{"id":2021465,"date":"2025-09-14T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021465"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:41:04","slug":"foo-fighters-play-first-show-with-new-drummer-ilan-rubin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/foo-fighters-play-first-show-with-new-drummer-ilan-rubin\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Play First Show with New Drummer Ilan Rubin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Dave Grohl called Rubin &#8220;the most badass&#8221; at the California theater show, which included both hits and deep cuts<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/foo-fighters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_foo-fighters\" data-tag=\"foo-fighters\">Foo Fighters<\/a> performed with new drummer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ilan-rubin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ilan-rubin\" data-tag=\"ilan-rubin\">Ilan Rubin<\/a> for the first time Saturday night at their first show of 2025, in San Luis Obispo, California\u2019s 900-capacity Fremont Theater.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/foo-fighters-new-drummer-ilan-rubin-replace-josh-freese-1235397528\/\">Rubin<\/a>, formerly of Nine Inch Nails, joined the band this summer after the Foos <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/foo-fighters-drummer-josh-freese-part-1235341357\/\">parted ways with Josh Freese<\/a>, who had stepped in after the 2022 death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt one point, frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dave-grohl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dave-grohl\" data-tag=\"dave-grohl\">Dave Grohl<\/a> introduced Rubin from the stage. \u201cEverybody else has said it,\u201d Grohl said. \u201cI finally get the opportunity to say, \u2018Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome\u2026\u2019\u00a0The most badass motherfucker, Ilan Rubin, is playing drums in the Foo Fighters right now. It\u2019s official. You can stamp the passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe surprise performance, announced the day before, featured 25 songs in all, including hits like \u201cEverlong\u201d and \u201cLearn to Fly,\u201d and a handful of tracks that haven\u2019t been played live in several years.\u00a0 Among them was \u201cExhausted,\u201d from the Foos\u2019 first album, which Grohl wrote while he was still in Nirvana and even played for Kurt Cobain as a potential song for that band. They also played \u201cWinnebago,\u201d another Grohl composition that preceded the existence of the Foos.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foo Fighters - Winnebago (2025 Live in San Luis Obispo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-yG-195CoTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe announcement for the show on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOhskRGkZB6\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the Foos\u2019 Instagram<\/a> included a teaser of what appeared to be a new track. The Foos will hit the road shortly, playing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/tour-dates\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">tour dates<\/a> in Indonesia, Singapore, Japan and Mexico before the end of the year.\u00a0 Earlier this year Foo Fighters, dropped their first new music since 2023\u2019s <em>But Here We Are<\/em>: the new track \u201cToday\u2019s Song\u201d\u00a0 and a cover of Minor Threat\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Hear It.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Grohl called Rubin &#8220;the most badass&#8221; at the California theater show, which included both hits and deep cuts Foo Fighters performed with new drummer Ilan Rubin for the first time Saturday night at their first show of 2025, in San Luis Obispo, California\u2019s 900-capacity Fremont Theater.\u00a0Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails, joined the band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[355058,305309,366588],"class_list":["post-2021465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dave-grohl","tag-foo-fighters","tag-ilan-rubin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Foo-Fighters-Play-First-Show-with-New-Drummer-Ilan-Rubin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}