Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969)[5][6] is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and film director, who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter and founder of the Foo Fighters. Prior to Foo Fighters, Grohl was the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot, as well as being involved with Queens of the Stone Age numerous times throughout the past decade. He has performed session work (as a drummer) for a variety of musicians, including Garbage, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Prodigy, Slash, Iggy Pop, Juliette Lewis, Tenacious D, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Lemmy and Stevie Nicks.[7][8]

For more information about Dave Grohl check the Wikipedia article here

ZME Science posts about Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl wants to create super-supergroup, with members of Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Rage Against the Machine and many more

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

0 Comments

Supergroups are not really a novelty or a shock, but what Dave Grohl is planning is just crazy: he wants to create a group called the Sound City Players, with Fleetwood Mac‘s Stevie Nicks, Nirvana‘s Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear (long time colaborator, Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s John Fogerty, Foo Fighters‘ Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and [...]

Nirvana to actually tour with Paul McCartney?

Mon, Dec 17, 2012

0 Comments

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the members of Nirvana reuniting with Paul McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert last week. They actually performed a brand new song, “Cut Me Some Slack”, rather than go for any Nirvana or Beatles tracks. They went on to perform Saturday Night Live, which left [...]

Nirvana reunite with Paul McCartney – for one concert

Wed, Dec 12, 2012

0 Comments

It’s a last minute bid for “What the hell?!” of the year: Paul McCartney will front a reformed Nirvana at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert tonight. Both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are joining in, as will Pat Smear who once toured as an additional Nirvana guitarist and now plays the Foo Fighters. With Kurt [...]

Queens of the Stone Age release cryptic teaser

Wed, Dec 12, 2012

0 Comments

The Queens of the Stone Age have released a handwritten letter to Mojo magazine, explaining why their new album has been delayed for more than a year and why this might actually prove to be a good thing. The QOTSA album is definitely one of the most expected of the year, and one which will [...]

Dave Grohl to play drums on new Queens of the Stone Age album

Wed, Nov 7, 2012

0 Comments

So it’s been a while since a Queens of the Stone Age record.  More than a little while, actually:  Their last effort came out in 2007. Well that’s all gonna change sometime in the near future, apparently.  Frontman Josh Homme tweeted the above pic to not only announce that a new record is in the works, but [...]

[Hot Streaming] Short sample of Foo Fighters’ new upcoming album

Mon, Jan 17, 2011

0 Comments

At the beginning of the year Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters announced out of a sudden that they’ve finished recording the band’s seventh studio full length, leaving Foo fans and reminiscing grunge fanatics incredibly anxious. Not much is known about it, except from what Grohl already told us, namely that old Nirvana buddy Krist [...]

24 Hours of hardcore punk, brought to you by Steven Blush

Fri, Dec 3, 2010

0 Comments

The guy behind American Hardcore: A Tribal History, a book detailing the history of hardcore punk that later spawned a film, has uploaded 24 hours of hardcore punk (911 songs). The set contains all the logical inclusions: D.R.I., Black Flag, Bad Religion, NOFX, and Scream (the band Dave Grohl was in before Nirvana). You can [...]

[VIDEO] Jack White and Dave Grohl perform at Paul McCartney tribute (live @ White House)

Wed, Jul 21, 2010

0 Comments

The White House was host last month to a great selection of fine musicians like Jack White, Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Seinfeld, Emmylou Harris, all of which performed as a tribute to Paul McCartney. Although it’s been a while since this happened it’s only been until today that video footage of the event has [...]

Guitar God Les Paul ascends to a better realm

Fri, Aug 14, 2009

0 Comments

Yesterday was a sad, sad day for music. Electric guitar virtuoso and inventor Les Paul died, at the epic age of 94. It was him who you can call the father of the solid body electric guitar, as well as multitrack recording. His blazing riffs were absolutely the bomb and he performed with some of [...]

Finally – John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl are Them Crooked Vultures!

Wed, Aug 5, 2009

2 Comments

Exactly one month ago we were stoked to report the formation of one of the most awesome supergroups to see the light of day in years – a band comprised of none other than Led Zep’s John Paul Jones, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. Today, we’ve got a [...]

Subscribe for FREE!

Popular This Week

The Top Albums of the Decade

Whos among us