

It was an old house built in the '40s, I believe – just the quintessential creepy house. What's that all about?ĭave Grohl: So there was a house down the street from where I live that I actually rented about 10 years ago. Question: Taylor Hawkins said you recorded this album in a haunted house. Summerfest 2021: Festival postponed to allow more time to distribute COVID-19 vaccine On a recent Zoom call from his Los Angeles home, Grohl, 52, told USA TODAY about the making of "Medicine at Midnight" and more: So if you don't like the dancey bits, just fast forward."

"You've got your disco, dancey, groove-oriented album, and then other half is pretty traditional Foo Fighters rock music. "It's almost like two records in one," says drummer Taylor Hawkins. The nine-track effort is produced by hitmaker Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia), who shepherds the group into David Bowie-esque pop.

"Medicine at Midnight," out Friday, is a departure of sorts for the raucous hard rock band, which Grohl formed in 1994 after Nirvana broke up due to Kurt Cobain's death. "We made these songs to share and it's time to share them."
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"There was this series of conversations like, 'Should we do it now?' 'It's not a good time.' 'What about now?' 'No, no.' "Īfter months of sitting on new music, waiting for a sense of normalcy to return, "everyone realized that wasn't going to happen anytime soon," he continues. His band, the Foo Fighters, already had their new album in the can and ready for release when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. "It turned into 3½ months," Grohl says with an exasperated laugh. Last March, Dave Grohl and his family flew to their home in Hawaii for spring break. Watch Video: Dave Grohl on new Foo Fighters album, prodigy Nandi Bushell
