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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dave Grohl Makes Surprise Appearance To Perform With ‘80s Rock Legend
Dave Grohl Makes Surprise Appearance To Perform With '80s Rock Legend originally appeared on Parade. Someone get Rockapella to record 'Where In The World Is Dave Grohl,' because the Foo Fighters frontman is putting Carmen Sandiego to shame. And his latest random appearance occurred thanks to indie rock icon Kim Deal. Since Grohl, 56, admitted in September 2024 that he fathered a child outside of his marriage to Jordyn Blum, he's made some surprise appearances here and there. He played with Post Malone at the SNL 50th Anniversary concert in March. Dave showed up at Coachella in April, joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic to perform two Foo Fighters songs. Also that month, he played at Oakwood Live, a school benefit in Los Angeles. His latest appearance took place in London when Grohl joined the former Pixies bassist during her show at the Roundhouse on June 20. Deal, 64, brought out Grohl, who told her, 'I'll sing whatever you ask me to sing. I'll do whatever you ask me to do.' They then launched into 'Gigantic,' a song that the two have played together a handful of times over the year, per Consequence. Deal is touring in support of her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More. Grohl's appearance at Deal's London show adds fuel to an ongoing fan theory: he is going to be a 'surprise' performer at this year's Glastonbury festival. Fans began to speculate about Grohl's involvement on Jun 18 when controversial singer Amanda Palmer posted a photo of her alongside him. 'Well I'll be damned. Not who I expected to run into backstage at the [Yeah Yeah Yeahs] show at @royalalberthall in London tonight,' she wrote. Fans on Reddit speculated that Grohl may make an appearance during Alanis Morissette's set as a tribute to the late Taylor Hawkins. Before he joined the Foos in 1997, Hawkins was Morissette's drummer, appearing in videos for 'You Oughta Know,' 'All I Really Want,' and 'You Learn.' As of June, the Foo Fighters only have a handful of shows scheduled for 2025. In May, the band fired drummerJosh Freese, who says 'no reason was given' for his dismissal. The band hasn't announced Freese's Grohl Makes Surprise Appearance To Perform With '80s Rock Legend first appeared on Parade on Jun 23, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
Los Angeles Times
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Could a new Pixies classic be on the way? Joey Santiago wants to get into that ‘frame of mind'
If you were to ask what Joey Santiago and the Pixies were like a generation ago, you'd be met with an array of different answers. According to a 1991 account from The Times, the band descended upon the Hollywood Palladium one December evening, hot on the heels of its latest album 'Trompe Le Monde,' in dramatic fashion. 'The Pixies — anchored by David Lovering's hard-driving drumming and Kim Deal's booming bass, and marked by Joey Santiago's distorted guitar crunches — have become a terrific live band, almost able to match the sonic rewards of their albums,' Steve Hochman wrote of the occasion. 'What counts is that the combinations of music and words and yelps strike nerves,' he added. 'And, in truth, there's more to many Pixies songs than that.' Indeed, there was and is. But unfortunately for fans of the Boston foursome, 'Trompe Le Monde' would be the last album they heard from the group before its untimely demise just two years later, or so they thought. Shockingly, the band would get back together more than a decade later, swapping bassist Kim Deal for Emma Richardson. Fans were greeted with a reunion tour that saw them featured in both Coachella and Lollapalooza, leaving them excited for what was to come. But, it would be another exhausting wait of 10 years until they got their hands on 'Indie City,' the group's fifth studio album released in 2014. It's now an additional 10 years later, and the band has come full circle. They will once again play the Palladium on June 20 and 21 — the former will see them perform 'Trompe Le Monde' in its entirety, just as they did 34 years ago. 'It's great because there are songs in it that we hardly play,' Santiago says of the album. 'So those are going to go back in rotation, and it gives us more songs to choose from.' 'The only problem is switching guitars. There's a lot of switching guitars around,' he says with a laugh. He's sat comfortably in what appears to be an office space. Atop his head is a green and white hat, with 'LA' embroidered on its front. He's got a white beard , which makes sense for the 60-year-old father of two. It's a story all too familiar to the '90s greats — his bandmate, Frank Black, also has two kids, and so does drummer Dave Lovering. 'After our third year, pre-breakup, it became where it [touring] was just exhausting,' Santiago says, via Zoom. 'No matter what age you are, it's exhausting. … I took my kids [to shows] just for three days in the same damn time zone, they were exhausted.' The key to keeping up between all the touring and album releases, according to him, is to listen to new music. 'You gotta feed the kitty or whatever,' he jokes. He considers discovering music to be 'part of the work,' and a crucial step to generating new ideas for the group. He says he's been frequenting Wet Leg radio recently: 'It's new, it's fresh and it doesn't suck.' It's been an important factor when it comes to their latest releases, such as their newest project, 'The Night the Zombies Came,' which was released in October 2024. Unlike other post-breakup albums, this one allowed Santiago much more freedom when it came to laying down tracks. It shows between his 'long solos' and extra guitar work, which he says felt like he had returned to playing as he did when he was a kid. 