Foo Fighters have put out a canopy of I Don’t Wanna Hear It by hardcore luminaries Minor Risk.
The post-grunge icons recorded their tackle the 80-second 1981 track over thirty years, with the devices being tracked in 1995 and vocals being performed earlier this 12 months.
The band launched the duvet as a part of their Thirtieth-anniversary celebrations, #FF30, and comes with a music video that includes images from throughout their three-decade historical past. They’ve additionally revealed a Substack telling the tales behind every of their 11 studio albums to mark the event, and so they have a handful of Asian and Central American reside dates set for October and November.
I Don’t Wanna Hear It is the primary piece of recorded music Foo Fighters have put out since their final album, 2023’s However Right here We Are. The band have been rocked by controversy since that launch, first after frontman Dave Grohl admitted in September 2024 that he had fathered a baby outdoors of his marriage.
In Might, Foo Fighters fired drummer Josh Freese, nearly two years after he joined them full-time and changed the late Taylor Hawkins. Freese stated on social media that he was “a bit shocked and disillusioned” by the dismissal, and he claimed that he was not given a cause for being let go. The band haven’t publicly commented on the matter nor introduced their subsequent drummer.
The drums on I Don’t Wanna Hear It had been recorded by Grohl, who in 1995 fulfilled not simply his present roles as vocalist and guitarist in Foo Fighters, but additionally performed bass and drums. He recorded the whole thing of the band’s 1995 self-titled debut album by himself, aside from one guitar half on the track X-Static that was performed by Greg Dulli, and served as producer.
Foo Fighters will return to the stage at Carnaval Ancol in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 2. They’ll then play a present in Singapore and two dates in Japan, earlier than flying to Mexico for a efficiency at Corona Capital in Mexico Metropolis on November 14. Get all the main points on their reside plans by way of their web site.
I Don’t Wanna Hear It initially got here out in June 1981, as a part of Minor Risk’s self-titled EP. It was later included on the 1984 compilation of the identical identify and 1989’s Full Discography. A demo model may be heard on 2003’s First Demo Tape.
Minor Risk had been solely lively from 1980 to 1983 however have had a permanent affect on hardcore tradition, together with the ‘straight edge’ motion, named after certainly one of their songs. Frontman Ian MacKaye fashioned the post-hardcore band Fugazi in 1986.
In Grohl’s biography This Is A Name, written by Paul Brannigan, MacKaye revealed that he approached Grohl to hitch Fugazi. Nevertheless, Grohl declined as he was a member of Washington DC punks Scream on the time.
