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It’s rare for a band’s second bite of the apple to taste better than the first, but ‘90s alt-rock outfit Failure continues to be one of the few exceptions.

The Los Angeles-based space rockers’ decade-in-the-making documentary, Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Documentary About Failure, chronicles their early ’90s origin story, beginning with the fated duo of frontman Ken Andrews and multi-instrumentalist Greg Edwards meeting each other through The Recycler’s music classifieds.

Andrews, who took over directorial responsibilities for the doc in the middle of the pandemic, then focuses on the band’s many ups and downs throughout the production of their first three studio LPs, primarily their third record, Fantastic Planet (1996), which would go on to be widely regarded as a masterwork. Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, counts it among his top albums of all time.

During Fantastic Planet’s 1995 recording sessions, heroin...

A long-in-the-works documentary about the alt-rock band Failure — whose three Nineties albums fomented a cult following that eventually sparked an ongoing, decade-long reunion — will finally see release this month.

Every Time You Lose Your Mind, directed by the band’s singer/multi-instrumentalist Ken Andrews, will premiere June 27 on both Hulu and Disney+, nearly a decade after the documentary about Failure was first announced.

“Our fans have connected with the themes of depression and addiction in our music,” Andrews said in a statement. “The film crystallizes those connections and, ultimately, communicates hope.

HanWay Films has boarded “The Third Parent,” the upcoming horror starring Rob Lowe alongside Crispin Glover, and Roselyn Sanchez, and will launch international sales in Cannes.

The Walter Media Group film, which recently wrapped production, marks the feature debut of producer David Michaels, who writes and directs. Bleecker Street recently acquired the North American distribution rights and will release the film nationwide in theaters.

Bethany Milner (“The Trap”), Rafael de Belligny (BBC’s “Lord of the Flies”), and Jack Roberts (“Remnants”) round out the cast.

Based on the popular viral “creepypasta” series from writer Elias Witherow — which portrays the terrifying and other worldly figure of Tommy Taffy and his twisted actions as a parental disciplinarian — “The Third Parent” charts his invasion of the Hollow family and marks his nightmarish introduction to the big screen.

The story follows Mason (Lowe), a middle-aged father who lives with his wife Megan (Sanchez) and...

Silversun Pickups have mapped out a massive 2025 North American tour going down from April to August.

The 31-date trek arrives as the Los Angeles quartet completes their forthcoming seventh studio album with producer Butch Vig. It also comes in support of their 2022 album, Physical Thrills, which they worked on with Vig as well. The new tour will see the band on the road in the US and Canada throughout the spring and summer, including a stop at the Saint Paul festival Minnesota Yacht Club.

The tour begins on April 24th in Little Rock, and continues with shows in Boulder, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Boise, San Francisco, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Nashville, Asheville, Atlanta, Memphis, Montreal, Cleveland, New Haven, and many more. The run ends on August 26th with a concert at 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. See the full list of Silversun Pickups’ 2025 tour dates below.

Garbage have announced their new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, out on May 30th.

Marking their eighth studio album, the LP was recorded at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, drummer Butch Vig’s studio Grunge Is Dead, and the bedroom of vocalist Shirley Manson. The record was co-produced by the band with longtime engineer Billy Bush. Pre-orders are ongoing.

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In a statement, Manson said she went into the making of Let All That We Imagine Be the Light “determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in” than Garbage’s previous album, 2021’s No Gods No Masters, which the singer said was “born out of frustration and outrage.”

“I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future. Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the...

Jimmy Page paid tribute to the late Steve Albini, who served as recording engineer and mixer for the 1998 album, Walking into Clarksdale, a collaboration between Page and his former Led Zeppelin bandmate, Robert Plant.

“I was very sad to hear of Steve Albini’s passing this week,” Page wrote in an Instagram post. “Robert and I worked with him in 1997 on our album, Walking Into Clarksdale — a record I’m still really proud of.

“I had a strong connection with Steve, we all did on that album, and he came...

Foo Fighters paid tribute to Steve Albini — who worked with Dave Grohl on Nirvana’s In Utero — Thursday night at the band’s concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much too soon,” Grohl told the audience at Foo Fighters’ first concert since Albini’s death Wednesday at the age of 61.

“He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. Talking about Steve Albini.

