"A lot of dark stuff" on new Foo Fighters album

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl told MTV on Friday (July 30th) that a song on the new Foos album called "Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)" is not a slam on the current trend of "emo" bands led by groups like Fall Out Boy. Instead, Grohl explained, "The title has nothing to do with the song -- it's placed right in the middle of the record, where there's a lot of dark stuff...I felt the album needed something to sit in the center and balance it. So we had this lighthearted song, and I called it 'Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)' because it seemed like a little ray of hope in the middle of all this despair."

Grohl said that the new Foos record, titled Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, is a "pretty heavy" effort, adding, "We have moments of kick-you-in-the-teeth rock stuff, but there's a lot of power in that lower dynamic too. To be able to get a room to pin-drop silence with an acoustic song that means something is sometimes even more powerful than all the lights and lasers and amps in the world."

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is due to arrive on September 25th, to be followed by a North American tour. The first single, "The Pretender," heads to rock radio next week.