Foo Fighters

Is It Me* Or Did the Foo Fighters Disrespect Cobain by Playing "My Hero" for Obama?

Editor's note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn't really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here's his t ... More >>

Kendall Schmidt of Big Time Rush: "Having Four Guys in the Band is Going to Bring Out the Teenage Girls"

Being in a successful boy band and having a hit TV show is hard work. Just ask Kendall Schmidt of Big Time Rush. Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Schmidt was singing by the age of three and acting by the time he was ten. In 2009, Schmidt was cast as the leader of the band Big Time Rush. Over the ... More >>

The Best and Worst Performances of Last Night's Grammys

Five Best Performances 1. Jennifer Hudson Grammy host L.L. Cool J had a hard enough job presiding over a celebration undercut by tragic circumstances, and he achieved a perfect, almost pastor-like tone from the get-go. But Miss Hudson's musical tribute to Whitney Houston - a subtly searing but stil ... More >>

Darstar Fondly Recall The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters

Usually with this column, we might interview one or two people from a band. With Darstar, all five members were kind enough to share the first shows they saw and played. And, if you wanted a reminder of how effective Smashing Pumpkins were in their heyday, listen to what Lisa Hardaway has to say.

Ten Performances Worth Seeing at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin This Weekend

​Yes. Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend in Austin, and judging by the eclectic-as-ever line-up, the name continues to become even more appropriate with each passing year. Celebrating its sixth birthday, the bash will take place on Auditorium Shores, which marks a step into more of a big-time, desti ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 40: LehtMoJoe

​Like most babies from the '80s who grew up with an ear for music, Vincent Sliva dedicated hours of his youth to recording his favorite songs off the radio onto cassette tapes. But rather than just playing them back on his boombox, he tried to sync the songs up with other songs on the b-side ... More >>

Watch: The Foo Fighters Play A Secret Garage Show To A Crowd of 50 in Rural Dallas

​Well, that was fast: Just two days after the Foo Fighters rolled through the region to perform a secret show in a fan's garage as part of their Blackberry-backed promotional tour, the band has rolled out their video recap of the event. It's a fun watch, too, if a little heavy on the typical Dalla ... More >>

An Attendee's Take On "The Hottest, Sweatiest" Show Of The Foo Fighters' Secret Garage Tour

Rebecca DixonThe scene at the Foo Fighters' secret garage show in Dallas last night.​We tried -- really -- but to no avail. We weren't getting into the not-so-secret garage show the Foo Fighters played in Dallas last night. It came as part of the Blackberry-backed promotional tour where the band i ... More >>

Somewhere In Dallas Today, The Foo Fighters Are Playing A Secret Show.

​Two weeks ago today, the Foo Fighters released their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, a disc that has fans going bonkers and critics continuing to hail the band as one of the great rocks acts of its generation.Deservedly so: Recorded in Foo leader Dave Grohl's garage -- despite the band havin ... More >>

This Is The Scene Right Now At That Secret Foo Fighters Garage Show...

Foo Fighters. In a garage somewhere in Dallas. Right now. As seen on Rebecca Dixon of Lovie's Twitter account.​Well, that secret Foo Fighters show? We tried like the dickens to find out where it was. No luck. Band's publicist said she had no idea herself -- just that it's somewhere in Dallas.And, ... More >>

The Best Performer of All at This Year's SXSW? Seryn, If You Ask Paste.

Seryn​ Regrettably, we didn't make it out to Paste's Thursday day party featuring North Texas' own Sarah Jaffe and Seryn (fellow North Texans Eisley played the magazine's Wednesday party), and, to hear Paste tell it, boy, did we miss out: The venerable and regrettably now online-only music rag cla ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Joe Walsh Brings the Funk (#49) to Reunion Arena

​No need to rehash my feeling about The Eagles -- if only I'd kept that fax Don Henley sent me back when I was at the Dallas Times Herald and he tried to bar me from his Starplex show. Though, on second though, I guess he was trying to do me a solid. Still, I would have missed opener Susanna Hoffs ... More >>

Broncos 17, Cowgirls 10. My Top 10 Observations.

​10. Fox's Pam Oliver stinks. While she was busy reading some shallow, pre-orchestrated featurette, we went three series before learning that Gerald Sensabaugh was out with a bum thumb. And though Marion Barber played just one snap in the second half, we never received an update. 9. Not ... More >>

Sunny Day Real Estate Reunites At Just The Right Time

Bonus MP3: Foo Fighters -- "DOA (LehtMoJoe Remix)"

​We've brought up LehtMoJoe a few times now on DC9, mentioning Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva's various remixes, and marveling at his production rate--and, specifically, how he planned to release a new remix ever week leading up to the release of his solo album, Spaghetti Western. Well, on Fri ... More >>

Brand X: Your Dallas Cowboys Are Set to "Swing It Around" With a Theme Song

Amazingly, we still have stashed on the server Polyphonic Spree's "H-O-O-P-S Yes!," the '07 "anthem" penned for FC Dallas -- what do you mean you don't remember? Then perhaps you recall a time when Your Dallas Mavericks were "Rowdy, Loud and Proud," courtesy PPT; and who can forget Pantera's catchy ... More >>

AA Bondy, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon

Friday, February 20, at Lola's Stockyards, Fort Worth

Smile Smile Gets In The Valentine's Day Spirit (Not Really), Offers Free Download

Local indie pop duo Smile Smile, whose long lost love is the thing legend 'round these parts, is offering a free download of its cover of the Foo Fighters' "Walking After You" on its web site in anticipation of its free show on Friday night at the Barley House. Check it out--it's actually pretty go ... More >>

Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup

Last Night: Foo Fighters at American Airlines Center

Win Foo Fighters Tickets

Handicapping the Grammys with a Foo Fighter

Foo Fighters Make Dallas First Stop on U.S. Tour

Sing Me Back Home (From Frisco)

Polyphonic Spree Sprouts Wings

This Isn't Very Light Christian Rock of You, Mayor Tom

What You Will Be Listening to This Weekend With Your Ears

Kid Rock's Gonna Screw Up My Cowboys-Bills Game

Beat the Crowd

Dinosaur Jr.

Beyond (Fat Possum)

Hand It to Him

Slowride

C/S (Deep Elm)

Foo Fighters

In Your Honor (Epic)

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell | Alison Moyet

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell (Songline/Tonefield) | Voice (Sanctuary)

Live

September 4

Alkaline Trio and Pretty Girls Make Grave

June 5

The Ataris; Cave In; My Morning Jacket

April 19

All His Life

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

Foo Fighters

One by One (RCA)

Tenacious D

April 20

Tenacious D

Tenacious D (Epic)

Out There

Foo Figheters

Brightness falls

Sunny Day, everything's A-OK with the band three years after a miserable break-up

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Roadshows

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

Roadshows

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