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April 21, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Dream Widow: Dream Widow

Dream Widow Dream Widow Roswell Records, Inc., under exclusive license to RCA Records When news dropped of Dave Grohl’s latest project / metal folly, I was curious. I’m a fairweather fan at best (of Grohl I mean, not metal). I love the idea of Dave Grohl doing great things, I was into the early Foo […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Dave Grohl, Dream Widow, Dream Widow: Dream Widow, Foo Fighters, metal, Self-Titled, Studio 666, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Tribute ·

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August 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Dee Gees / Foo Fighters: Hail Satin / Live

Dee Gees / Foo Fighters Hail Satin / Live Roswell Records, Inc., under exclusive license to RCA Records This is how the Foo Fighters chose to commemorate 25 years of existence. Tongue in cheek, but also painfully earnest covers of disco-era Bee Gees. They called themselves the Dee Gees which is probably hilarious. They called […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bee Gees, Covers, Dave Grohl, Dee Gees / Foo Fighters, Dee Gees / Foo Fighters: Hail Satin / Live, disco, Hail Satin, Hail Satin / Live, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Live, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock

Bob Mould Sunshine Rock Merge Records A few short years ago I thought Beauty & Ruin was one of the best things Bob Mould had ever done – and I’d hope that was saying something given the bands he made and played in ahead of his busy-enough, solid-af solo career.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beauty & Ruin, Bob Mould, Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Grant Hart, Husker Du, Jason Narducy, Jon Wurster, Merge Records, Patch The Sky, Silver Age, Sugar, Sunshine Rock, Superchunk, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 222 – Foo Fighters, Sydney, 2018

It wasn’t that I was desperate to see the Foo Fighters again – although I was curious (call it a perverse ‘professional curiosity’ if you like…) I saw the Foos when they had only just formed and were rather good. I saw them again, two albums later, as part of a Big Day Out. And they were quite shit. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Aussie, Australia, Concert, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Foos, Gig, Live Gig, Live Gig Review, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 222, Stubs: # 222 – Foo Fighters, Sydney, Weezer ·

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January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)

Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), AC/DC, Alice Cooper, ANZ Stadium, Aussie, Australia, Co-Headlining Tour, Concrete & Gold, Covers, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, Drum Solo, Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters & Weezer, Frontier, Frontier Touring, Gig Review, Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, January 27, Live, Live Gig, Live Gig Review, Live Music, Pat Smear, Queen, Ramones, Review, Rivers Cuomo, Spectacle, Stadium, Sydney, Sydney Olympic Park, Taylor Hawkins, Weezer, Weezer & Foo Fighters ·

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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle To Stage

From Cradle to Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars Virginia Hanlon Grohl Seal Press Nepotism meets meta-prank – or something? – as Dave Grohl’s mother rolls out a book just in time for Mother’s Day…
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, From Cradle To Stage, From Cradle to Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars, Interviews, Mom, Mother's Day, Mothers, Mum, Mums, Nirvana, Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle To Stage ·

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January 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York

So I just watched Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York on DVD. This is a classic concert – an important concert to me. I’m not sure how great it is as I have a rather biased view towards Nirvana. I’m not their biggest fan. I think Kurt Cobain was often a bit of a twit. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bleach, Dave Grohl, DVD, In Utero, Incesticide, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Meat Puppets, MTV, MTV Unplugged, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nevermind, New York, Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Songwriter, Unplugged, Vinyl ·

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January 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 763

Sonic Youth, Washing Machine (1995) I became a fan of Sonic Youth by reading about them: Guitar World, an excellent article where the guitarists talked about anti-guitar hero antics and notions, namedropped a bunch of great things (some I’d heard, some I hadn’t) and just generally made me want to hear their music. And I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1995, 1996, 2xLP, Dave Grohl, Double Record, Foo Fighters, LP, Record, Sonic Youth, The Vinyl Countdown # 763, Vinyl, Washing Machine ·

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December 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 35 – Them Crooked Vultures, Wellington, 2010

It was the night after AC/DC – and there must have been a lot of people that went to both shows; all excited too. And I had written a pretty positive review of AC/DC as it was a good stadium show – they did what they do. And well. And then there I was the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Dave Grohl, Gig, John Paul Jones, Josh Homme, Live Gig, Reviewing, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 35 – Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures, Wellington ·

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September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Olivier Libaux: Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age

Olivier Libaux Uncovered: Queens of the Stone Age Inertia Records/Border Here the main man from Nouvelle Vague does the decent thing – an act of kindness for humanity – and makes a wee set of silk purses from the sows’ ears Queens of the Stone Age call songs. If you know his trick, his Bossa […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Border, Covers, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Olivier Libaux, Queens Of The Stone Age, Uncovered ·

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July 22, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Queens of the Stone Age: Like Clockwork

Queens of the Stone Age …Like Clockwork Matador Records Good lord this new Queens of the Stone Age record is fucking boring init? I assume it’s the rather shite state of rock that has allowed for Josh Homme and his floating crew that he bands together  now and then to make records and have them […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged ...Like Clockwork, Album Review, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Queens Of The Stone Age ·

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March 25, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Sound City: A film by Dave Grohl

Sound City Director: Dave Grohl Gravitas Ventures The documentary Sound City will be gushed over by many simply because Dave Grohl is the director and narrator; it’s his pet-project. It is – for the most part – a well-intentioned look at the titular recording studio, a hovel that helped to create some of rock’s enduring […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Dave Grohl, Documentary, DVD Review, Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Sound City ·
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