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Queens Of The Stone Age (With Dave Grohl) Line Up Tour

While their new album remains months away, Queens of the Stone Age are preparing to hit the highway to test drive some new material, and they're taking Dave Grohl along for the ride.

A month after their performance at this weekend's Coachella Festival, the Queens will use the roadwork that begins May 27 in Atlanta to rouse anticipation for their third album, Songs for the Deaf, due in mid-July. Dave Grohl, who has put off finishing the fourth Foo Fighters opus to tour with Queens, rounds out a lineup that also includes singer Josh Homme, bassist Nick Oliveri and guitarist Mark Lanegan, according to an Interscope spokesperson.

The Queens are also scheduled to hit the road following these dates, with opening band ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead in tow, though an itinerary has yet to be solidified.

Queens of the Stone Age tour dates, according to Interscope Records:

• 5/27 - Atlanta, GA @ Cotton Club
• 5/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
• 5/30 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
• 6/1 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
• 6/2 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 6/5 - Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
• 6/6 - Chicago, IL @ Metro/Smart Bar
• 6/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
• 6/9 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
• 6/12 - Vancouver, BC @ Richard's on Richards
• 6/14 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan

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Though he’s drumming on their new record, Dave Grohl told New York’s 101.1 WCBS-FM that he won’t be touring with Queens of the Stone Age when they hit the road behind the upcoming album. But Them Crooked Vultures, his group with QOTSA leader Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones , may tour again. “It was one of the highlights of my life when John Paul Jones said, ‘Now I’ve been in two great bands.’ That was a huge deal for me!” said Grohl. “We’ve talked about it, I know that someday we’ll get back together and do stuff, because we love playing with each other.”

Trent Reznor and former bassist Nick Oliveri are also contributing to the forthcoming Queens of the Stone Age record.

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Queens of the Stone Age Enlist Dave Grohl, Billy Gibbons for New Album

An upcoming Queens of the Stone Age album will contain contributions from both Foo Fighters '  Dave Grohl and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons . The latter musician said as much at France's Hellfest this past weekend, where his Southern rock band were playing June 22 on a bill that included Tool, Def Leppard and KISS.

Grohl previously recorded with Queens of the Stone Age on 2002's  Songs for the Deaf , at a time when the former Nirvana drummer took a break from his main act to reacquaint himself with the drum kit. On the eventual follow-up to QOTSA's 2017 effort Villains , it looks like the Foo Fighter may return to the Josh Homme -led act.

"Just one month ago I was making a record with Queens of the Stone Age," Gibbons laid out to eonmusic . "And Dave Grohl was also taking part and he decided to have a big barbecue. So there was this interesting gathering. So, we spent one hour telling stories, great stories remembering these lovely guys."

Gibbons himself has a history with Queens of the Stone Age, appearing on  Lullabies to Paralyze single “Burn the Witch.” (In a 2013 interview with SPIN , Homme said "people didn't pick up on" the meaning of the song.)

But that wasn't the the only surprise at Hellfest. During the previous day (June 21) at the annual festival in Clisson, France, Danish rockers  King Diamond premiered their first new song since 2007 , "Masquerade of Madness."

ZZ Top's 50th anniversary collection Goin' 50 is being released now . Queens leader Josh Homme recently hinted at a revival of the Desert Sessions , the musician's long-running collaborative album series.

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Queens of the Stone Age engineer Eric Valentine on how Dave Grohl recorded drums on No One Knows: "It did sound ridiculous before we replaced the cymbal samples with the real ones"

As Queens Of The Stone Age return to the fray, we take a look at the making of a stone-cold drum classic

In 2002, frustrated with progress on sessions for Foo Fighters ' fourth album, One By One, Dave Grohl took a call from his old friend, Josh Homme, accompanied by an invitation to record drums on Queens of the Stone Age 's upcoming album.

Grohl undertook the incredible feat of recording the album in two passes - first to capture the drum shells, and then again verbatim to record the cymbals

Grohl and Foo Fighters took a temporary hiatus - the rest of the band took time to focus on side-projects - while Grohl embarked on the Queens of the Stone Age recording sessions, along with his then-biggest tour as a drummer since Nirvana 's untimely end eight years earlier.

The resulting album is nothing short of a masterpiece. Homme's soundtrack to a conceptual drive from LA to Joshua Tree is interspersed with faux radio broadcasts, and most importantly, 14 tracks of unfiltered brilliance. 

It remains high on any Grohl fan's list of his classic drum moments (although previous QOTSA drummer Gene Trautman plays on the opening track), displaying a different dimension to his playing while retaining the classic Grohl power, shotgun snare rolls and flams and song-based composition of his parts. 

From the 5/4 jerk of the Mark Lanegan-fronted Hanging Tree to the hypnotic eighth-note push of Go With The Flow to Grohl's partial lifting of Black Flag's Slip it In for the now-iconic drum intro on Song For The Dead (also sung by Lanegan), there's track-after-track for drummers to sink their teeth into.

But the biggest hook comes from the swinging stomp of No One Knows - Grohl accenting the guitar line between the pounding snare and barking open hi-hats. The chorus erupts with Grohl's 16th-note triplet flurries, even throwing in some tricky straight five-stroke rolls against the swung pulse of the song.

