Foo Fighters release their 12th album April 24, recorded at Grohl's home, with the title track already atop the rock charts.
Pitchfork and Forbes covered the No. 1 rock chart position and the April 24 release date as straight music news.
Fan accounts are tracking the album rollout single by single, treating each release as a communal event.
Foo Fighters will release "Your Favorite Toy," their twelfth studio album, on April 24. [1] The record was made at Dave Grohl's home studio in Encino, California, a detail the band confirmed when they announced the album in February alongside the title track. [1] That title track has since climbed to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. [2]
The fourth single, "Of All People," arrived on April 11 and has been streaming heavily in its opening weekend. [2] The rollout has been unusually generous for a legacy act: four singles across eight weeks, each with its own video, each building toward an album that RCA Records is positioning as the band's most personal since "Wasting Light" in 2011. [1]
On X, the excitement is granular. Fan accounts are tracking each single's chart performance, debating track listings, and posting countdown clocks. The mood is less "will it be good" and more "it already is" — the kind of pre-release consensus that streaming-era albums rarely generate. [3]
The broader story is simpler. Foo Fighters remain one of the few rock bands that can command a full album cycle — multiple singles, a stadium tour, mainstream chart relevance — in an era when the format has largely collapsed for guitar music. The Take Cover Tour begins in May. The album drops in ten days. The title track is already at No. 1. The machine still works.
-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles