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  Watch Dave Grohl Help the Rolling Stones Tear Through 'Bitch'

  May 20, 2013 – The Rolling Stones have stuffed their ongoing, not-at-all inexpensive "50 and Counting" tour with a number of all-star cameos, including Tom Waits, Katy Perry, and John Mayer. Now, all due respect to each of those performers, the Stones went all out on May 18, bringing SPIN cover star/U.S. …
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  Watch Bewigged Dave Grohl Ponder Rush's Coolness at Rock Hall Induction

  April 19, 2013 – It was inevitable. Once news broke that Foo Fighters Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins would induct Rush into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, prog-nerds everywhere began counting down the days till the former Nirvana drummer (and recent SPIN cover star) would share the stage with the Holy Trinity. …
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  Kurt Cobain Died 19 Years Ago Today

  April 5, 2013 – Nineteen years ago today (April 5), Kurt Cobain's short life came to a sudden, tragic end. In 1994, the Nirvana frontman, at age 27, took his own life in the greenhouse of his Seattle home. …
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  Fred Armisen Picks His 5 Favorite Dave Grohl Drum Performances

  February 21, 2013 – "When Dave Grohl was going to be on the show [with Them Crooked Vultures]," recalls Saturday Night Live castmember and Portlandia costar Fred Armisen, "I thought, 'How can I get this amazing drummer in a sketch?'" The resulting "Crisis of Conformity" performance occupies a special place in Armisen's musical memory, but the former Trenchmouth drummer, who, it must be said, bears an uncanny resemblance to percussion virtuoso Jens Hanneman …
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  Mr. Grohl's Cabinet of Wonder

  February 20, 2013 – So, this happened: Stevie Nicks, microphone in hand, accompanied by Dave Grohl on acoustic guitar, performs "Landslide" to a packed house in Park City, Utah, while snow banks pile up against the building's outward-facing walls, as if stretching to see inside, only to wither into water at Nicks' heart-melting voice.In honor of his Sound City documentary on the Van Nuys, California recording studio of the same name, first-time director, f …
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  Dave Grohl: The SPIN Cover Shoot

  February 20, 2013 –  …
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  Yes He Can: Inside SPIN's February Dave Grohl Cover Story

  February 19, 2013 – The first time Dave Grohl appeared on the cover of SPIN was January 1992, when Lauren Spencer excitedly wrote, "Return to your seats, buckle up, and say your prayers: Nirvana is on a collision course with the world." Tomorrow, Grohl will grace his seventh SPIN cover, and this time it's the 44-year-old multihyphenate who's doing the gushing: "Can you imagine? …
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  Dave Grohl's All-Star Sound City Superjam Hits NYC

  February 14, 2013 –  …
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  Dave Grohl Is Already Writing the Next Foo Fighters Album

  February 11, 2013 – Somehow, between making his Sound City documentary, directing a music video for Soundgarden, guest hosting Chelsea Lately, touring with the Sound City Players, and appearing on comedy podcasts, Dave Grohl has found time to start writing the next Foo Fighters record.During a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on February 8, the 44-year-old charmer confirmed that he and his fellow Foos are at work on the follow-up to 2011's Wa …
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  Various Artists, 'Sound City: Real to Reel' (RCA)

  February 11, 2013 – As you may have heard, Dave Grohl made a feature-film documentary about the very magical, mystical, excellent-space-in-which-to-record-a-kick-drum Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California. You're also likely aware that oodles of era-defining albums, ranging from After the Gold Rush to Nevermind were recorded there.Real to Reel, the doc's accompanying album, was not. …
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