20-years on, it's well-known that Grohl undertook the incredible feat of recording the album in two passes as a production choice - first to capture the drum shells, and then again, playing verbatim in order to record the cymbals and giving greater flexibility when it came to the mixing stage. 

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What we end up with is an almost bone-dry drum sound with zero bleed between the metal and mylar. The kick is huge and thumpy, the snare is dead and thick, and the low-tuned toms bite through with attack while blooming with huge dub-like round low end. Meanwhile, the cymbals sparkle on top of the mix without ever getting in the way. No wonder it's considered a classic drum sound.

In this archive interview, Songs For The Deaf engineer Eric Valentine talks about working with the drum icon, specifically highlighting the challenges they faced recording the drums and cymbals separately.

Eric Valentine on how Dave Grohl recorded the drums for No One Knows

Was there a particular magic ingredient when recording 'No One Knows'?

"Obviously, like any amazing recording, it's primarily the room and the drummer. One of the standout things for me about [Dave] is how he mimics the length of the guitar notes with the hi-hat open/closed pressure. 

The most striking about Dave Grohl's playing is how consistently he hits the drums Eric Valentine

"The thing that is most striking about Dave Grohl's playing is how consistently he hits the drums. He plays very hard, which in a lot of cases does not necessarily result in the best drum sound. Because Grohl hits so consistently it is much easier to accommodate the really hard playing. I have heard people speculate that there are samples layered in with the drum recording. There are definitely no samples. Grohl just plays with inhuman consistency."

Where exactly were the drums recorded for the track?

"The drums were recorded in a small isolation booth. It was roughly 8'x12' but not exactly a rectangular shape and the ceiling was quite tall (16'). It was very dead acoustically. It has curtains and cork on the walls and carpet on the floor. The idea was to have a room sound that still sounded very tight, focused, punchy and kind of claustrophobic. 

"I used a pair of Sony C37A microphones for room mics. They were positioned up high - maybe about 12' up. I would just move them around in the room until they both sounded balanced between the kick and the snare and were roughly equal distances from the snare drum."

The drums were recorded separately to the cymbals. How did you practically go about this?

"QOTSA had done it on the previous record and wanted to try that approach again. The advantage of doing this is that it allows a lot more flexibility in how you can mic the drums. This time we actually set-up electronic cymbal pads for Dave to play when doing the initial pass when all of the drums were recorded. 

Dave Grohl is an extraordinarily positive guy with a seemingly endless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm for playing drums Eric Valentine

"Having cymbal pads to hit made it easier for Dave to play the way he normally would and allowed all of us to hear some sort of cymbal sound while everyone was playing. It did sound pretty ridiculous before we replaced the cymbal samples with the real ones.

"After all of the drums were recorded for all of the songs, we set up to record just the cymbals. We set up a dummy snare and toms that were padded to be as quiet as possible for him to hit while playing the cymbals. This way he could simply replay the same drum parts and only have the cymbals be captured by the mics. Overdubbing the cymbals separately is very difficult. 

Dave Grohl is an extraordinarily positive guy with a seemingly endless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm for playing drums. Even he at one point started to get frustrated with overdubbing the cymbals on 10-plus songs. He got through it and obviously did a great job.

"There is the trade-off [with this method]. You can do some cool miking stuff when the cymbals are separated, but you risk having the cymbal sound disconnected from the overall drum performance both sonically and with the feel. I have not chosen to do the totally separate cymbal thing again. I don't think the trade-off is worth it."

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | dave grohl, st. vincent and bill burr deliver fun at josh homme & friends benefit.

Josh Homme repeatedly promised the audience that t he benefit concert he hosted at the Belasco in Los Angeles on Wednesday would be “a night of unexpected things.”

And, of course, the frontman and co-founder of Queens of the Stone Age would know that given all the guests were all his friends, including musicians Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters , Beck , and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers , as well as comedians Sarah Silverman and Bill Burr.

But even the guy who knew the run of the show wasn’t prepared for the surprise Grohl had planned: an original song he’d written for and about Homme, which left Homme in tears at its finish.

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl sings a new song he wrote for Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age at a benefit concert for Homme’s Sweet Stuff Foundation at the Belasco in Los Angles on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Andreas Neumann)

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, singing in the audience, during a benefit concert for Homme’s Sweet Stuff Foundation at the Belasco in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Andreas Neumann)

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, left, with Beck, right on stage at a benefit concert for Homme’s Sweet Stuff Foundation at the Belasco in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Andreas Neumann)

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, left, and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers battle on the drums at Josh Homme & Friends, a benefit for the Sweet Stuff Foundation founded by Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, which was held at the Belasco in Los Angles on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Andreas Neumann)

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on stage at a benefit concert for Homme’s Sweet Stuff Foundation at the Belasco in Los Angles on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Photo by Andreas Neumann)

“My first idea that I had, I was like, you know what, this (stuff) is funny,” Grohl said at the benefit for Sweet Stuff, the foundation Homme and his family started a decade ago to help musicians and recording industry people who’d fallen on hard times. “I’m gonna come out and I’m going do a (bleepin’) Doja Cat song.

“And I spent (bleepin’) days trying to learn that, ‘Yeah, (bleep), I said what I said,’” Grohl continued, singing a snippet of “Paint The Town Red” as the audience roared. “There are so many lyrics to that song!”

