Foo Fighters’ first “new” music since their 2023 album However Right here We Are is, appropriately, an 80-second cowl of iconic Washington D.C. hardcore band Minor Risk’s 1981 track “I Don’t Wanna Hear It.” The instrumental for the brand new model, which arrived on YouTube this morning (June 30) however will not be but on streaming providers, was recorded in 1995 and frontman Dave Grohl added vocals this 12 months.
Grohl was reared within the D.C. underground music scene and launched music along with his pre-Nirvana band Scream on Dischord Data, which was based by Minor Risk’s Ian MacKaye. Regardless of this, the Foos have hardly ever coated acts from that period, preferring to extra continuously trot out basic rock songs by Queen and David Bowie, AC/DC, Queen and Pink Floyd.
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In 2015, MacKaye revealed that he’d discovered previous fan letter from a teenaged Grohl, asking for “some numbers of individuals to get in contact with.” The observe included his telephone quantity and the hours that he might be reached — between 3:00 and 10:00 pm. Grohl later gushed to NME, “I’m telling you, if the Foos might do a Dischord single, then we might break up. Achieved deal.”
“I Don’t Wanna Hear It” arrives amid the approaching thirtieth anniversary on July 4 of the band’s self-titled debut, which has been teased with a Substack web page that includes uncommon photographs and modern recollections in regards to the Foos’ profession.
Grohl and firm will return to the highway Oct. 2 in Jakarta, marking their first exhibits following drummer Josh Freese’s sudden departure earlier this 12 months. No alternative has been named.
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