Starting in the Eighties, Butch Vig and Steve Albini, who died Tuesday at 61, had one of the most interesting symbiotic relationships in indie rock. Both were recording bands in their studios, in Milwaukee and Chicago, respectively. Both played in bands. “Neither of us went to recording school,” Vig says. “We just figured it out on the fly.”

Vig produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, but when the band wanted a less glossy sound for its follow-up, In Utero, they turned to Albini. The famously outspoken Albini wasn’t afraid to zing Vig...

The idea for Jason Thomas Gordon’s new book, “The Singers Talk” — which features new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Roger Daltrey, Chrissie Hynde, Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Smith, Geddy Lee, Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke, Rod Stewart, Steve Perry, and many other superstar vocalists — came to him one night after meeting Eddie Vedder at a party.

“I went from being the drummer of my band to begrudgingly becoming the lead singer as well,” Gordon, who fronts the L.A. rock band Kingsize, tells Rolling Stone. “Once I started taking it serious,...

Consequence, Modern Drummer, and Yurt Rock are on a quest for the next great funk musician. We asked aspiring funk artists to download our free Clyde Stubblefield drum loop pack and use the loops to produce a completely original song for our Who’s Got the Funk? contest. We received dozens of entries, and after listening to all of the amazing work, we’ve narrowed it down to our four finalists.

Whether they used one, two, or all three of the Stubblefield loops, each of our finalists injected their own sound, feel, and funk into their work. There’s the funky guitar instrumental with a hint of country dubbed “Electric Bath Attendant” by Dave Macki, the horn-heavy cut featuring samples of Stubblefield’s own voice called “I Feel the Funk” by Matt The Katt, the dynamic and electric ode “Who’s Clyde?” by We Are Neurotic, and the hip-hop influenced...

Almost as soon as Garbage’s self-titled debut blew up overnight in 1995, their singer, Shirley Manson, became aware of the patriarchy running the music industry. Even though she was the group’s focal point — belting dusky electro-rock songs about making sense of depression (“Only Happy When It Rains”) and taking pride in nonconformity (“Queer”) — she was still a woman fronting a band of men, one of whom, Butch Vig, had produced Nirvana’s Nevermind. Almost immediately, she felt as though her role in the group was being devalued — not by the guys she worked with,...

This year’s Sf Indiefest, San Francisco’s first independent film festival of the year, will take place virtually from February 4-21, 2021. This year’s selection includes 42 shorts and 38 features from 20 countries. Two of the three world premieres are, notably, Asian selections – including Bay Area Asian-American production “Girl in Golden Gate Park” and spicy Japanese fiction “Body Remember”. Other notables include the film festival’s only international premiere, “Roll” — which had previously premiered in the Nara International Film Festival — a reckless coming-of-age film caught between celluloid and of course, a romantic interest.

The rest of the major film slate can be found below.

Festival Opening Night

The Book Of Vision

Director: Carlos S. Hintermann

In present day, Eva (Lotte Verbeek), a promising young doctor, leaves her brilliant career to study the history of medicine in a remote university. She begins to call everything into question after discovering a manuscript titled...

This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of Rolling Stone’s newly updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. The Who’s Who’s Next topped Butch Vig’s personal ballot and landed at number 77 on the overall list. Here, Vig reflects on the huge impression the album made on him as a young musician. (Go here to read the complete list of 500 Greatest Albums voters and learn more about how the current ranking was assembled.)

The Who are a really important band to me. They were the first...

The Batman trailer has brought Nirvana's 1991 song "Something in the Way" into top digital music charts. Matt Reeves unveiled the first trailer for the movie during the DC FanDome event over the weekend. In the trailer, a reworked version of the Kurt Cobain-written song can be heard in the background, adding an audible dark vibe to the footage. It sets a tone, though many believe a song from the Cure would have been better since Robert Pattinson looks a lot like front man Robert Smith in the footage.

As of this writing, the official trailer for The Batman has been watched well over 15 million times. That's a lot of people checking out the upcoming movie and hearing the classic Nirvana song, some of which may have never even heard of the band. That new publicity has brought "Something in the Way" to number 18 on the Amazon digital music...

Singer and activist Deon Jones was taking part in a peaceful protest in Los Angeles after the killing of George Floyd when a police officer fired a rubber bullet at his face from close range. Had the projectile hit him an inch lower, it could’ve blinded him — an inch higher, he could have died.

