Home page features posters you can click on to hear clips
It’s been a couple of weeks since Dave Grohl told a Tasmanian crowd that the Foo Fighters had recorded new music (saying specifically, “We might have a whole new record of fucking songs that we just finished the other day,” according to Billboard), and now he’s got the pics and the clips to prove it. The band’s website features a shot of a superfan’s bedroom, plastered with posters and photos of the band. When you click a pic, you hear a snippet of a song, offering the first taste of new music since the group released But Here We Are in 2023.
The band previewed the new homepage with an Instagram reel featuring the caption, “Consider this an evaluation.” The music in the reel is a charging guitar line, Grohl growling, and women’s voices singing, “na-na-na.” The Foos’ homepage offers Grohl screaming, “Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?” over squelching guitar when you click the poster of him on the left. The soundtrack for the full-band pic features a staticky guitar line with melodic vocals that doo-doo-doo (and the studio shot sounds very similar). The poster below it finds Grohl repeating, “Turn the cameras on,” over a crescendo. The shot of drummer Ilan Rubin pairs a jangly guitar with snare bashing. There are four other posters for fans to discover for themselves.
Are these all different songs? Slices of the same song? Only time and Dave Grohl will tell.
In related news, drummer Josh Freese recently commented obliquely on his short stint as a Foo Fighter. “I enjoyed being around those guys,” he told Modern Drummer (via Classic Rock). “They were generous and good to me… and that’s what makes the whole thing even more of a mystery. I think I’m a pretty good read on people, and I did not see that coming. One day it was nothing but laughs, we’re on stage and Dave’s looking at me every night like, ‘You’re killing it, dude!!!’ And then it was just — over.” Two months after Freese’s departure, the band welcomed Rubin, né of Nine Inch Nails, into the group. The Foos’ upcoming 12th record will be the first since Rubin joined; Freese did not record on But Here We Are.
