Foo Fighters
received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for their last disc, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. So what will they do for an encore? Apparently, frontman Dave Grohl has decided to make the band's new disc a sort of Nirvana reunion, bringing in Nevermind producer Butch Vig and recruiting bassist Krist Novoselic to play on one track. Grohl has promised that the new album will be a pure rock effort. "In the 14 songs there's not one acoustic guitar," he told an interviewer.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
We're used to long gaps between Red Hot Chili Peppers records, but it's been five years since Stadium Arcadium. Still, you can't accuse the L.A. group of being lazy: They had to find a new guitarist after John Frusciante left the band around 2008, eventually replacing him with Josh Klinghoffer. But the band have been steadily working on Stadium's follow-up, with a release date very tentatively set for summer.
Big loss with Frusciante leaving the band. Have meant to buy some of his albums, which are meant to be very good
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