Tickets are just $30 bucks and must be purchased in person
hFoo Fighters are bringing back their pop-up club shows. The band announced Wednesday plans for two surprise gigs at intimate venues this week. The group will be performing at Irving Plaza in New York tomorrow, April 30, and the Starland Ballroom. Tickets are just $30 and must be purchased in person at the venue. Tickets for both shows go on sale tomorrow, Thursday, April 30 at 10am EST. For the show at Starland Ballroom in New Jersey, fans can start getting in line at the box office when the venue parking lot opens at 4am.
Check out the show flyers below, plus links for more information about each show.
Foo Fighters released their 12th album Your Favorite Toy on April 24 via Roswell Records/RCA. The group previously released three singles – “Of All People,” “Caught in the Echo,” and the title track. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent.
Dave Grohl says, “‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”
Later this year, the band’s massive Take Cover World Tour kicks off June 10 at Unity Arena in Oslo, Norway. It includes U.S. festival headlining appearances at Welcome to Rockville (Florida), Bottlerock (California), and Bourbon & Beyond (Kentucky).
The band’s full upcoming tour itinerary can be found below.
Foo Fighters are now Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee and Ilan Rubin.
This fall, Foo Fighters are returning to Australia and New Zealand for another run of shows. The tour dates begin in November and run through January of 2027. When wrapping up the first leg just a few weeks ago, frontman Dave Grohl told fans that they would be back sooner than expected, most likely with a new album to showcase.
Now, the tour has been booked and the new album has been confirmed.
The band did not start off the year at full strength, however. In a statement released on January 7, the band revealed that guitarist Pat Smear will be missing the band’s first few shows of 2026 after sustaining a significant foot injury. Apparently, Smear has begun the new year by “smashing the shit out of his left foot,” suffering multiple broken bones.
“In the classic tradition of rockstars having bizarre gardening accidents, Pat Smear has apparently rung in the new year by smashing the shit out of his left foot. This means he’ll unfortunately be missing a few shows while the multiple broken bones in his foot heal. We’ll miss our beloved Pat as much as you will, but we want him fully healed and back on his feet as soon as possible.”
The band tapped guitarist Jason Falkner, who has played with the likes of Beck and St. Vincent, to fill in for Pat while he recovers at home.
Good news is that Pat should be good to go for the band’s extensive stadium run across North America, Europe, and the UK this summer.
Last September, Foo Fighters returned to the stage. They surprised fans by playing an intimate club show at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California. For the gig, the band turned back the clock with super cheap tickets that had to be purchased in person. From there, they added additional shows in Santa Ana, California, Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut. Even the merch prices were low like the tickets, and fans were elated at the old school experience.
Additionally, the band appeared to be teasing some new music with the first club show announcement. The graphic that the band shared on social media for the show has a snippet of music playing in the background. The track, while giving some major “All My Life” vibes, could very well be an all-new tune and the follow-up to the recently released “Today’s Song.“
Recently, Foo Fighters released the all-new single “Asking for a Friend,” which will be featured on the upcoming album.
After their club gigs, Foo Fighters headlined the 2025 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Other features acts include Elton John, The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House. The race took place October 3 through October 5 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Additionally, Foo Fighters just wrapped up a string of headlining dates in Indonesia and Japan.
On November 12, Foo Fighters played another huge headlining show in Monterrey, Mexico with a very special guest – Queens of the Stone Age.
The two groups have a storied history, primarily via their frontmen Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). In 2002 Grohl jumped behind the kit for almost every track on Queens of the Stone Age’s breakthrough album Songs for the Deaf. It’s the cornerstone of their bond and set the tone for later collabs.
Later this yea, the two legendary bands are bringing their co-headlining experience to stadiums in North America. The run will make stops in Las Vegas, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Edmonton, Vancouver, and more. Very special guests for the trek will be Mannequin Pussy and Gouge Away on select dates.
For this new album cycle and tour, Foo Fighters tapped former Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin, who had been with NIN since 2009. Subsequently (and ironically), Josh Freese rejoined Nine Inch Nails on the fly for their current North American leg of their Peel It Back World Tour that launched back on August 6 in Oakland, California. Freese had previously been a member of NIN, touring with the group from 2005 to 2008. During that stretch, he recorded drums on the band’s albums Year Zero (2007) and The Slip (2008).
After performing sporadically across North America in 2023, Foo Fighters embarked on a full United States tour last year that kicked off with back-to-back shows at Citi Field in New York on July 17 and July 18. The run wrapped up on August 18 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, where frontman Dave Grohl’s old house recently hit the market.
Revisit our review and live photos from HersheyPark Stadium HERE.
Foo Fighters’ last album, But Here We Are, arrived in June of 2023. The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, and topped Billboard’s Rock and Alternative Albums charts. It marked the band’s first release without late drummer Taylor Hawkins since he joined the band for 1999’s There Is Nothing Left to Lose. Dave Grohl recorded all the drums on But Here We Are.
The album garnered the band three 2024 GRAMMY® Award nominations. The LP But Here We Are was up for Best Rock Album, while the record’s lead single “Rescued” was in the running for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. Metallica and Arctic Monkeys also grabbed three nods each.
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Starland Ballroom Info HERE