Dave Grohl

Motorhead - Club Nokia - May 14, 2013

Motorhead Club Nokia May 14, 2013 The privilege of watching Motorhead thrash on their instruments is certainly a good way to spice up any Tuesday night. But there is no way to start this review without discussing the insanity of their opening act, Anvil, who took the stage with a vengeance in front ... More >>

Six Pieces of Dave Grohl Fan Art You Really Must Own

There are two types of people in this world: Those who create bizarre fan art and sell it online, and those who contemplate purchasing it. (We wish we were the former, but we're more of the latter). In case you were curious as to where you could purchase a handmade Dave Grohl finger puppet or hand-p ... More >>

Scott Devours' Call to Greatness

How a local drummer scored a gig with the Who but had only four hours to learn 'Quadrophenia'

Kings of the Stone Age

Dave Grohl and other rockers toast LA's Sound City

Paul McCartney To Play With Nirvana Tonight At The 12-12-12 Concert? Unfortunately, Yes

For those of you who may or may not know, tonight in New York City is the granddaddy of all Sandy concerts. Taking place at Madison Square Garden, tonight's show will feature some of the biggest names in music history including (drumroll please) Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Bon Jovi, Eri ... More >>

Courtney Love Is Sued Again...Are You Surprised?

Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder for Courtney Love, they somehow manage to top the last outlandish incident. Earlier this year, Love's former lawyer Rhonda Holmes and her firm filed a lawsuit accusing the singer of libel stemming from a June 2010 incident where the singer tweete ... More >>

Tupac is Back: Six Dead Artists We Should Resurrect Via Hologram

As many of you know by now, Tupac performed at this year's edition of Coachella via hologram. When he appeared, the much-intoxicated crowd did not know what to do. It was as if Tupac had died and rose again (to many conspiracy theorists, that was a literal take). Now that we know how Dr. Dre and AV ... More >>

[UPDATED with Frances Bean's Statement] Courtney Love Hates Dave Grohl...Or Does She?

UPDATE, April 12, 2012, 5:51 p.m.:Frances Bean Cobain has also released a statement: While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.  I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way.  I'm in a monogamous re ... More >>

Burgerama This Weekend: Not Bill Murray-fied, But You Can Still Pogo Til You Puke With Wavves, OFF!, Strange Boys and More

​There's a very special moment in a musical career that happens only to the luckiest and generally most righteous people--the kind of thing that confirms not only that you've arrived, but that you're headed to even better places in the future. This is called the Bill Murray moment, because it's wh ... More >>

Skrillex Fans: Five Reasons They Suck

​Dear Sonny Moore, Congratulations on winning three Grammy awards this year. You are undoubtedly very talented, and know how to get down during your set. Forget what Dave Grohl said about DJs making music on their computers. I mean, he only performed with Deadmau5 at the Grammys right after h ... More >>

Dave Grohl Clarifies His Grammys Speech

​"Rather than go to the best studio in the world down the street in Hollywood and rather than use all of the fanciest computers that money can buy, we made this one in my garage with some microphones and a tape machine...To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of m ... More >>

3hree Things: Random Thoughts About The 2012 Grammys

Watch out for 3hree Things (usually) every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​ Because a column that usually runs on Tuesdays should run on a Monday. Because the ... More >>

Dave Grohl Producing a Sitcom; Why Not? Five Funniest Grohl Bits

​Dave Grohl is reportedly executive producing a sitcom about a rock band in crisis. According to NME, the Foo Fighters founder is working with comedian Dana Gould on the project for FX. Gould will write and star in the project, which will "focus on a band on the verge of megastardom who fall out, ... More >>

3hree Things: (A Few Of) My Favorite Drummers At the Moment

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, in which Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​the above image was respectfully borrowed from Kick/Snare/Hat and taken by Sangsouvanh Khounvic ... More >>

Courtney Love Flips Out Onstage Over Cobain Poster, Continues Ranting About Dave Grohl

​On Sunday night, Courtney Love launched into an insane rant in the middle of a Hole set at Sao Paulo's SMU Festival after a fan waved a Kurt Cobain poster in front of her.

Songhammer Wants to Create a Big Bang at BlizzCon

​We don't know why the guys in this photo look like they're members of Tool, but we do know that Songhammer is what happened when buddies Ben Stewart and Dustin Miller one day decided to write music for the people who like World of Warcraft. And we mean, really like World of Warcraft, as members ... More >>

Death Cab for Cutie in Awe of the Foo Fighters and Other Things You Didn't Know About DCFC

Jeremiah Garcia/KCRW​Last night we hiked up to Santa Monica in rush hour traffic to check out Death Cab for Cutie at probably the smallest venue we'll ever see them at--Apogee's Berkeley Street Studio, for a KCRW show that will broadcast on Morning Becomes Eclectic on November 1.

