Foo Fighters at work on new music

Foo Fighters have just barely started touring behind their most recent album, 2007's Grammy-winning Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, but already the band's creative juices are flowing again. Bassist Nate Mendel told us that the group is getting a jump on its next CD: "We're already working on songs. Got a handful of 'em already that we're working on at soundcheck, which has never really happened, so we're getting a headstart. The band's in a good place. Everyone's really excited about it, excited about making music, so we're already getting going."

Mendel expects the band to be on tour through the end of this year, so it's unlikely that we'd see a new Foo Fighters album until at least mid-2009.

The current Foo Fighters tour wraps up on March 30th in Vancouver, but the band will return to the U.S. this summer.

Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammys on February 10th, and also landed two 2008 Brit Awards last week for Best International Album and Best International Band

RollingStone.com reported last week that Foo Fighters are suing Marvel Comics for copyright infringement, claiming that the company used "substantial excerpts" of its songs "Best of You" and "Free Me" in a trailer for a new animated series called Wolverine and the X-Men.