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Dave Grohl Says He Never Meant For Foo Fighters “to Be a Career”

Photo: Mazur/WireImage The Foo Fighters may have just released their Greatest Hits, but that doesn’t mean the band is calling it quits any time soon. “I look at it now like it’s the end of chapter one, this is the first 15 years,” Grohl tells Time.com in a video interview. “I think we’ll be back sooner than people would imagine.” Grohl, though, admits that he never expected the Foo Fighters to last this long. “The first album was a fluke — it wasn’t meant to be a career,” the Them Crooked V

Published: 2009-12-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tour Tracker: TV on the Radio, Band of Horses and Manchester Orchestra

Photo: Jelonek/WireImage TV on the Radio hope to prove that ill-fated Saturday Night Live performance was just a fluke with their summer tour, Band of Horses gallop back onto the road and Manchester Orchestra set out to promote their sophomore album Mean Everything to Nothing. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump… TV on the Radio April 18 - Indio, CA @ Coachella May 12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall May 16 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s BBQ May 17 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues May 18 - Oklahoma, OK @ Diamond Ballroom May 22 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre May 23 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre May 25 - Vancouver, BC @ Malkin Bowl May 27 - Edmonton, ALB @ Edmonton Events Center May 28 - Calgary, ALB @ Macewan Hall May 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Louis’s Pub June 2 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy June 3 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis June 4 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues June 5 - New York, NY @ Central Park Summer Stage June 8 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club Band of Horses April 15 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst April 17 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater April 18 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival June 10 - Norfolk, VA @ The Norva June 11 - New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall June 12 - Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live June 14 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival June 16 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel June 17 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre June 18 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues Manchester Orchestra April 21 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In April 22 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt April 23 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle April 24 - Richmond, VA @ The National April 25 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar April 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero April 29 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom April 30 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East May 1 - Rochester, NY @ Water St. May 2 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s May 3 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop May 5 - Pontiac, MI @ Eagle Theater May 6 - Columbus, OH @ Skully’s May 7 - Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter May 8 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean May 9 - Minneapolis, MN @ Station 4 May 12 - Denv

Published: 2009-02-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Paramore and Jimmy Eat World Roll Out Their Road Show in San Antonio

For more exclusive photos from this show, click here. Consider the “internal issues” officially dealt with. Though Paramore cancelled a handful of European dates amidst rumors of breakup and pregnancy, it appears as though the group has worked through the normal everyday problems that afflict a young band learning to grind it out on the road. It couldn’t have come at a better time, too, as Paramore were refreshed and vibrant as they kicked off a U.S. tour opening for Jimmy Eat World, the emo elders who gave the young upstarts a reason to emote in the first place. Last night at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas — night one of a twenty-gig run — Paramore proved their Grammy nomination for Best New Artist wasn’t a fluke, as they buzzsawed through their big, hooky catalog of songs, particularly blowing up on “Born for This,” “crushcrushcrush” and “For a Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic.” A third axeman bolstered the guitar assaults unleashed during regular headbanging sessions. To their cameraphone-waving fans, the big payoff was closer “Misery Business,” the song with its own T-shirt. Shutterbugs gave way to crowd surfers for Jimmy Eat World’s set. It opened with the killer left-right combo of “Big Casino” (off their 2007 album Chase This Light) followed by the old-school jam “Sweetness.” Paramore’s raw energy was obviously rubbing off on the road veterans from Arizona. Despite singer Jim Adkins’ somewhat bitter complaints about their tour geography (”We could have started this tour on the West Coast. We could have started this tour on the East Coast. But no….”), the band’s bright, shiny anthems gave the amped-up crowd a Texas-sized evening of glorious emo catharsis. Check out more photos from the show here. [Photo: Brian Birzer of RollingStone.com]

Published: 2008-04-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows