{"id":252470,"date":"2026-01-26T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:15:07","slug":"dave-grohl-confirms-the-new-foo-fighters-album-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252470\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl confirms the new Foo Fighters album is finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/dave-grohl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Grohl<\/a> has revealed that the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/foo-fighters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foo Fighters<\/a> album is all done.<\/p>\n<p>The frontman made the exciting announcement onstage at the UTAS Stadium in Launceston, Australia on Saturday night (January 24), as part of the band\u2019s Take Cover 2026 tour. Towards the end of a killer 22-song set, Dave not only told their Tasmanian fans that they\u2019d be coming back again before his next birthday (which is January 14 \u2013 make a note for your diaries, people), but also that, \u201cWe might have a whole new record of fucking songs that we just finished the other day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/album-review-foo-fighters-but-here-we-are\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023\u2019s incredible, 5\/5-rated But Here We Are<\/a>, Foos dropped new single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/foo-fighters-new-single-asking-for-a-friend-dave-grohl-2026-north-american-stadium-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asking For A Friend in October 2025<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/foo-fighters-30th-anniversary-new-single-todays-song-taylor-hawkins-josh-freese-dave-grohl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today\u2019s Song back in July<\/a>. They\u2019ve got some big touring plans throughout 2026, so let\u2019s see if they start dropping new material into any upcoming setlists\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Via @foofighterslive, watch Dave\u2019s announcement below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl has revealed that the new Foo Fighters album is all done. The frontman made the exciting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-252470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}