'It's what I would have done if I were still in middle school or high school,' he says. 'That kind of thing.' And yet, fans have still been critical of the band's style since their reunion, fearful that they may never return to the sound that once shot them to fame on albums like 'Surfer Rosa' and 'Doolittle.' It seems to put the group in a tricky spot, constantly trying to evolve while also drawing upon their roots. 'It does sound different, and hey, we're different people,' Santiago says. He seemingly takes it all in stride, noting that while he is trying to 'get back in that frame of mind' seen on those aforementioned albums. 'Everyone's got to be on the same page,' he said. 'In the grand scheme of things, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't,' he continues. 'If we're too different, we're gonna get flack for it. If we make 'Doolittle' part two, we're gonna get flack for it.' As for the future, the band simply plans on continuing to do what it has always done best: making rock music. The members don't look likely to make any dramatic transitions into any other genres, and don't pay much mind to ongoing trends within the music industry. They're your classic 'Buddy Holly setup' with an 'occasional splash of keyboards.' 'If you want guitar music, you can go to a few bands that will provide it, and we're one of them,' he notes. And perhaps it is this very approach that has helped them to maintain their early fans while still appealing to younger audiences. That, or social media, where songs like 'Where Is My Mind?' and 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' are reposted hundreds of thousands of times across various platforms. Though it also may be worth giving a nod to that final scene in 'Fight Club.' 'It feels good,' Santiago says. 'We're lucky.' It's even been so infectious that at home, he can no longer shy away from his alter ego comfortably. 'They're starting to get what I'm doing,' he says of his kids, with a smile. 'They started getting at me two years ago.' 'They're of that age, where they'll go places and hear the Pixies. Their friends will say, 'hey, have you ever heard of the Pixies? They're really good.' Professors are mentioning the Pixies. Parents are mentioning the Pixies. So they know, and they like it.'
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Luke Combs to perform at Newport Folk Festival
NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Country music fans will want to take a 'Fast Car' to this year's Newport Folk Festival. The Newport Folk Festival announced Monday that it has added country superstar Luke Combs to its lineup for Saturday, July 26. The annual festival will run from Friday, July 25, to Sunday, July 27, at Fort Adams State Park. Tickets went on sale for the Newport Folk Festival earlier this year and sold out within minutes, despite the fact that the lineup hadn't been released yet. RELATED: No lineup? No problem. Newport Folk Fest tickets sell out within minutes The festival is urging fans not to buy 'speculative tickets' on the secondary market, since there are no PDF tickets. This year's lineup also features Kim Deal, Iron & Wine, Julien Baker & Torres, Mt. Joy, Mon Rovîa and Waxahatchee. The festival's lineup last year included Hozier, Killer Mike, the Dropkick Murphys and the Oh Hellos. A variety of artists have performed at the Newport Folk Festival in the past as well, including Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Lana Del Ray and Jimmy Buffett. Download the and apps to get breaking news and weather alerts. Watch or with the new . Follow us on social media: Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Breaking Through
In a meeting at work last week, my colleague told the story of how she recently took her son, age 17, to his first concert, Kim Deal at the Brooklyn Paramount. She was so excited to blow his mind, to introduce him to the magic of live music that she'd discovered at 15 when she first went to a rock show herself. How cool, I thought, imagining her son, forevermore when asked 'What was the first band you saw live?' getting to answer that he went with his mom to see a rock icon like Deal, bassist and frontwoman of the indisputably hip bands the Pixies and the Breeders. This occasioned everyone at the meeting revealing the first band they saw in concert. Perhaps more than any other bit of personal trivia, I find this one fascinating. You learn about their teenage tastes in music. If their parents took them, you learn something about their childhoods. ('Oh, he had the kind of parents who took their 6-year-old to see Steely Dan!') My colleagues' first concerts were impressive: Duran Duran, R.E.M. on the 'Monster' tour. Mine was the English rock band Squeeze, age 15, third row, Madison Square Garden. And people love to tell you about their first concerts. It's a jewel box of a question, an invitation to reveal something unique about themselves , to tell a well-practiced personal story. They get to convey as much or as little about your taste as you feel comfortable with — 'See, I've always been cool' or 'God, look what a dork I was.' It's the perfect specimen of that most reviled form of corporate get-to-know-you activity: the icebreaker. I have, over the past few days, conducted an unscientific but wholly convincing study of my friends' feelings about icebreakers. They all, to a person, hate them. I get it. On their face, team-building exercises of any sort should be treated with suspicion. Icebreakers are meant to loosen people