Grohl said he woke up in the middle of the night, panicked about his choice. “I didn’t want to roll out ‘Everlong’ for the 1000th time,” he said, adding that things got so bad he found himself at 3 a.m. looking at a Spotify playlist titled Great Acoustic Covers.

Finally, he decided to do something “that’s maybe considered really, really uncool – I wrote a song that’s really earnest about my friend, Josh,” Grohl said. “We’re all here for this one big reason, but I don’t know that we’d all be here if it weren’t for that guy.

“So I thought I’m going to write a song about him and embarrass him in front of all his friends by actually singing about how much I (bleepin’) love you, man,” Grohl finished to more cheers from the audience as Homme watched from the side of the stage.

“If I’m free and you’ve got big plans. Take it from me, I’ll take that chance,” Grohl sang in the chorus of his heartfelt song of a friendship that goes back decades. “Don’t need a reason, I understand. Whatever you need, I’ve got you, man.”

Homme, wiping his eyes as he walked back on stage at the finish, gave Grohl a huge hug, saying, “He always does that (stuff) to me,” as Grohl grinned.

Josh Homme and Friends was, as Homme reminded the crowd, a thank you to them for selling out the show in five minutes and raising $250,000 for Sweet Stuff.

And despite the emotional moment that hit Homme via Grohl’s song, the two hours it ran was otherwise a fun and funny party. Homme served as an entertaining tuxedo-clad emcee, bantering with the audience and performers throughout the night.

“I want make this night something that could never happen,” he said at one point, and for the most art, the performers made that happen, picking unexpected songs to cover, and combining on stage to form a unique set of entertainers.

Where else could you watch a magician – Justin Willman, creator of the Netflix series “Magic For Humans” open a rock show? Where else would the magician be followed by a hard rock band formed by 11- and 12-year-olds including Homme’s son Ryder on drums covering Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath?

On what other night would the Sweet Stuffers house band not only include fellow Queens of the Stone Age members Michael Shuman and Troy Van Leeuwen on bass and guitar, but also Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and tennis legend John McEnroe on guitar?

After the kids wrapped up Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” and Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” Jesse Hughes, a friend of Homme’s since high school in Palm Desert, and with him the cofounder of Eagles of Death Metal, arrived on stage as the first of a run of guest stars.

Like most of the acts that followed, Hughes and Homme pulled out an unexpected cover, the Stealers Wheel classic “Stuck In The Middle,” following that with the “Eagles of Death Metal” song “So Easy,” for which Homme played drums on and around Hughes – his body and guitar as well as the mic stand – as Hughes sang.

The Kills’ Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince followed with a pair of their songs, “New York” and “Baby Says,” before Homme returned with the house band to do Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line.”

Beck showed up next, performing a pair of rare, early songs, “Fume,” which he said he’d not played since 1994, and a solo acoustic version of “Hollow Log,” before Home and the Sweet Stuffers house band returned to cover Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze.”

Comedian Sarah Silverman popped for a brief set of mostly unprintable jokes with Annie Clark, the singer-guitarist known as St. Vincent, following her with a lovely reinterpretation of the Patsy Cline classic, “Crazy.”

Homme, attempting to introduce comedian Bill Burr, got upstaged by Grohl and Chad Smith doing a comic drum battle behind him. We’ll call the battle a tie, with Smith the clear winner of the subcategory of bouncing stick high off your drum and then catching it on its return to earth.

Burr actually was there primarily to play drums with singer Patty Smyth, who sang a pair of Go-Go’s songs – “Our Lips Are Sealed,” for which Ava McEnroe, Smyth’s daughter with husband John McEnroe, also sang, and then “We Got The Beat.

After Grohl made Homme cry, Chad Smith joined the Sweet Stuffers for a cover of the Zombies’ “Time of the Season,” which included a comedy bit where Smith interrupted the vibe with a hard rock drum solo.

Homme looks like a tough rock-and-roller, but the benefit show demonstrated a soft heart inside the tuxedo coat. Not just in the tears that Grohl’s song delivered, but in the sweetness with which he described the work that Sweet Stuff does as he invited all his friends and guests back on stage for the finale, singing the Beatle’s “Hey Jude” as a reminder that together you really can make it better.

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DAVE GROHL Discusses New QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Album

Dave Grohl ( FOO FIGHTERS , NIRVANA , THEM CROOKED VULTURES ) spoke to BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe about QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 's upcoming sixth studio album, for which he recently recorded the drums.

"With QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE , like, there were no boundaries with that band, there were no limits with them," he explained. "It was like if you did something insane, you'd do more, if you did something that seemed too ridiculous — and honestly the new QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE record, I'm playing drums on that, and I'll do something so completely ridiculous, I'll just, like, 'There's no way that that Josh [ Homme , QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE mainman] is going to let me do that,' and he'll say, 'Do that for forty-five seconds, over and over again, that's become, like, part of the song, that is a big part of the song,' and that's the way they work."

Speaking about QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 's general vibe, Grohl added: "When you walk into a festival backstage with QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE , it’s like, the record stops. People stop and they stare, and it’s like, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE are, without question, the baddest rock and roll band in the world! And they still are, and when 'Songs For The Deaf' , when that came out, it blew people's minds, man, for real."

Grohl stepped in to lay down the drums tracks on the new QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE record, which is expected in early 2013, following the departure of Joey Castillo .

