The Foo Fighters have released a whole batch of new music on their website — in miniature. The landing page for the band’s site contains 10 new riffs… which, for those hoping for actual new songs from the group, definitely counts as a start.
No context is offered for the music snippets, which last in length from five to 13 seconds, and only one of which includes a vocal. But it’s assumed these are kickoff moments for tunes that will constitute a new album, which would be their 12th, and first since 2023’s “But Here We Are.”
The instrumental snippets are accessed — in old-fashioned CD-ROM hover-and-click style — by clicking on band posters or photographs pictured as being taped or otherwise affixed to a wall in a bedroom with a guitar, stacks of CDs and some dirty clothes.
Only a few of the excerpts include vocals, and even then, it’s limited to mostly ooh-ing or howling — although one of the links does feature the sound of frontman Dave Grohl repeatedly singing the phrase “Turn the cameras off.”
Similarly, the band had posted a short melange of heavy riffing on its Instagram page four days ago with imagery that repeated the phrase “Here we go again.” The group’s latest IG post featured the same image seen on the home page along with one of the furious-sounding “na-na-na” snippets and the message, “Consider this an evaluation.”
“Reminds me of the days of cryptic marketing,” remarked one fan on social media.
The Foo Fighters recently did their first show of 2026 in Australia, where Grohl said, “We might have a whole new record of fucking songs that we just finished the other day.”
Much more live activity is in the offing, with festival shows set to take place in May and a North American stadium tour that runs Aug. 4 through Sept. 26. It will be the group’s first tour with new drummer Ilan Rubin, from Nine Inch Nails.
Meanwhile, former drummer Josh Freese has given an interview to Modern Drummer magazine in which he says he still has no concrete reason why he was sacked.
“I think I have a pretty good read on people, and I did not see that coming,” Freese told the magazine. “One day it was nothing but laughs, we’re onstage, and Dave’s looking at me every night like, ‘You’re killing it dude.’ And then it was just over.” Freese noted that he harbors a “couple small theories” for being let go but “can’t really go into them right now.” He added, “I did really enjoy the two years I spent with those guys, however, and they were good to me until they weren’t…. I loved having Dave Grohl as a bandleader. I truly respect him so much as a drummer first and foremost. To me, he’s a drummer first and everything else is second. I’ve listened to him on all the great records he’s played drums on more than I’ve listened to any Foo Fighters stuff.”
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