Foo Fighters perform at Toyota Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Aug 13, 2024. CONCORD, Calif. — Rarely does a skinny middle-aged man with long hair get away with approaching a crowd of more than 12,000 people, point their way and promise he and his five buddies are going to…

Foo Fighters perform during Dreamfest benefitting Benioff Children’s Hospitals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 13, 2023. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. The Foo Fighters, who had previously announced the summer North American leg of the Everything or Nothing at All Tour, have added a new show at Toyota Pavilion in…

RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, boygenius, Slowdive, Hozier, Yves Tumor, Foo Fighters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, The Clientele, Avenged Sevenfold, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Caroline Polachek, Blur, Feist, Sonic Youth and Billy Woods with Kenny Segal. Our album reviews are…

Chris Shiflett, “Lost At Sea.” Singer and guitarist Chris Shiflett keeps his plate full at all times. Whether its touring the world with Foo Fighters, hosting a podcast or writing and recording his own music, he’s a musician’s musician. His latest album, Lost At Sea, is a genre-spanning work…

Foo Fighters perform during Dreamfest benefitting Benioff Children’s Hospitals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 13, 2023. Photos by Drew Altizer. SAN FRANCISCO — Just a month after headlining Outside Lands, rockers Foo Fighters returned to the Bay Area to perform at Dreamfest, benefitting UCSF Benioff Children’s…

Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2023. SAN FRANCISCO — Outside Lands is always a little unpredictable, both onstage and as it comes to mother nature. Karl the Fog had a ticket for…

Chris Shiflett, courtesy Joey Martinez. There’s little time spent idle for singer-songwriter Chris Shiflett, best known as Foo Fighters’ guitarist. He’s back at his Los Angeles home after a trip to England where the Foos played a surprise set as The ChurnUps. Shiflett acknowledges that many attendees had long…

Foo Fighters, “But Here We Are.” But Here We Are is the concept record the Foo Fighters never wanted to make. But Here We Are  Foo Fighters Roswell Records/RCA, Feb. 24 9/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. But a year after the tragic loss of their brother and…

Insert Foot is available to fill in as Taylor Hawkins in any Foo Fighters tribute bands, such as the Fooz Fighters. My buddy and I had this silly idea this week that we could go see the Foo Fighters in Tahoe in August. We don’t need to, as we’ve…

Taylor Hawkins performs with Chevy Metal at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Shawn Robbins/STAFF. The first time I saw Taylor Hawkins, I was stunned. It was 1997, and the Foo Fighters were playing Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland on The Colour…