Foo Fighters take "Long Road To Ruin"

Foo Fighters are closing out 2007 and beginning the new year with the release of "Long Road to Ruin," the second single from the band's Grammy-nominated sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. Frontman Dave Grohl told us that the track sums up everything that Foo Fighters are about: "'Long Road to Ruin' is a good example of kind of what we do best, you know. We were raised and weaned on classic rock bands and everything from Cheap Trick to Zeppelin to the Beatles to whatever. So I listen to that song and that song to me just kind of has a lot of those elements in it. Not necessarily those bands, but just that simple, melodic rock that gets stuck in your head. That's the kind of stuff I dig."

Foo Fighters have been nominated for five Grammy Awards this year, including Album of the Year for Echoes... and Record of the Year for the CD's first single, "The Pretender."

The band kicks off a North American tour on January 16th in Sunrise, Florida, with dates plotted through early March.

Bassist Nate Mendel told Billboard.com last week that the group will use two different stages, additional musicians and a "huge production" on the tour.
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