Foo Fighters announce new album, make plans for Spokane Arena show
Foo Fighters on Tuesday announced a new album and tour – a year after saying the band was going on “indefinite hiatus.”
Better still, that tour will come through Spokane in December.
In an email to fans, frontman Dave Grohl said the band had spent the past six months secretly recording an album so big it “will undoubtedly fry stereos from here to Fukuoka. Start saving speaker money now. It’s big.”
Produced by Greg Kurstin, “Concrete and Gold” will be released on Sept. 15. They’ll kick off a U.S. tour on Oct. 7 in San Bernardino and hit the Spokane Arena on Dec. 4.
Tickets are on sale June 29 through TicketsWest. Prices range from $51 to $101.
Fans who have been paying attention knew something was up. The band came off of hiatus in February with a secret show in Somerset, England, that served to announce the Foos would headline Glastonbury 2017, one of Europe’s largest festivals. They’ve already played the BottleRock in Napa Valley, California, and have summer plans for Europe and Asia.
A new song, “Run,” was released on June 1 with a video featuring the heavily disguised band members rocking out at a retirement home.
The Foos will be playing Spokane for what appears to be the first time since 2003, when they played at the convention center. The band is a not-infrequent visitor to the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, most recently in 2015. That year also saw the band play Walla Walla as part of Mumford & Sons’ Gentlemen of the Road tour.
While Grohl may not have been in Spokane since the 21st century was young, one member of the Foos was here just a few months back. Guitarist Chris Shifflett played the Big Dipper in March in support of his honky-tonking solo album, “West Coast Town.”
Grohl formed Foo Fighters in 1994 after Kurt Cobain’s suicide brought an end to Nirvana. The self-titled debut, released in 1995, kicked off a career that has spawned nine studio albums, more than 30 million records sold worldwide, and 11 Grammy Awards, including four for best rock album for the records “There Is Nothing Left To Lose,” “One By One,” “Echoes, Silence, Patience and Light,” and “Wasting Light.”