As Jones recovered, his long-time collaborator, the artist Glenn Kaino, enlisted several artists, including jazz pianist/Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste and producer Butch Vig, for a new musical project — a reimagining of U2’s classic 1983 protest song,...

One of 1994’s heaviest albums was also one of its strangest. Released on June 21st of that year, Betty, the third full-length from NYC four-piece Helmet, retained the huge staccato riffs, free-form solos and supple vocal hooks that had helped make their prior album, 1992’s Meantime, into a period classic and unlikely MTV hit. But this time around, the band dialed up the weirdness, adding sly funk elements, surrealistic lyrics, a deconstructed jazz standard and unsettlingly wholesome cover art into the mix.

“I think I adopted a stance from the...

Silversun Pickups will release their fifth album, the Butch Vig-produced Widow’s Weeds, on June 7th via their own New Machine Recordings label. The alt-rock band previewed the LP with its pulsating, string-fueled lead single “It Doesn’t Matter Why.”

In the track’s minimalist video, the band members and other strangers stare into the camera against blank backgrounds, posing and dancing and contorting as the arrangement winds into guitar harmonics, violin solos and the passionate belting of frontman Brian Aubert.

In a statement about Widow’s Weeds, which follows 2015’s Better Nature,...

Melvins formed a few years before anyone used the word “grunge” as the name of a genre, but they embodied the term perfectly with their deep, sludgy riffs and left-of-center songwriting. Since 1984, they’ve released dozens of albums of uncompromising and sometimes experimental music, and constantly challenged rock norms. When we compiled our recent list of the 50 Greatest Grunge Albums, two of their standout LPs — 1991’s Bullhead and 1993’s Houdini — made the cut.

The band’s frontman, vocalist-guitarist Buzz Osborne, was surprised to hear the news, but not for the reason you may guess.

Smashing Pumpkins should have been in high spirits heading into the making of their second LP. But according to Billy Corgan, the lead-up to Siamese Dream was one of the darkest chapters in the band’s history. “We were on tour, selling out everywhere we go,” the singer told Rolling Stone in 1995 of the period following their 1991 debut, Gish. “Everything went cool, fine, dandy. Suddenly, boom: Nirvana. We went from being seen as future stars almost to has-beens, people saying, ‘Well, if you were so good, this would have happened to you.

If one thing is abundantly clear to anyone who’s ever spent time with Dave Grohl, it’s that he’s an even bigger music fan than he is a rock star. Whether talking about his favorite Van Halen album (“Fair Warning”) or getting to play drums as a teenager with Iggy Pop at a record release show in Toronto, he is as animated as he is on stage.

So Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates were the perfect people to resurrect Cal Jam, the massive festival held in 1974 and 1978, and last year when Grohl and the Foos flew the flag again, alongside Queens of the Stone Age, Cage the Elephant, Liam Gallagher and many more.

“Talk about bringing the party,” he says of the original festivals. “When I look at that lineup, I think about the musicianship. To see a band as funky as Earth, Wind & Fire, and then...

A new documentary about revolutionary grunge outfit L7 will be released October 13th on DVD and video-on-demand. L7: Pretend We're Dead will also get a multi-city theatrical run starting September 1st at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon.

The film will screen throughout September in select cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. The last planned showing is October 5th at Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn.

Filmmaker Sarah Price (The Yes Men, Summercamp!) directed Pretend We're Dead, which chronicles the band's remarkable career, from...

Foo Fighters have returned, and they’re up to their old tricks—emphasis on old.

The Dave Grohl-led outfit is celebrating 22 years this summer, but anyone fearing that the band’s sledge hammer riffs have gone soft will have their ear drums pounded into rubble by their new song, “Run.” Age brings wisdom, and a greater ability to shred.

The accompanying music video hammers the point home. The Foos—prematurely elderly with the magic of prosthetic makeup—find themselves in an oppressive nursing home, lead by terrifying Nurse Ratched-like staff. Grohl, nearly unrecognizable but for his trademark Trini Lopez Gibson,...

On April 5, 1994, the world lost Kurt Cobain, who, at age 27, had committed suicide at his Seattle home with a 20-gauge shotgun. His body was found two days later by an electrician.

