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...where popular music is becoming increasingly polarized between the catchy, navely sexual tunes of Britney and Christina and the unabashed rage of Eminem and Limp Bizkit, it is nice to know there are still a few rock bands out there to fill the middle ground. The Foo Fighters, under the direction of Dave Grohl, have managed to update their sound in tune with the times on each of their three releases. Their most recent album, There is Nothing Left to Lose, was a fusion of their trademark four-chord power punk with plaintive melodies and actual singing. "This...
...Seattle grunge scene as the drummer for Nirvana on the group's legendary album, Nevermind, and became known as the "cheerful" member of the band. His mutually antagonistic relationship with Kurt Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, has been well documented. A year after Cobain's suicide, Grohl released the Foo Fighters' first album-a guitar-heavy jamfest for which he wrote all the material, played all the instruments, and sang. The band, named for the term for UFOs seen by American pilots flying over Europe during World War II, came into its own with 1997's softer, more intricate album...
...Foo Fighters are content for now with channeling their anxieties into mad energy onstage, which explains why they're swinging through Massachusetts this coming week. Whether their sound will continue to evolve in the studio remains to be seen...
...Foo Fighters will play the Worcester Palladium...
Heralded by many in the early '90s as the underground heroes of the punk-melodic metal scene, Sunny Day Real Estate has endured a long and torturous history, complete with a bitter break-up in 1995, the subsequent departure of two band members for the Foo Fighters and the conversion of current frontman, Jeremy Enigk to Christianity. The band's 1998 reunion saw the return of William Goldsmith, whose bombastic drum playing rounds out Enigk's rugged vocals and Dan Hoerner's pulsating guitar work...