Dave Grohl Talks New Foo Fighters Album With Q Magazine
We haven't heard from the Foo Fighters since your two Wembley Stadium shows in 2008. What have you been up to?
Dave Grohl: The last album [Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace] was such an experience for this band because we finally got to the place where we were playing stadiums and headlining festivals all over the world. There was a demand for the band that we'd never seen before and truly never expected. When we played those gigs at Wembley, as we said goodnight, I looked out and I thought, "I can't imagine that it can get any bigger or better than this." So I felt like it was time to step away from it. Not necessarily retreat, but just to back away. Because something that good, you don't want it to burn out.
You're recording the new Foo Fighters album with Nevermind producer Butch Vig...
Y'know, going back to make an album with a producer you've worked with before is not unlike going back and fucking a girlfriend you had 20 years ago. It can either be really good or a total fucking disaster. But it was perfectly natural and totally comfortable and he's the same person he was 20 years ago. He wears cologne now. I think that's the only difference.
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The 20 min. long video for the new single "Hurricane" by 30 Seconds To Mars is apparently too graphic to be broadcasted on TV. Jared Leto posted a letter from the censors on his blog. The description of the video definitely sounds...ummmm...interesting. Here's Leto's blog post:
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Americans tend to associate “modern slavery” with illiterate girls in India or Cambodia. Yet there I was the other day, interviewing a college graduate who says she spent three years terrorized by pimps in a brothel in Midtown Manhattan.
Those who think that commercial sex in this country is invariably voluntary — and especially men who pay for sex — should listen to her story. The men buying her services all mistakenly assumed that she was working of her own volition, she says.
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ON Wednesday, Kim Kardashian is going to die a little. So is her sister, Khloé, not to mention Lady Gaga, David LaChapelle, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Serena Williams and Elijah Wood.
That day is World AIDS Day, and each of these people (as well as a host of others - the list keeps growing) will sacrifice his or her own digital life. By which these celebrities mean they will stop communicating via Twitter and Facebook. They will not be resuscitated, they say, until their fans donate $1 million.
"Dry your eyes, everybody," Ryan Seacrest, the "American Idol" host and another participant in this cyberstunt, says in a videotaped "Last Tweet and Testament" that will be posted on his Facebook profile - and appended to a final post on Twitter - sometime after midnight on Tuesday night. "I don't plan to be dead for too long." He adds, "Please buy back my life."
"Come on, y'all," the actress Jennifer Hudson says in a similar videotaped plea. "Buy my life back. Go on a shopping spree and buy as much of it as you can."
It's all part of the latest gambit by ...