In a 1994 article in Rolling Stone magazine, writer Neil Strauss took a deep dive into the Nirvana singer’s final days, including a look at his lengthy battle with drugs and depression.

Cobain’s body had been found to contain high traces of heroin and valium when he died, though at the time of his death, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic dismissed the idea that his drug habit was the reason he killed himself.

Music on Film is a new podcast that discusses as many aspects of audiovisual marriage as possible. Guests might include a film composer, a director with a propensity for visionary soundtracks, a musician who is featured in a film, or in the case of today’s premiere episode, the subject of a music documentary. In this episode, I speak with Butch Vig, the co-founder of Madison, Wisconsin's Smart Studios and the executive producer and interview subject of the new documentary, The Smart Studios Story. He is also a founding member of the band, Garbage. In the the early years of Smart, Vig, who had a lifelong penchant for the act of recording in the most Diy sense, opened the studio namely to record his own music...

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Chicago – Cimm Fest is back to save the world from ordinary film festivals! The Chicago International Music and Movies Festival (Cimm, baby!) launches on April 13, 2016, with “The Smart Studios Story,” directed by Wendy Schneider, with appearances by Butch Vig and Steve Marker of Smart Studios.

Filmmaker Schneider has created a chronological tale of two music lovers and a dream that developed into Smart Studios of Madison, Wisconsin. This story eventually evolved into the sound that changed everything – the “Nevermind” album from Nirvana, produced by the Smart Studios’ Butch Vig. Using archival footage and interviews with the main players, Schneider brings back a time and place that can never be again, but also has vibrations to this very day. The film will premiere at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, and will be followed by an after party at the Cabaret Metro (home of so many of that era’s...

Fans all over the world waited anxiously last night (March 2) to see what Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates would say in their much-anticipated announcement video. And thankfully, the “Big Me” rockers aren’t splitting up, despite a ton of rumors to the contrary.

The clip opened with Grohl contemplating a solo career while chatting with legendary producer Butch Vig, though Dave’s attempts at a new direction were disastrous to say the least.

On the other side of the coin, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear and the boys tried to come up with a new lead singer, naming frontmen such as Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Justin Bieber, Phil Collins and Prince.

Finally, they decided on Nick Lachey and invited the former 98 Degrees crooner to a jam session to sing their hit “Everlong.” The video closed with the firm declaration, “For the millionth time, we’re not breaking up. And...

Foo Fighters' HBO series Sonic Highways premieres Friday, October 17th, and now we have another extensive look at what we can expect to see and hear from Dave Grohl's eight-episode musical travelogue. The five-minute trailer also reveals many of diverse guest stars that are a stop along Sonic Highways: Willie Nelson, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Kiss' Paul Stanley and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, Public Enemy's Chuck D and Dolly Parton, just to name a few. The night before the series premiere,...

Dave Grohl and his legendary rock band Foo Fighters are hitting the road in the first trailer for their HBO documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. Dave Grohl directs each episode as his band travels to American cities such as Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C. to collaborate with new artists and studios, to find each city's musical identity. Take a look at the first footage before the eight-episode Season 1 kicks off on Friday, October 17 with the pilot.

Directed by Dave Grohl, each one-hour episode is devoted to a different American musical landmark, chronicling the history, cultural environment and people that define each city's unique musical identity. With episodes set in (in alphabetical order) Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C., Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways features appearances from local legends who have become...

The Foo Fighters next album will be called “Sonic Highways,” and it sounds pretty heavy. The rock band formerly announced the album title — which it shares with upcoming HBO documentary series “Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways” — and released a 13-second snippet (above) of one of the eight tracks that were each recorded in a different city. See video: HBO Goes Into the Studio With the Foo Fighters in New Documentary Series The album, the band's ninth, was produced by Butch Vig and recorded in studios in Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and New York.

Eight songs, written and recorded in eight cities, eight different album covers for their eighth album: Foo Fighters are crazy for eights on their new album "Sonic Highways." The rock quintet, led by Dave Grohl, announced details on their new album today (Aug. 11), revealing that the Butch Vig co-produced set will be out by Black Friday: "Sonic Highways" will hit shelves on Nov. 10. With only a few songs on the album, it clocks in at 44-minutes, which would average out to about five-and-a-half minutes per song. (Hey, and 4+4=8!) The set shares the same name as Grohl's new HBO series, which takes a snapshot of famed recording studios in eight different cities -- Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The band wrote a new song in each stop, while Grohl and his video team would film the recording process and interviews with supporting characters along the way.

