{"id":403548,"date":"2026-04-29T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/403548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:02:15","slug":"alice-in-chains-are-like-my-favorite-band-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/403548\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Chains Are “Like My Favorite Band Now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Grohl<\/a> admits that he slept on Alice in Chains<\/a> during the height of their fame in the \u201990s, and that he has a \u201cnewfound love\u201d for the legendary rock act, even going as far as saying they\u2019re his \u201cfavorite band now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The revelation came during an interview with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe. The conversation came about when Grohl was talking about the incredible vocal abilities of his late Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain and late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Lowe brought up late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, as well, causing Grohl to glow with excitement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOh my God, dude, here\u2019s the best thing about driving around with [my daughters] Violet and Harper in a car: I have this newfound love of Alice in Chains,\u201d said Grohl. \u201cIt\u2019s back. They\u2019re like my favorite band now. They should have been 35 years ago, but now I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait, where was I on that one?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Foo Fighters frontman continued, \u201cEvery song you hear becomes like a strand in your DNA, those lyrics and those songs become a part of you. There\u2019s a huge connectivity in the energy of music just as there is in the connectivity in the energy of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grohl mentioned his daughter Violet, who recently launched her own singing career. As part of Consequence\u2018s current \u201cVocalist Week,\u201d<\/a> Violet named her Top 5 vocalists of all time<\/a>, and included Staley, saying, \u201cI think he\u2019s honestly an underrated vocalist. I don\u2019t think people give him enough credit for how like truly talented he was and how insane his range was. It\u2019s that raw human emotion that comes out and it\u2019s so guttural and it can make you feel so much anger and sadness and pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

This summer, Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates will hit the road on a North American stadium tour<\/a> in support of their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy<\/a>. Tickets are available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, and Chris Cornell each made Consequence\u2018s list of the 100 Best Vocalists of All Time<\/a>. See Dave Grohl\u2019s interview with Zane Lowe in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl admits that he slept on Alice in Chains during the height of their fame in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-403548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403548","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=403548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}