up. How loose, one might wonder wisely, is it ever appropriate to get at work? We're going around the table stating our favorite breakfast cereals, innocuous enough, but I'm not sure I want to reveal anything more intimate than that to the entire marketing department. But, as cheesy as they can be in a work context (is there anything more humiliating than trying to conjure 'a fun fact about yourself'?), I will defend a good icebreaker as a delightful shortcut to a measured intimacy. In a past job where I ran a weekly staff meeting, I began each meeting with an icebreaker. A good portion of my team was remote, before remote work was normal, and it seemed impossible that we were going to get comfortable with one another without some kind of corny intervention. I may be deluding myself, but once the team members got to know one another a little, the icebreakers became a fun parlor game, a way to get closer, to remind ourselves that we were interesting, dynamic human beings even in the matrix of the workplace. Looking back at my icebreakers from those weekly meetings, I see in my notes questions I have no idea how the people closest to me would answer, and I'm tempted to ask them. Some of these questions I devised myself, some came from the writer Rob Walkers's newsletter 'The Art of Noticing,' some came from the team. 'What's the first thing you bought with your own money?' 'What were you doing at 23?' 'What's something you're great at but hate doing?' 'What are the most common things people say when you tell them your hometown?' It might feel awkward or artificial to pose these questions in the middle of a regular conversation, but it might be fun to deliberately ask an icebreaker of your family at dinner, or a group of friends about whom you think you know everything, or your spouse. For those of us who understand the utility of small talk but deplore the slow, inefficient on-ramp of get-to-know-you questions — where are you from, what do you do, any siblings? — icebreakers do just what they claim to. You can wait for the ice to melt, or you can just smash it with a question that gets at something actually a little interesting, a little revealing. And you don't have to call them icebreakers. Outside of a corporate framework, icebreakers are just manifestations of curiosity. What do you really want to know about the person you're talking to? Why not just ask them? 🎬 'A Minecraft Movie' (Friday): This movie will have references — to things like water buckets, Creepers and Ender pearls — that go over your head. But they'll delight the kids in your moviegoing party. Hopefully the high jinks of Jack Black and Jason Momoa bumbling through a video game realm prove entertaining enough that even the newbies can enjoy their time in the Overworld. Earl Grey Tea Cake For a not-too-sweet dessert that will keep well into the week, there's Samantha Seneviratne's moist and tender Earl Grey tea cake with dark chocolate and orange zest. Its subtle floral-citrus scent comes from loose tea leaves stirred into the buttery cake batter, which is also liberally speckled with chopped dark chocolate. Serve thick wedges after dinner or for a midafternoon snack, preferably accompanied by a pot of Earl Grey tea. The Hunt: A couple with a $350,000 budget searched for a home on the sea. Which boat did they choose? Play our game. At home with: See inside the spacious Potomac, Md., home of a film producer couple. What you get for $55,000: A 1912 Queen Anne Revival house in Harpers Ferry, W.V.; a condo in an 1840 house in Charleston, S.C.; or a shingled house in New Bedford, Mass. Mortgages: Trump administration officials are ramping up talks of privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is what it will mean for home buyers. Click here to read this weekend's edition of T, The New York Times Style Magazine. Art of craft: Nails are the canvas for her mind-boggling creations. Manhattan: T.J. Byrnes, a no-frills Irish pub in the Financial District, has started attracting the young and hip. Digital art, IRL: Qualeasha Wood incorporates distorted self-portraits and internet memes into her tapestries. Lexicon: The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including 'gigil,' a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. Achy knees? This exercise can help. How to become a birder without going birding If you feel called to bask in the springtime delight that is bird-watching, but don't have the time to camp out and patiently spy, consider setting up a smart bird feeder. Our favorites look just like regular feeders, but they come equipped with cameras that capture high-quality, up-close shots of avian visitors. They'll send you smartphone alerts when birds come by, and even record videos or photos of their escapades — perfect for sparking some joy in your group chats. Also: We've spotted deals on both of our top-pick feeders as part of this weekend's spring sales. — Brittney Ho Notre Dame vs. TCU, women's N.C.A.A. tournament: Notre Dame's past three seasons have ended in the Sweet Sixteen round. Can it avoid the same fate this year? The Irish defense has been great, thanks in large part to Hannah Hidalgo, the ACC's defensive player of the year. But TCU's offense can be tough to stop when Hailey Van Lith gets her pick-and-roll game going with Sedona Prince. Today at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN Here is today's Spelling Bee. Yesterday's pangrams were headphone and openhanded. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed this week's headlines. And here are today's Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku, Connections, Sports Connections and Strands. 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