simon, Alison Krauss, Meat Puppets, Thursday, The Apache Relay, and Foo Fighters

by Shop Keeper
April 12, 2011 - 1:55 pm

Foo Fighters - Wasting LIght

Damn, too many this week… Paul Simon returns to the grandiosity of Graceland 25 years later… the other big drop would be Foo Fighters and their Wasting Light…Meat Puppets are still going strong after 30 or so years with Lollipop… Alison Krauss recoups after her successful pairing with Plant and flies solo again in Paper Airplane…and Thursday returns with No Devolucion, whatever that means.

The Apache Relay – American Nomad

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! [CD release]

Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field [CD release]

letlive. - Fake History

Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! – self titled

k.d. Lang - k.d. Lang And The Siss Boom Bang: Sing It Loud

Rebirth Brass Band - Rebirth Of New Orleans

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane

Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup

Jessie J - Who You Are

TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light

Agnes Obel - Philharmonics

Emilie Simon - The Big Machine

He Is We - My Forever

Vivian Girls - Share The Joy

Thursday - No Devolucion

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Atmosphere - The Family Sign

Wild Palm - Until Spring

Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion

The Feelies - Here Before

Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What

Meat Puppets - Lollipop

Low - C’mon

Sonny And The Sunsets - Hit After Hit

Featured Film Foo Fighters Back and Forth Premiere at SXSW

by Barbie Brady and Lisa Johnson
March 21, 2011 - 10:14 am

Foo Fighters at the SXSW Premier

People can’t seem to stop talking about the Foo Fighters right now. Having been around for over 15 years, they still remain as relevant as ever. On Tuesday night at the closing of the SXSW Film Festival and Interactive activities in Austin the band premiered their latest endeavor, a documentary film called Foo Fighters Back and Forth.

After hearing about this project for the past 6 months I had some expectations. I knew the band was recording in Dave Grohl’s garage in his home on tape, with legendary producer Butch Vig at the helm. I knew that cameras where there for something like 3 months capturing the process. I also knew that they shot at least 5 hours of footage at the bands secret show at the Roxy Theatre last month. So my anticipation was that this film would focus on the latest and greatest antics and the making of a fresh but yet nostalgic process of writing a record.

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Featured Music Foo Fighters Secret Shows

by Barbie Brady
February 8, 2011 - 1:43 pm

Foo Fighters White Limo 2011

Sometimes I absolutely love Los Angeles. Where else can you catch a band as big as the Foo Fighters playing a legendary theater such as the Roxy on a Monday night? Lately if you are in the “know” and following the Foo tweets you can find yourself at one of their secret shows. Let me put this into some kind of perspective for you kids out there who maybe don’t get how big this is (that’s right my nephews…I’m glaring at you).

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