Grohl previously played drums on QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 's 2002 album "Songs For The Deaf" . He also teamed with Homme and LED ZEPPELIN bassist John Paul Jones for the THEM CROOKED VULTURES project.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE will make its first-ever appearance at the U.K.'s Download festival next summer. The event will take place June 14-16, 2013 at Donington Park.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 's fifth album, "Era Vulgaris" , came out in June 2007 and entered the Billboard chart at No. 14.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE commemorated the reissue of its classic 1998 debut with a limited series of intimate shows at which the band played the record in its entirety, plus B-sides and other rarities and hits from the early QUEENS catalog up to the present.

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Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has faced many demons since the release of the 2017 album “Villains”: cancer, divorce, rehab and court battles. And the new Queens record, the just-released “ In Times New Roman… ,” definitely adds weight to the band’s woozy, bluesy rock — a dour energy far removed from the dancier sound conjured by producer Mark Ronson on “Villains.”

Backing Homme on “Roman” and the tour are longtime guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, who has been in the group since 2002, bassist Michael Shuman and keyboard player Dean Fertita, who both joined in 2007, and ex-Mars Volta drumming phenom Jon Theodore. Part of the appeal of QOTSA’s music is their ability to hold a tight grip on the rhythm of their stomping guitar anthems, and the band’s playing matches up powerfully with Theodore’s work behind the kit. And being the drummer in this band is no easy feat.

Ever since Homme’s good friend Dave Grohl filled in as the drummer on QOTSA’s signature 2002 album “Songs for the Deaf,” he inadvertently set expectations sky-high for the role. After all, Grohl’s highest-profile return to the kit since Nirvana and early Foo Fighters albums was explosive, and his performances on tracks like “A Song for the Dead” are regularly performed by drummers on TikTok to prove their chops.

Theodore is the second post-Grohl drummer in the band, and while his style with the proggy Mars Volta was maximalist, he lives in the pocket for Homme’s more straightforward songwriting, harnessing the power and drive to leave even the drunkest bro in the crowd dancing at Forest Hills Stadium.

Beyond new material, QOTSA filled their setlist with songs from “Deaf,” their 2013 fan-favorite “…Like Clockwork” and a handful of other hits. The group blazed through this well-worn material, keeping the groove rolling along on rock chart risers like “No One Knows,” “Little Sister” and “The Way You Used to Do” and deeper cuts like “If I Had a Tail” and the psychedelic “Better Living Through Chemistry.”

Beyond their musicianship, the band’s stage antics created as much as to look at as the dramatic lighting rigs. For the first stretch, the guys were all business, headbanging and throwing guitars around, perfecting rock star swagger. But as their set went on they loosened up, allowing for some great squealing guitar solos, crowd participation like in an extended “Make It Wit Chu,” and plenty of room for Homme’s genial stage banter, regularly encouraging the audience to dance and screw in equal measure.

At this point in his career, Homme’s biggest issue playing live is his catalogue is too consistent and deep. The hits must be played, but fans can only dream of a sweaty club night crammed with old songs and B-sides. But as one of the few bands still carrying the torch of hard-living rock ‘n’ roll, it’s hard to imagine asking any more from Queens of the Stone Age.

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Dave Grohl's campaign to supplant James Brown as the hardest working man in showbusiness has stepped up a gear with the news that he is to join Queens of the Stone Age . Again.

Queens' leader, Josh Homme, told Radio 1's Zane Lowe that the Foo Fighters frontman has replaced Joey Castillo on the band's forthcoming album, their sixth. Apparent proof came with a picture on the band's Facebook page , showing the name "Dave" next to the drum faders on a studio mixing desk. It's not known if Grohl will be joining them for their appearance at next summer's Download festival at Donington Park.

Grohl was briefly a Queen a decade ago, when he drummed on the band's 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Though he played a small number of shows with the band, he didn't become a full member and embark on the tour in support of the record. He can, though, be seen in the video for the album's hit single No One Knows . He and Homme also worked together with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones in Them Crooked Vultures .

Grohl has previously been a member of Scream and Nirvana, as well as taking a bit-part role with other acts including Killing Joke, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, Juliette and the Licks, David Bowie, Mike Watt, Buzz Osborne, the Prodigy, Slash, Cage the Elephant, and his own metal project, Probot.

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Dave Grohl has lifted the lid on his recording sessions with Queens Of The Stone Age for the first time since revealing he has rejoined the band.

“With Queens of the Stone Age, like, there were no boundaries with that band, there were no limits with them, it was like if you did something insane, you’d do more, if you did something that seemed too ridiculous– and honestly the new Queens of the Stone Age record, I’m playing drums on that, and I’ll do something so completely ridiculous, I’ll just, like, ‘There’s no way that that Josh isn’t going to let me do that,’ and he’ll say, ‘Do that for forty-five seconds, over and over again, that’s become, like, part of the song, that is a big part of the song,’ and that’s the way they work,” Grohl said.

Elaborating on the general atmosphere that surrounds Queens Of The Stone Age, Grohl added: “When you walk into a festival backstage with Queens of the Stone Age, it’s like, the record stops. People stop and they stare, and it’s like, Queens of the Stone Age are, without question, the baddest rock and roll band in the world! And they still are, and when ‘Songs For The Deaf’, when that came out, it blew people’s minds, man, for real.”

