From Spin magazine:

Foo Fighters are holed up in a Reseda, California warehouse recording two albums - one acoustic set of "the trippiest, most beautiful sleepy music we've ever made," and one collection of "the most rocking stuff we've ever worked on," Dave Grohl told a British reporter. The double-disc set is scheduled for a summer release.



A double-dose of the Foos! I can't wait!

Disc 1:

Disc 2:

I don't know which disc excites me more! Another album to add to my list for '05.

AND, what makes this even more interesting for me is that John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is guesting on their new album.

"Former LED ZEPPELIN bassist John Paul Jones has recorded a guest appearance on the new FOO FIGHTERS album, due on June 8.

"We have a few guests that are playing on the record," Grohl told the Edmonton Sun. "I put (Jones) on our wish list of guests and he actually responded and said that he would do it. And so I talked to him on the phone. Great guy. Nicest guy in the world. And then I got an e-mail the next day saying, 'Hey, if you'd like you can sit with us at our table for the lifetime achievement awards.'

"It was unbelievable. It was pretty surreal."

ZEPPELIN got a lifetime achievement award on Saturday, their first Grammy.

"Robert Plant didn't show but it was amazing," said Grohl, who is also guesting himself on new albums by NINE INCH NAILS and GARBAGE."

minneapolisgenius said:

Is he playing bass on the CD, or did he do the string arrangement, like he did on Automatic for the People?

JPJ's string arrangement on Automatic for the People

Axchi696 said:

I don't think anyone knows yet. I was wondering if he'd do arrangement, keys, or bass. Although I did read a comment from Grohl earlier in the week that went something like, "John Paul Jones was in the studio recording with us yesterday..." so I just assumed it was either bass or keys.

minneapolisgenius said:

Sweeeet.

OdysseyMiles said:

More info from MTV news:


The Foo Fighters have been pretty busy lately ... but you probably haven't noticed.

Maybe that's because since November they've been holed up in a super-secret Reseda, California, studio (dubbed "Studio 606" by the Foos — and they can
call it whatever they want, since they built it), working on their still-untitled double album (see "Foo Fighters Take Busy Spring Break With Side Projects"). It's not such a secret place, though, that a few of their friends couldn't find it.

Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Norah Jones and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme will all guest on the still-untitled album, which, according to Foo guitarist Chris Shiflett, will be an "extravaganza."

"We're all pretty stoked on how it sounds, and everyone's amped to get back on the road and try it live," he wrote in a very excited post on FooFighters.com. "We started tracking the rock stuff first, then moved on to the mellow sh--, which is almost done, and now we're back to the rock.

"None other than John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame came by to play some Mellotron, piano and mandolin on a few tracks. Of course, we managed to sneak in a few Zeppelin trivia questions and he even riffed 'Kashmir' on the Mellotron for a minute," Shiflett continued. "We had yet another special guest in the studio yesterday. None other than Norah Jones! Her song is on the 'mellow' disc and it's got a really cool Elvis Costello vibe to it. Her voice is beautiful and fits the song really nice."

According to Shiflett, the band has recorded "over 40" songs, of which around 20 will make it to the double album. The next step will be recording a few overdubs and some vocals, which will be done at the end of the month. Then it's on to the final mix.

But is hasn't all been hard work — there's also been a whole lot of in-studio eating and reading going on, which Shiflett also details in his posts, along with other topics such as the ping-pong prowess of his fellow Foos.

"I'm terrible at it, but Dave [Grohl]'s really good. [Drummer] Taylor [Hawkins] has chops, but you can get him excited and take him off his game," Shiflett wrote. "[Bassist] Nate [Mendel] is the stone cold killer on the table. Okay, that's not true, but he's pretty good."

This report is from MTV News

This is great news! Though Im kind of bewildered on how Norah Jones will fit into the picture. Hey they pulled off a collaboration with Chick Corea, so I guess anything is possible.

I can't wait to hear their "mellow" album, especially after seeing their live DVD. During the performance of Have It All, they go into a great instrumental thats very trippy.

Tom said:

I dig that Live DVD (Anywhere But Home). The Chick Corea collabo on "Times Like These" at last year's Grammys was great. The album sounds like a lot of fun.

OdysseyMiles said:

And Jonesy on mandolin as well! He's an amazing mandolin player.