Did your favorite artists walk away with Grammy gold this year? See the full list of winners, then weigh in with your response!

Music’s biggest night is finally here! The 56th annual Grammy Awards went down Jan. 26 at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, and some of the hottest names in the biz showed up to accept top honors. HollywoodLife.com has the complete list of this year’s Grammy winners, so read to find out who won big — and who got snubbed.

Grammy Winners 2014 — Full List Revealed

Best Rock Album: Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin

Best Metal Performance: “God Is Dead?,” Black Sabbath

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams

Best Alternative Music Album: Modern Vampires Of The City, Vampire Weekend

Best Rock Performance: “Radioactive,” Imagine Dragons

Best Country Song: “Merry Go Round,” Kacey Musgraves

Best Country Solo Performance: “Wagon Wheel,” Darius Rucker

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “From This Valley,...

Which music stars went home with awards at the 2014 Grammy Awards? Find out with this full winners list.

Winners in each category are bolded.

Record of the Year

"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons

"Royals" -- Lorde

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars

"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell

Album of the year

"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles

"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar

"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

"Red" -- Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)

"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)

"Royals...

Comic-Con isn't an event for the faint of heart. In many ways it is like a more relevant, hyper Sundance Film Festival full of strange and exotic nerd wildlife. Only At Park City, you don't have the Comic-Con pandemonium, and the San Diego attendees hardly ever get to see the actual movies and TV shows that thousands of people are schilling. In a day and age where breaking news is covered every second of every minute, Comic-Con takes this idea, centralizes into one finite spot...And then cranks up the intensity 1000 percent.

Basically, you need to have a lot of tricks up your sleeve to even keep your eyes above the water level. Whether it's attending a just scheduled panel for Godzilla in Hall H where Gojira himself has decided to attend, or standing in line for hours when you could be watching another, maybe even better panel, or accepting a dreaded "Free Hug,...

I’ll admit, I’m a little late to the James Bond party. But I’m sure if I had been writing for WhatCulture back in November 2012 I would have jumped in with an article on the most inventive villains, the best one liners or the most shocking moments in the Bond franchise (Its Tracy’s death at the end of Her Majesty’s Secret Service by the way).

Eight months on, Bond fever is still here. The franchise was reborn with style with Casino Royale in 2006. But with the success of last year’s Skyfall, Bond mania exploded and I’m still reading articles over who is going to be the next Bond girl or the merry go round of directors (current plans suggest Sam Mendes Will be back to direct Bond 24).

So with that in mind, I thought I’d jump in with my thoughts on an...

Thank God for Dave Grohl. Everyone’s favorite Foo Fighter and the most cheerful member of Nirvana, his irrepressible energy and sheer delight in rocking the F out shines during his loving remembrance of the legendary Los Angeles recording studio Sound City in his debut documentary feature of the same name. Ostensibly a memorial to the studio that spawned such albums as Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers catalog, and Nirvana’s Nevermind, among many, many other classic rock albums, the film also celebrates the craft and collaboration borne of this kind of specific recording process. And he trots out a Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame's worth of collaborators: Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Lee Ving of Fear, Trent Reznor, Josh Homme, Pat Smear, Butch Vig, and Paul McCartney, not to mention interviews with Neil Young, Rick Rubin, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, Lars Ulrich,...

Earlier this month, we spoke to producer, drummer and grunge icon Butch Vig and his long-time sparring partner Phil Davis about their new country rock project The Emperors of Wyoming. While we were on the line, Digital Spy couldn't help but chat to Vig about some of his other glories, past and present. Below is what the man behind some of the most important guitar records ever had to say about Nirvana's Nevermind, reuniting with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic for Foo Fighters' Wasting Light and Garbage's triumphant return. On Nevermind...

"We revisited it last year because it was the 20th anniversary and I helped Dave and Krist work on the box set. I think that it sounds as fresh and vital now as it did when it came out. It just completely turned the world on its side at the (more)...

'It all sounds ridiculous to me,' drummer David Prowse says of the critical acclaim heaped on their second album.