Dave Grohl is filling in for Joey Castillo, who has left the band according to signer Josh Homme, who broke the news earlier this month (November 6) on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show. The band also posted a picture on their Facebook page, showing Grohl’s name on the mixing desk – pictured. Speaking to Zane Lowe, Homme said: “[Grohl] and I have this wonderful musical relationship which we don’t have with other people. It’s a very cool and comfortable position.” http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/?bctid=741298277001

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Queens of the Stone Age ‘s follow-up to 2007’s “Era Vulgaris” will feature Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on drums, the band has confirmed.

According to Pitchfork , band mastermind Josh Homme announced on BBC Radio 1 on Tuesday (Nov. 6) that drummer Joey Castillo was no longer with the band (which has long featured a revolving cast of contributors, aside from Homme), and that Grohl was back on board with QOTSA. The Foos frontman and former Nirvana drummer previously sat behind the kit for the band’s 2002 breakout “Songs for the Deaf,” which featured the hit single “No One Knows” and has sold 1.1 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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To spread the news to all QOTSA fans, the band posted a photo on Twitter on Tuesday of a soundboard that reads “J HO – Guitar” and “Dave – Drums.”

Last month, Grohl confirmed that Foo Fighters was officially taking a break, following last year’s Grammy-winning “Wasting Light” and an extensive tour supporting the album. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think Foo Fighters would make it this far… There were times when I wanted to give up. But I can’t give up this band. And I never will,” he wrote in a letter to fans.

Queens of the Stone Age are slated to perform at the Download Festival in the U.K. next June, but the band’s first full-length in over five years could come before then. When asked by a fan on Twitter if a new QOTSA album would be released before Download Fest, the group’s Twitter account responded, “good plan.”

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Dave Grohl Joining Queens Of The Stone Age On New Album

Dave Grohl likes to get into some weird stuff, including signing on for episodes of Top Chef and a cameo in The Muppets . Way back in 2002, Grohl even joined his buddy Josh Homme’s band, Queens of the Stone Age, to play drums on the album Songs for the Deaf . Now, it seems Grohl will be joining Queens of the Stone Age for a second album stint.

Homme confirmed the news earlier this week, also noting that Grohl is able to take the position due to drummer Joey Castillo leaving the band (it comes off like this was the drummer’s decision). The news was confirmed via an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe and was later reported by BBC News . What Homme revealed was that Grohl will be a part of the Queens of the Stone Age’s upcoming sixth album. What he did not reveal is whether or not Grohl will go on tour with the band after the album is completed.

Luckily, album number 6 is close to being completed, so it shouldn’t be too long before we learn whether this tour de force will move on into a tour together. The good (well, kind of bad) news is that Grohl’s band, The Foo Fighters, is currently taking some time off after spending a whopping 18 months promoting the 2011 album, Wasting Light . So, right now, Grohl has nothing but time on his plate. I’m not sure that means he’ll want to spend it touring, though.

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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl appeared to reveal that Josh Homme fired former Queens of the Stone Age drummer Gene Trautmann in 2001, leading to Grohl briefly joining the band. Alternative Nation transcribed Grohl’s remarks from The Bill Simmons Podcast. Dave Grohl recently leaked a painful Gavin Rossdale divorce claim.

“The thing that got weird with us was I had, we were making a record and it just wasn’t working out, our fourth record. It just didn’t sound good, it didn’t feel good, we weren’t into it. In the meantime, my buddy Josh from Queens of the Stone Age had just bailed his drummer.

He said, ‘Dude, I’ve got two weeks. Could you just come do the drums on my record?’ They were like my favorite band, they were amazing. We’re good friends, we’ve known each other for 30 years, a long time. I thought, ‘Yes! I get to play on a Queens of the Stone Age record.’ So we go on to record with Queens, and it was kind of the opposite of what we were doing.

What we were doing was, ‘Alright, let’s just put this bass down.’ The Queens of the Stone Age thing was this collective lightning bolt, ‘Let’s do this!’ Tracking live, and you’re in the same room, face to face, it was f***ing mean and hungry. It was great. So I go do that, and it is f***ing bad ass, I was like this is good.”

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"You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins

Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

Jon Davison was 10 years old when a family from Fort Worth, Texas moved into his neighbourhood in Laguna Beach, Orange County in 1981. The new arrivals had a kid a year younger than him, with a stack of blond hair and a big toothy smile. The kid’s name was Taylor. Taylor Hawkins. 

The two youngsters quickly became glued at the hip. Star Wars was their first obsession, but that was soon forgotten about when Taylor excitedly called his buddy one day to tell him about a new record he’d got called The Game , by a band named Queen . 

“I can remember it so distinctly,” Davison told Classic Rock in 2022. “He was very much taken by the drummer, Roger Taylor . Taylor would go on about how he admired him because he wasn’t just a drummer, he was a singing, songwriting drummer. It’s funny, Taylor actually looked like a mini Roger Taylor at that age, too.” 

Music quickly overtook Darth Vader as the boys’ passion. Taylor’s parents bought their son a drum kit and, with Davison on guitar and bass, the pair would jam away in the Hawkins family’s garage. 

“Eventually he discovered Rush ,” said Davison. “ Neil Peart was a big inspiration for him. That’s when he really took off as a drummer.” 

