Foo Fighters Storm Back With Bombastic ‘Asking For a Friend’ Single, Announce 2026 North American Stadium Dates

The Foo Fighters are gearing up for their adjacent era. After teasing a typically hard-hitting caller song earlier this period with a little fist-pumping instrumental snippet, the seasoned Dave Grohl-led set dropped the blistering “Asking For a Friend” azygous connected Thursday greeting (Oct. 23).

The opus opens with a gentle guitar fig and Grohl singing, “Save your promises until we conscionable again/ You tin prevention each your promises until the bitter end/ What is real, I’m asking for a friend/ What is real, I’m asking for a friend.” Then, arsenic is their wont, the loud-quiet-even-louder set explodes into a elephantine riff mania, with Grohl howling, “Or is this the end?” arsenic the opus picks up steam.

Over pounding drums and layers of guitar, Grohl pleads, “Lay your interest down/ Save your promises til we conscionable again/ Save each your promises until the bitter end,” aboriginal wondering, “when you’re alone, americium I a portion of you?/ Am I a portion of you?,” earlier assuring, “You’re not alone/ I americium a portion of you/ When I’m isolated from you.” The four-and-a-half-minute song’s see-saw travel explodes astatine the three-minute mark, picking up the gait and launching into a blitz of howling Grohl vocals and a barrage of speed-metal-like riffs arsenic it sprints to a close.

At property clip a spokesperson for the set had not returned Billboard‘s petition for confirmation that erstwhile Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin plays connected the track, though artwork for the song posted by the set connected their Instagram connected Wednesday (Oct. 22) included Rubin’s photograph alongside the different members.

The acheronian rocker is simply a follow-up to the much upbeat erstwhile one-off single, the affectional “Today’s Song,” and, aft playing a bid of intimate nine shows with Rubin, the radical besides announced the archetypal dates of their 2026 Take Cover stadium tour, their archetypal tally of stadium gigs since the 2023-2024 Everything oregon Nothing astatine All run.

The circuit is slated to footwear disconnected connected Aug. 4 astatine Rogers Stadium successful Toronto and past deed Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Nashville, Washington, D.C., Fargo, N.D., Regina, Saskatchewan, Edmonton and Vancouver earlier wrapping up astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas. Queens of the Stone Age volition unfastened each the dates but for the Fargo stop, with Mannequin Pussy and Gouge Away besides lined up to execute connected prime dates. A merchandise announcing the shows suggested that “many much shows” are connected the horizon.

A wide on-sale for each shows volition motorboat connected Friday (Oct.31) astatine 10 a.m. section time, with details disposable here. Fans tin Read Entire Article