By James Montgomery

Japandroids' Brian King

Photo: MTV News

The best rock record of 2012 is not some overwrought, double-disc affair, nor was it presided over by a studio pro like Rick Rubin or Butch Vig, and it doesn't contain a single instance of dubstep. Rather, it is an eight-song, 35-minute fist-pumper called Celebration Rock, the second (barely) full-length from Japandroids, a pair of unassuming everydudes from Vancouver.

And what Celebration Rock lacks in general grandiosity, it more than makes up for in sheer sonic wallop, featuring thundering drums, rousing riffs and more top-volume "Woah-oh-ohs!" than any record in recent memory. Much like the duo that made it, the record is a brazenly blue-collar, proudly scruffy thing, a revelatory, celebratory disc that seems tailor-made for beery, cheery sing-alongs and all manner of drunken debauchery.

This past week, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Butch Vig, Hole, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and a whole swirl of Nirvana characters past ahve banded together in a milky way of news.  First, Dave Grohl is reportedly in the studio with former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic and "Nevermind" producer Butch Vig. Or so says Vig. "The last 24 hours have been surreal! Had a great gig at the El Rey last night, and spent today recording with Dave, Krist and special guest!" Vig Tweeted late last week. No more has been said about the "special guest," but here's some context: Grohl's forthcoming...

By Zachary Swickey

Time and time again Twitter casually drops music news gems in our lap, and this time it concerns Dave Grohl being in the studio with some old chums: original Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and producer Butch Vig.

The three music icons are said to be working on Grohl’s in-the-works documentary on Sound City Studios – the place where Nirvana recorded their worshipped breakthrough effort Nevermind. And for those who don’t recall, Vig is the man responsible for producing that album and making Cobain’s guitar sound not only intelligible, but totally freaking awesome.

Vig let news slip of the little get-together on his Twitter account, writing, “The last 24 hours have been surreal! Had a great gig at the El Rey last night, and spent today recording with Dave, Krist and special guest!”

Unfortunately, we have no word on just who this “guest” might be. The trio...

Was Kurt Cobain working on a solo album before his death? Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson recently told Fuse TV that the Nirvana frontman had recorded multiple demos before his death in 1994. These demos have never been released.

"He was headed in a direction that was really cool," Erlandson said. "It would have been his 'White Album'. That's really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people ... I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That's why I was really sad when he died. He was cut short. Who knows where this music would have gone?"

Erlandson later revealed that Cobain also recorded a cover of a well-known song, which has never been released. However, the former Hole guitarist wouldn’t confess which song Cobain covered.

“There is one cover...

¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! will be issued at two-month intervals, beginning on 25 September

Green Day have announced a trilogy of new albums. ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! will be released at two-month intervals, beginning on 25 September. And according to the band, they are "epic as fuck!".

"We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives," the rockers said. It's a major move for a band in the third decade of their career. The three LPs, due in the next eight months, will comprise Green Day's ninth, 10th and 11th full-length albums. Not since the Clash's Sandinista! has a world-famous punk band lobbed such a mammoth (and Spanish-titled) opus.

"This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming," Green day explained. "Instead of making one album, we are making [three]. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels.

Garbage's new single, "Blood for Poppies" is a sonic slab that is instantly redolent of the band from its mid-2000s heyday, and yet at the same time, sounds completely new. Awash in synthesizers and guitar effects, the song also combines a slight reggae, slacker feel as Shirley Manson wonders "why they are calling on my radio/they know I'm here/just outtasight." The production, helmed by band members --including uber-producer Butch Vig-- is intense, especially during the echo-y breakdown in the middle about "staying alive." [More after the jump...] It turns out, the song was inspired by a few things and once you...

Garbage have announced further details of their upcoming fifth studio LP. Not Your Kind of People will be the band's first album since 2005's Bleed Like Me, and will be released on May 14. A deluxe version of the album will contain four extra songs titled 'The One', 'What Girls Are Made Of', 'Bright Tonight' and 'Show Me'. The album was recorded in Atwater Village in Los Angeles and produced by drummer Butch Vig. Garbage will play their first UK show in seven years at London's (more)...

'Never has a 33-second acceptance rant evoked such caps-lock postboard rage,' Grohl writes on the Foo Fighters' Facebook page.