That childhood friendship continued through their teenage years and beyond. They played together in high-school bands, and a few more grown-up groups, before their paths diverged. Jon Davison moved to Seattle and joined cult psychedelic rockers Sky Cries Mary as bassist before eventually replacing Jon Anderson as the singer in prog giants Yes . And Taylor Hawkins? He got a job playing with Alanis Morissette, which led to the gig of his life: drumming for Foo Fighters . 

Hawkins was in Bogata, Columbia with Foo Fighters on March 25, 2022, in his hotel room, when he reportedly began suffering chest pains. Paramedics arrived to find him unresponsive. They performed CPR, but Hawkins was declared dead at the scene. He was 50. 

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“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the band said in a statement. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us for ever.” 

Speaking to Classic Rock 10 days after Hawkins’s death, Jon Davison was still processing the loss of his lifelong friend. 

“We would call each other and speak at least once a week, just to touch base and wish each other well with our adventures,” he said. “We spoke just before he went to South America. I was finishing a tour with [former Moody Blues frontman] John Lodge, and he was really excited about me doing that. And now he’s gone. It’s a total shock.”

Shock was just one of the reactions to the news of Hawkins’s death . There was sadness and grief too, from those who knew him and those who didn’t. But there was also an outpouring of love and admiration from the many people he’d worked with across his fabulous career. 

“Shocked n’ saddened to hear of the passing of Taylor Hawkins,” Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose tweeted. “He was a really great guy, drummer n’ family man. Was always great to see him.” 

“He was such an incredibly positive source of music, energy and love, and a true artist to his very core… there are simply no words to adequately express just how much he will be missed by all,” said Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. 

“Not only was he a great drummer, but his personality was big and shiny and will be sorely missed by all who were lucky to live and work alongside him,” wrote Paul McCartney, who played drums on the Foo Fighters’ 2017 track Sunday Rain , and later inducted the band into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. 

Tributes poured in from numerous other musicians: Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, Joan Jett , Elton John , Slash, Liam Gallagher, Ozzy Osbourne , Alice Cooper , Blink 182’s Travis Barker, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss … They all said the same thing: Taylor Hawkins was a tremendous musician and a great human being.

“Taylor was not only very approachable, and had a great heart, but he was such a fan of music before anything else,” said Luke Spiller, singer with The Struts. “People recognised that in him, which is why he made such amazing connections, and why there was absolute love for him.” 

Spiller met Hawkins in 2016, when the drummer’s covers band Chevy Metal played alongside The Struts at a festival in Napa, California. Hawkins invited Spiller on stage during Chevy Metal’s set to sing a couple of Queen songs. 

“That was a glimpse of what was to come, because we went on to open for them and going up to do Under Pressure became a thing every night,” said Spiller. (Getting his friends up on stage to duet on Under Pressure was a very Taylor Hawkins thing to do. He did the same with Jon Davison at a Foo Fighters gig in Dublin in 2019.) 

It was Hawkins who encouraged Spiller to move to Los Angeles from the UK in 2019. “You meet a lot of people in this industry who just don’t give a fuck about lending anyone a hand, and he was the complete opposite,” he said. “He became a little bit of a mentor to me.”

Of all the musicians Hawkins befriended over the years, Queen were at the top of the pile. Brian May got to know him after Hawkins and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear presented May and Roger Taylor with a Kerrang! Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

“I met him very briefly when he was touring with Alanis Morrissette, and he said he was a massive Queen fan,” May told Classic Rock in February 2022, just a month before the drummer’s death. “But I realised those two guys had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Queen.” 

Queen had been Hawkins’s favourite band ever since he’d picked up The Game as a kid. They were the first band he’d ever seen live, too, on the Hot Space tour in 1982. 

“Roger Taylor, he was the guy,” Hawkins told Classic Rock in 2021. “I thought: ‘If I could be a drummer in a band, that’s the way I’d be. I’d write songs once in a while, I’d sing background vocals, just be a presence behind the drums.’” 

Queen were Hawkins’s first big influence, but he also loved The Police’s Stewart Copeland and Rush’s Neil Peart – musicians who turned drumming into an art form – as well as the innovative tribal rhythms of Siouxsie And The Banshees drummer Budgie. 

“That was my dream, to get where they got and walk where those giants walked,” Hawkins told us. “You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it. Somehow, with a little bit of bullshitting and fast talking, I managed to find my way in.” 

He did, although it took a little while. Hawkins’s first shot at fame came alongside Jon Davison in the band Sylvia, before he joined singer Sass Jordan’s band as touring drummer in the early 1990s. It was with Jordan that he first visited the UK, playing at the tiny Underworld in London. And it was via Jordan that he was introduced to former child star-turned-adult singer Alanis Morissette, who had just recorded her breakout album Jagged Little Pill . 

“So she hired me as a drummer, and kind of put me in charge of getting the band together,” Hawkins told Classic Rock in 2019. “She went off to do a bunch of press, then she came back and it just never stopped.”

Morissette’s success brought Hawkins into the orbit of the Foo Fighters. He first met Dave Grohl at a KROQ Christmas show in LA in 1995, where both acts were on the bill. 

“I was really nervous to go talk to him, cos I thought he was super-cool and I’m a dork,” Hawkins told us. “But he saw me walk past and said: ‘Dude, get over here!’” That encounter sowed the seeds of a friendship and working relationship that would last for the next 26 years. 

