Overview
- In a new Mojo interview, Grohl says losing Hawkins “threw our world upside down” and that he still struggles to make sense of it.
- Grohl describes being “afraid of silence” after 2022, acknowledging he leaned on music as a coping tool.
- He links the band’s response to the way making music helped after Kurt Cobain’s death, saying it “saved us once before.”
- After bringing in Josh Freese in 2023, the band replaced him in 2025 with Ilan Rubin, while Nine Inch Nails added Freese in a near-simultaneous swap.
- Foo Fighters’ new album, Your Favorite Toy, is due April 24, with a U.S. tour starting April 28 in Bridgeport and summer stadium shows planned.