Foo Fighters Performing at BlizzCon

[Mental Notes] Landmark Long Beach record store to close

A Joy Formidable Ride

The Welsh trio goes small before they go big

Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Eddie Vedder Join Mike Watt & the Missing Men On Stage in Seattle

One of our favorite perma-performing musicians around, Mike Watt, was joined on stage last night at the Triple Door in Seattle during his encore by Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder and Pat Smear. The group performed "Big Train," the first track off Watt's 1994 debut solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?--which yo ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Foo Fighters at Fingerprints on Record Store Day, April 16

Chad Sengstock/OC WeeklyFoo 'til you're red in the face​The Show: Have you ever seen a guy make the sign of the cross with his face? If you haven't, then you haven't seen the Foo Fighters play live, which is a shame. Frontman Dave Grohl did the head-banging maneuver with teeth clenched several tim ... More >>

[UPDATED] Foo Fighters to Perform In-Store at Fingerprints for Record Store Day!

​UPDATE, APRIL 11, 6:56 P.M.: Hey, seriously, this in-store performance is way sold-out. Fingerprints would like to stress that there will be absolutely no walk-up entry on Saturday. So don't go loiter outside the store anyway hoping you'll get in, and stop freaking out the city of Long Beach, oka ... More >>

Foo Fighters at Fingerprints!

[Mental Notes] Record Store Day, Andrew W.K. and Honeypie at Detroit Bar

Five Songs We'd Love To See On Glee (and Storylines to Go With Them)

​ Last week, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters entered into a minor public spat with Glee overlord Ryan Murphy when he announced that none of his music would ever appear on the FOX-TV hit. Grohl is not the first rock star to issue a No Glee statement to the press-- Coldplay and Guns n' Roses did th ... More >>

Mark McGrath's Post-Rock Resume

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyMark McGrath accepting the Orange County Impact Award with his band Sugar Ray at the 2010 OC Music Awards​​Midlife is rarely kind to anyone, most of all rock stars. For every 40something badass like Dave Grohl, there are hundreds of mopes from the alternative rock e ... More >>

Noveselic Grohl Vig - Kurt = An Honest-To-Goodness Nirvana Reunion!

​Except not in the way you think. Krist Noveselic and Dave Grohl--who were two-thirds of Nirvana, and producer Butch Vig get together in video for the first time since, well, maybe Nirvana. Watch it after the jump.

Benefit Shows for Eagles of Death Metal's Brian O'Connor

Flickr user SydigillBrian O'Connor playing with the Eagles of Death Metal at the Commodore Ballroom in 2009​Eagles of Death Metal bassist Brian O'Connor has been diagnosed with cancer, and is undergoing surgery in LA today. He'll begin chemotherapy in three weeks, and because he doesn't have heal ... More >>

President Obama, Paul McCartney, Jack White, Seinfeld, etc. Come Together And Sing "Hey Jude"

[Via Pitchfork] ​While you were eating dinner, doing laundry or watching TV last night, President Obama was apparently singing "Hey Jude" at the White House with a bunch of other famous people. The grand sing-along happened after he p ... More >>

Pavement Launch Reunion Tour, Gorillaz Chased by Bruce Willis in New Video, Lil Wayne, Dave Grohl

Pavement fans: the reunion that hits Coachella has begun (in New Zealand). Stereogum has the set list. Coachella co-headliners Gorillaz debut video for "Stylo"--first single off Plastic Beach album out March 9--starring everybody's favorite action hero Bruce Willis in bad guy role. Click to watch ... More >>

Five Good Reasons to Get Acquainted with Mr. Gnome

​A weird band name usually has one of two effects on the average, unsuspecting music buff. Either A: You hear it once and burst out laughing, and think, "They can't possibly be any good," and never give it another thought; or B: you still laugh, but you think, "They can't possibly be any good--or ... More >>

Bad Religion/Tenacious D Drummer Brooks Wackerman Steps Up to the Mic With Kidneys

Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim

Andrew Youssef​Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim; October 10, 2009. Better Than: The Creed reunion. The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, and Sunny Day Real Estate all made waves in the early '90s with their heart-on-a-sleeve lyrics and alternating quiet/loud guit ... More >>

Sublime reunion in...WTF??? Nevada???

The Internets are abuzz with the rumors of a potential reunion of Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, also known as the two living members of Sublime. The fact that Wilson and Gaugh performed in the Long Beach Dub Allstars and a slew of bands pre-Sublime makes this a tad less exciting as say, Krist Novoselic ... More >>

Fee Waybill and the Tubes Have Survived More Than Three Decades of Rock. Somehow

The Rasta Fire Next Time

Nearly 30 Years On, Punk Legends Bad Brains Are Still Burning Twice As Bright

One Toke Wonder

Tenacious D gets the band back together, and . . . and . . . and?

HOT AS IN GOD

This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

Get Googled

The Hidden Hand cant stay hidden

Disaster and What Comes After

Out on the street with Rye Coalition

Live Previews

Disaster and What Comes After

No ones on the street with Rye Coalition

Stifled No More

Alls well in Bangleland

A Weenie In The Ear!

Queens of the Stone Age

Rock Your Way to Homeland Security!

Let Jim show you how

Crammed Down My Throat

The hating of Tenacious D

CD Reviews

Limp Bizkit; John Wesley Harding; Bettie Serveert; Gingersol

Tom Mitchell

Bassist/Vocalist for the Over-Reactors, Insomnia Sufferer