Hawkins joined Foo Fighters in 1997, replacing original drummer William Goldsmith. It wasn’t easy at first. Despite his own talents, Hawkins was in awe of Grohl as a drummer, a songwriter and a leader – something he admitted never really went away. 

“I always say that recording a drum track for the Foo Fighters takes a week off my life every time,” he told Classic Rock in 2019. “You’ve got this guy [Grohl] in the control room, and he’s trying to be nice, and he is nice, but he also knows what he wants.” 

Despite his insecurities, Hawkins was absolutely integral to Foo Fighters, musically and personality-wise. A stellar drummer, exuberant presence and unashamed music geek, he could have been Dave Grohl’s blonder younger brother. When Hawkins got a message from Axl Rose’s management around 1999, asking if he wanted to leave Foo Fighters to join Guns N’ Roses, he asked his idol-turned-friend Roger Taylor of Queen for advice. 

“Stick with Dave Grohl,” came the reply. “There’s something between you guys that might not be there with Axl Rose.” 

That much was true. Grohl himself described Hawkins as “my spirit animal and my best friend”. When Hawkins nearly died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, Grohl sat by his bedside in the hospital. 

There were shaky moments. Grohl seriously considered folding Foo Fighters in the early 2000s after a stint playing in Queens Of The Stone Age . “I’d basically put in my walking papers,” Hawkins told Classic Rock of that period. “I told Dave: ‘I’m outta here, I’ll sell my house, maybe I could get my job back with Alanis or deliver pizza or sell weed.’” 

Of course, the Foo Fighters didn’t split, and Hawkins didn’t end up selling weed. Instead he juggled his Foo Fighters duties in the 2000s and 2010s with an impressive array of collaborations and guest spots, appearing with artists ranging from former Jane’s Addiction man Perry Farrell and prog-metallers Coheed And Cambria to Miley Cyrus and Elton John . 

He had his own extra-curricular projects too, fronting Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders (who released three albums between 2006 and 2019) and Birds Of Satan (who put out one fairly unhinged album in 2016). As he put it to us in 2019: “There’s so much more in my head than just being the drummer in the Foo Fighters.”

Taylor Hawkins accumulated friends just as easily as Dave Grohl. Many of them had started out as idols, including Rush’s Neil Peart, for whom Hawkins stepped in when he and Grohl joined Rush on stage to play part of 2112 at the Canadian trio’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013. 

Another was The Police’s Stewart Copeland, who offered his own fond tribute following Hawkins’s death. “He was always Mister Fanboy, but that was part of his shtick,” Copeland wrote on Rolling Stone ’s website. “One of his social tricks was that whenever we were hanging out, he’d select a Police T-shirt from his extensive collection. When he hung out with Neil, he’d have his Rush T-shirt on. He was fifty years old going on eight.” 

Hawkins never forgot his own friends either. He’d got to know Yes bassist Chris Squire well, and when Squire mentioned that his band were looking for a new singer, Hawkins had just the person to fit the bill: his old buddy Jon Davison. 

“Taylor was instrumental in getting me the gig with Yes,” said Davison. “I’d decided to pursue lead vocals, and he pushed Chris to listen to what I was doing when they needed a new singer. It’s been ten years now, and I’m eternally grateful to Taylor for being so instrumental in that. He helped give me a second chance at a musical career after I thought it was all behind me.” 

The two friends never lost contact, even after Davison moved out of LA. They’d get together and play whenever they could. The Yes singer appeared on the Coattail Riders’ 2019 album Get The Money , an all-star affair that also featured Joe Walsh, Chrissie Hynde, country star LeAnn Rimes and, naturally, Roger Taylor and Dave Grohl. Hawkins and Davison also got together to jam with Chris Squire a couple of years before the Yes bassist’s death in 2015. 

“We did some odds and ends that we planned to finalise eventually,” said Davison. “We never did vocals, but we did record it. I hope it will come out in some form one day, as a tribute.” According to Davison, there’s “some unreleased Coattail Riders stuff that I play bass on and sing on”. Similarly, The Struts’ Luke Spiller is sitting on a song of his own he worked on with Hawkins. 

“I was trying to write a song for the James Bond film that was coming out [ No Time To Die ],” said Spiller. “I said to Taylor: ‘I’ve got this song, it could use some drums and pots and pans on it.’ He said: ‘Come on over.’ And he cut a brilliant drum take on it. I listened to it this morning and it made me smile. I felt so lucky to have him play some kickass drums on something I wrote. I just felt so lucky to have known him.”

For a time, it was uncertain how Taylor Hawkins’s death would affect the Foo Fighters' future. Dave Grohl – a man who had already lost one bandmate, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, at a tragically young age – admitted that he nearly quit music after Hawkins’s overdose in 2000. But in late 2022 the band announced their return to the stage , and tentatively filled the summer calendar with festival appearances. Since then there's been an album, But Here We Are , and the confirmation of Josh Freese's place behind the drum kit, replacing the irreplaceable. 

Jon Davison understands their loss better than anyone. “I loved listening to his amazing stories of being in this revered rock band, and I think he found solace in speaking to me,” he said. “I got a sense that I was a kind of anchor, that our friendship was a symbol of simpler times, and something constant in his turbulent world. Every time we finished our conversations, we’d say to each other: ‘I love you.’ And those were his last words to me. I can’t really ask for anything more, all things considered.”

