Dave Grohl is not Jewish, but he’s been serving up a special Hanukkah celebration for 2020.
23.11.2020 - 14:27 / nme.com
the 10-year-old musician who’s been in a long-running drum battle with Dave Grohl, has responded to his concession.The YouTube star and Foo Fighters frontman have been participating in a series of back-and-forth musical challenges issued to each other over the past year.Grohl recently admitted defeat while speaking on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
“That kid is a force of nature”, he said, and likened the situation to squaring off with a school bully: “I’d be like, oh my God, I’m gonna get
.Dave Grohl is not Jewish, but he’s been serving up a special Hanukkah celebration for 2020.
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have shared the second track in their new series of covers to celebrate Hanukkah.After covering The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ on Thursday (October 10), the pair have now taken on Drake‘s classic ‘Hotline Bling’.“You might be surprised to learn that this superstar is… Canadian,” Grohl joked on Twitter when sharing the cover, which sees the Foo Fighters frontman singing and playing drums.“He’s never hidden the fact that he was M.O.T.
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have teamed up to cover The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ – the first in a new series of covers to celebrate Hanukkah.In a video posted to Twitter, Grohl is seen delivering vocals and drums on the furious rendition of the 1994 track, while Kurstin plays the song’s distinctive keys.Sharing the track to Twitter, they wrote: “As the only Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers with a lyric about kugel, we thought it would be a shanda to not kick off this party with New York’s
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFoo Fighters founder and frontman Dave Grohl and Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin have announced “Hanukkah Sessions,” a series of eight songs written by Jewish artists to be rolled out beginning with the start of the eight-day Festival of Lights at sundown Thursday.The pair announced the series in a social media post late Wednesday night that begins, “Hi, I’m Greg Kurstin and I’m Jewish,” followed by, “And I’m Dave Grohl.
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Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have announced a new covers song series to celebrate Hanukkah.The pair will cover eight songs by Jewish artists this month, one for each day of the holiday season.“This year, instead of doing a Christmas song, Greg and I decided to celebrate Hanukkah by recording eight songs by eight famous Jewish artists and releasing one song each night of Hanukkah,” Grohl explained of the project in a new teaser video, which you can watch below.“With all the mishegas of
Dave Grohl is not Jewish, but he’s serving up a special Hanukkah celebration for 2020.
David Lander, who was best known for playing Squiggy on the beloved sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died at the age of 73. Lander died of multiple sclerosis, which he battled for the past 37 years.
a series of back-and-forth drum battles between Bushell and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl across lockdown.“My heart is full of pride! I am so excited for you to hear my new song I wrote with Zuzu,” Bushell wrote of the song. “On the song I play ALL the instruments [guitar, bass, drums, keyboard] myself.
Dave Grohl.The design, made for the drum manufacturer’s ICON series, pays homage to the legendary Nirvana sticksman and subsequent Foo Fighters frontman.“I’d like to thank everybody at DW, as this is something that blows my mind,” Grohl said in a press statement. “I’ve never had my own snare drum before, and this is pretty beautiful.”Grohl also posted a clip showing off the snare and thanking DW – watch below:Only 250 of the limited edition snare will be produced.
Star Wars actor David Prowse battled coronavirus before his death, his daughter has confirmed.The 85-year-old, who was best known for immortalising Darth Vader in the original Star Wars franchise, died over the weekend.While it was initially confirmed that Prowse had battled a “short illness” before his passing, his daughter Rachel has now confirmed that the actor had contracted Covid-19 and was previously living with Alzheimer’s.She told The Sun: “It’s horrible that Covid restrictions meant we
Eli Countryman Playing off of one of the Foo Fighters’ most beloved hit songs, the band members came together to reflect on their 25-year music journey in “Times Like Those,” a new video uploaded to the band’s YouTube channel.Beginning with a “Star Wars”-inspired title screen, the video explains its premise from the jump: a look back on “bad fashion decisions, questionable facial hair, and, to be fair, a pretty respectable collection of guitars.” Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris
Dave Grohl has conceded defeat in his weeks long drum battle with ten year old British drummer Nandi Bushell.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has finally conceded defeat in his long-running drum battle with 10-year-old Nandi Bushell.Across lockdown, the pair have taken part in a series of back-and-forth musical challenges issued to each other.Bushell, a YouTube star who has been impressing fans for years with her drum covers, was noticed by Grohl after her take on Nirvana‘s ‘In Bloom’ went viral earlier this year.“She’s beating the crap out of her drum set, and when she does drum rolls, she screams,”
Foo Fighters performed their latest single ‘Shame Shame’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (November 19) – check out their performance below.Released on November 7, ‘Shame Shame’ is the first preview of the Dave Grohl-led band’s new album ‘Medicine At Midnight’, which is set for release on February 5, 2021.The Foos gave ‘Shame Shame’ its live TV debut on Saturday Night Live earlier this month, and followed that performance up yesterday with a storming appearance on Colbert’s
Finally, Dave Grohl has conceded.
The Cribs have reflected on the recording process of ‘Night Network’, with the band saying they felt they had “nothing to lose” with their new album due to the difficulties that were happening behind the scenes at the time.The Wakefield trio will release their eighth album on Friday (November 20), marking their first LP since 2017’s ‘24-7 Rock Star Shit’.Speaking to NME about the album, which was recorded at Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 in LA after Dave Grohl personally invited them to use the
during a video chat last week.“I get to meet a rock star, oh my God,” Grohl beamed to Bushell, adding, “I can’t believe I’m talking to you. I feel like I’m meeting a Beatle.”During the chat, Grohl extended an invitation to the young rocker.“When the Foo Fighters finally come back to the UK, do you think that you would get up onstage and jam with us?” Grohl asked.
Dave Grohl has said the upcoming new Foo Fighters album won’t all sound like new single ‘Shame Shame’.The band debuted the song on last week’s post-election episode of Saturday Night Live, and they also announced details of their 10th album, ‘Medicine At Midnight’.Showcasing an eccentric, funk-driven side of the band, Grohl has now insisted in a new interview that it’s not a representation of the album’s sound as a whole.“We wrote a lot of these songs to be played in stadiums — these big