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Posts tagged "Foo Fighters"
Blerd Briefs: The BET Hip-Hop Awards, Jack White & Foo Fighters
Drama at the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Jack White melts down, and the Foo Fighters call it quits? Here are today’s Blerd Briefs.
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #34
Kurt Cobain would have turned 45 this week. Does he still represent my generation? Did he ever represent my generation? Jack Kerouac wrote in On the Road “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across […]
Popblerd’s 2012 Grammy Awards Live Blog!
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our live blog! Starting at 8 PM EST, we’re going to be hitting you with live coverage of the Adele Awards 2012 Grammy telecast, happening at the Staples Center in L.A. Join us for all of the surprise wins, all of the emotional tributes, and all of the bad outfits!
Popblerd’s Grammy Preview & Predictions 2012: Rock Categories
Hey y’all! The same way that some consider the Academy Awards the Super Bowl for non-sports fans, the Grammy Awards is like the Super Bowl for a certain strain of music fan. Of course, I’m a football fan, so it’s kinda like having the Super Bowl a week after the Super Bowl…and it’s very likely that this year, Madonna will be at both. I won’t go into specifics about the history of the Grammy Awards. You all have Wikipedia for […]
The Viewfinder: “These Days” by Foo Fighters
Is it safe to say that Wasting Light was the album that officially jumped the Foo Fighters from great rock band into legendary rock band status? 17 years in and still able to punch out a #1 album and plaster themselves all over rock radio–I’d say their ticket to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is pretty much stamped. Dave, Taylor, Nate, Chris and Pat also look to add some more hardware to their trophy shelf in about a […]
bLISTerd: The Popblerd Staff Presents The Best Music of 2011…And Some Playlists!!
We’ve spent much of the past week looking back at the year that was, with many of the writers on staff posting their lists of their 11 favorite albums of 2011. Everything from indie rock to hip-hop got mentioned, and every writer that contributed an individual list (and a couple that didn’t) ranked their albums. Those rankings were then compiled and the result…a quick and dirty list of the site’s 40 favorite albums of the year. Suck it, Billboard! 1) […]
bLISTerd Presents: Nick’s Top 11 Albums of 2011
Aw…they look so cute. Mastodon leads the charge on Nick’s list of the top 11 albums of 2011.
bLISTerd Presents: Tom’s Top 11 Albums of 2011
My favorites jumped around a lot this year but the two at the top– despite one’s “newness”– are easily ahead of the rest. 2011 wasn’t the best year ever for music, but it produced a small number of records that I really like. *1. Foo Fighters, Wasting Light I called this my record of the year halfway through 2011. “If there is a better second half of the year release I’ll console myself with that hypothetically brain-punchingly excellent album.” Bands get sharper […]
bLISTerd Presents: Cassandra’s Top 11 Albums of 2011
Foster The People had one of this year’s biggest albums by a new band, and they feature on Cassandra’s Top 11 of 11 list. What else made the cut?
Grammy Nominations Announced Tonight; Who’s Gonna Clean Up?
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Grammy nominations get announced tonight. Who will come up as the big nominee? Besides Adele, that is…
We Saw It!: The Foo Fighters In Newark, NJ: 11/14/11
When is the last time you’ve seen a veteran band successfully drive a concert with their new album? Enter Foo Fighters. The band — and specifically Dave Grohl — find themselves in an impressive place. They are both commercially viable and and a finely tuned machine. Some bands try to mix the new stuff in, leading to buzz kill bathroom breaks. Others will announce they opening with some new stuff, basically to get it over with. The Foos ripped through […]