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Kurt Cobain's Death: Looking Back at the Rock Icon's Final Days and Legacy, 30 Years Later

Kurt Cobain died at his home in Seattle on April 5, 1994, at the age of 27

Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Us Weekly, Brides and MTV News.

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It has been three decades since the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain , but the musical legacy he left behind has only grown stronger.

The musician, who struggled with depression, a debilitating and unexplained stomach ailment and substance abuse issues, died by suicide on April 5, 1994. He was 27 years old at the time of his death and was survived by his wife, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love , and his then-1-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain .

“Kurt had ... inhuman levels of professional pressure, chronic and severe physical pain and a heroin addiction that he just couldn’t seem to shake (or didn’t want to),” Nirvana biographer and Cobain pal Michael Azerrad wrote in an article for The New Yorker in 2021.

In the years since Cobain's death, his widow Love and daughter Frances have continued to pay tribute to the late singer, particularly on his birthday. On what would have been Cobain's 54th birthday in 2023, Love shared a black-and-white photo , taken by Mark Seliger, of her and the Nirvana artist, writing, "Happy birthday beautiful boy," along with a quote from the liner notes of Nirvana's 1992 compilation album  Incesticide .

On the 30th anniversary of his death, here's a look back at the rock icon's final days and the legacy he left behind.

How did Kurt Cobain die?

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Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head by a 20-gauge rifle.

Blood tests taken during the autopsy determined that Cobain also had heroin in his system when he died.

When did Kurt Cobain die?

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Cobain died on April 5, 1994, though his body wasn't found until three days later on April 8. An electrician named Gary Smith discovered Cobain’s lifeless body there when he arrived at the property to install a security system that Cobain had requested.

How did Kurt Cobain spend his final days?

The tragedy came on the heels of an extremely tumultuous month for the singer. Cobain was hospitalized while overseas in Rome after ingesting 50 or so Rohypnol pills and falling into a temporary coma on March 4. “There was a definite suicidal urge, to be gobbling and gobbling and gobbling,” Love later told Rolling Stone of the incident.

On March 18, Love was prompted to call the police on her husband, who had locked himself in a room with a gun and threatened to kill himself. Cobain was persuaded to seek help after his loved ones, including Love, staged an intervention. "I told him, 'You've got to be a good daddy. We've got to be good parents," Love told PEOPLE in 1994.

The singer checked into Exodus Recovery Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., on March 28 but left after 36 hours and supposedly retreated to a country house he and Love owned about 40 miles east of Seattle. Four days later, Cobain's mother Wendy O'Connor reported him missing to the police, but they were unable to locate him. Love also hired a private investigator to find her husband.

Where did Kurt Cobain die?

The Nirvana singer died in the greenhouse   above his garage in his Seattle home.

Cobain and Love had purchased the home three months before his death, according to CNN . After Cobain died, Love had the greenhouse demolished and eventually sold the home three years later for $2.9 million.

How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?

Cobain was 27 years old when he took his own life, the same age as fellow musicians Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin , Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse at the time of their deaths.

"Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," O'Connor said after her son's death, referencing the larger group of celebrities who have died at the age of 27.

What were Kurt Cobain’s last words?

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Cobain left behind a note written in a red ballpoint pen. In it, the artist expressed gratitude for his good fortune in life but said that he was unable to enjoy it.

According to Love, who spoke to Rolling Stone in December 1994, Cobain also left a separate letter for her and Frances that she kept private. “It’s kind of long. I put it in a safe-deposit box,” she said. “I might show it to Frances–maybe. It’s very  ... 'You know I love you, I love Frances, I’m so sorry. Please don’t follow me.' "

How did the public react to Kurt Cobain’s death?

The public response to Cobain’s death was enormous. The New York Times reported that fans began to assemble outside his home in Madrona, Seattle, in mourning as early as April 9, 1994.

Two days after his body was discovered, roughly 10,000 fans gathered in downtown Seattle for a memorial vigil.

What legacy did Kurt Cobain leave behind?

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Nirvana sold nearly 10 million copies of its sophomore album Nevermind ahead of the singer’s death, per The New York Times . More than breaking sales records, the group is widely credited with spearheading a cultural shift in music and fashion driven by grunge.

As the band's main songwriter, Cobain was a huge part of its success. Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl told Classic Rock Magazine in 2021: “The person who is responsible for those beautiful songs is no longer with us .”

Nirvana’s popularity only grew after Cobain’s death. In 2014, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2019, NME reported that the trio's single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” had become the second '90s music video to hit one billion views on YouTube behind Guns ‘N Roses’ “November Rain." The following year, Nevermind became the seventh album in history to spend 500 weeks on the Billboard 200, per Forbes .

Record sales also continued to climb: As of 2023, Nevermind had sold more than 30 copies, according to Rolling Stone .

In addition to his musical legacy, Cobain was also a father to daughter Frances , who was just 1 year old when the singer died by suicide.

Frances, who is an artist in her own right, has posted snippets of several original songs to her social media accounts over the years, including one honoring Cobain called “ Angel .”

She opened up about what her father might think of her songs to E! News in 2018, saying, "I would hope that he would be proud of the human being I am even if he didn't like the art I am putting out.”

In October 2023, Frances tied the knot with Tony Hawk ’s oldest son, Riley Hawk .

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org .

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