By James Montgomery

Foo Fighters onstage at the 2012 Grammy Awards

Photo: Getty Images

Midway through his Mvp-like performance at Sunday's 54th Grammy Awards — a tour de force that included wearing a Slayer T-shirt, engaging in a lengthy guitar duel with Bruce Springsteen and inadvertently standing in Paul McCartney's spotlight for, like, 45 seconds — Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl strode to the stage to deliver a delightfully long-running acceptance speech, one that some thought took a few none-too-subtle jabs at the burgeoning Edm movement.

Surrounded by his bandmates and Wasting Light producer Butch Vig, Grohl held the band's Best Rock Performance award and spoke about the back-to-basics approach the Foos employed while making the album, which included eschewing computers and recording directly to 2-inch tape, saying in part:

"To me,...

'[We're going to record it] in space. To tape,' frontman Dave Grohl says of follow-up to Wasting Light.

By James Montgomery

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl

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Hours before Dave Grohl cemented his status as the secret Mvp of the 54th Grammy Awards with a Jeremy Lin-like performance that included a Slayer T-shirt, a time-limit-be-damned acceptance speech and a three-minute guitar duel with Bruce Springsteen, the Foo Fighters frontman was in the mood to celebrate.

After all, by the time the Foos chatted with MTV News on the Grammy red carpet, they had already won an armload of awards, including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance ("I feel so bad for the Dream Theater guy," Grohl joked). So when we asked him for details on his upcoming documentary — and rumors of an accompanying album — well, Grohl let the details spill forth like so much celebratory champagne.

Dave Grohl especially excited about Best Hard Rock/Metal win for 'White Limo': 'That's kind of the coolest song we've ever written.'

By Kara Warner, with reporting by James Montgomery

Foo Fighters win Best Rock Performance at the 2012 Grammy Awards

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Music's biggest night has come and gone, with Adele and the Foo Fighters walking away with the most Grammy loot. Although Adele bested the Foos with her six Grammy wins compared to their five, the rockers owned the night in their own way, including their part in a tribute to electronic music that also featured David Guetta, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and deadmau5.

When MTV News caught up with the band on the Grammy red carpet — when they had already won four trophies, including Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for "White Limo," Best Rock Song for "Walk," Best Rock Album for Wasting Light and Best Long...

The Grammys shed 31 categories in April, but the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has a suggestion for one they should add: "Best garage record. Wouldn't that be f--ing rad?" says the 43-year-old frontman. "Or best old-school album," offers producer of the year nominee Butch Vig, 56. They're not entirely kidding, though it's doubtful they'd have much competition. That's because Wasting Light, the Foos' seventh album, was an all-analog production created by meticulously stitching together pieces of 2-inch tape, as was the usual practice until the mid-'90s, when digital recording became commonplace. "You have to

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Butch Vig tells MTV News he's 'really proud' of Wasting Light, up for Album of the Year at Sunday's Grammys.

By James Montgomery

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel

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Over the past two decades, Butch Vig has produced albums like Nevermind, Siamese Dream and 21st Century Breakdown (to name just a few), and yet he's never helmed a project quite like the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light. Recorded — and mastered — entirely on tape, in Dave Grohl's garage, it was a deliberately anachronistic disc that not only helped rejuvenate the Foos themselves, but was the kind of Herculean undertaking Vig won't forget anytime soon.

And, in recognition of that undertaking — and the rave reviews Wasting Light has earned since being released last year — the Foos head into Sunday's 54th Grammy Awards with six nominations, including a nod for the night's biggest prize: Album of the Year.

Foo Fighters have debuted their latest music video online. The band will release 'These Days' as the third single to be lifted from their 2011 album Wasting Light, which reached number one on the Us and UK charts.

The new video features behind-the-scenes footage of the group's tour of Australia and New Zealand and was directed by Wayne Isham. 'These Days' was written by frontman Dave Grohl and produced by Butch Vig (more)...

Garbage has launched its own label, Stunvolume, to put out its first new album in seven years. The still-untitled set will come out this Spring via separate licensing deals worldwide including via Universal Music Group-owned Fontana in the U.S. The group had previously recorded for Interscope Records. The band, which includes Shirley Manson,  Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, is recording the set in Los Angeles, marking the first time the group has not recorded in Madison, Wis., where the foursome formed 16 years ago. In an interview in the December issue of British music magazine Mojo, Manson says the new...