{"id":3260,"date":"2025-06-30T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/foo-fighters-minor-threat-cover\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:13:06","slug":"foo-fighters-minor-threat-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/foo-fighters-minor-threat-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Reveal 80-Second Minor Threat Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/05\/GettyImages-1239309285-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Foo Fighters\"><\/figure>\n<p>Foo Fighters\u2019 first \u201cnew\u201d music since their 2023 album <em>But Here We Are<\/em> is, appropriately, an 80-second cover of iconic Washington D.C. hardcore band Minor Threat\u2019s 1981 song \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Hear It.\u201d The instrumental for the new version, which arrived on YouTube this morning (June 30) but is not yet on streaming services, was recorded in 1995 and frontman Dave Grohl added vocals this year.<\/p>\n<p>Grohl was reared in the D.C. underground music scene and released music with his pre-Nirvana band Scream on Dischord Records, which was founded by Minor Threat\u2019s Ian MacKaye. Despite this, the Foos have rarely covered acts from that era, preferring to more frequently trot out classic rock songs by Queen and David Bowie, AC\/DC, Queen and Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/kendrick-tyler-nas-clipse-album\/\">Kendrick, Tyler, Nas Jump Aboard Clipse Comeback Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/fishbone-still-have-a-bone-to-pick\/\">Fishbone Still Have a Bone to Pick<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/from-songwriter-to-superstar-neton-vegas-meteoric-rise-in-musica-mexicana\/\">From Songwriter to Superstar: Net\u00f3n Vega\u2019s Meteoric Rise in M\u00fasica Mexicana<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2015, MacKaye revealed that he\u2019d found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2015\/05\/ian-mackaye-dave-grohl-fan-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">old fan letter<\/a>\u00a0from a teenaged Grohl, asking for \u201csome numbers of people to get in touch with.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/foofighters\/status\/603975634344255488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E603975634344255488%7Ctwgr%5E8141bde9fb86dd2bcd2d57c67430f2c7ed58bcb1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spin.com%2F2015%2F05%2Fian-mackaye-dave-grohl-fan-mail%2F\" target=\"_blank\">The note<\/a> included his phone number and the hours that he could be reached \u2014 between 3:00 and 10:00 pm. Grohl later gushed to <em>NME<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m telling you, if the Foos could do a Dischord single, then we could break up. Done deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Hear It\u201d arrives amid the impending 30th anniversary on July 4 of the band\u2019s self-titled debut, which has been teased with a <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Substack page<\/a> featuring rare images and contemporary recollections about the Foos\u2019 career.<\/p>\n<p>Grohl and company will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/foo-fighters-chappell-roan-corona-capital\/\">return to the road<\/a> Oct. 2 in Jakarta, marking their first shows following drummer Josh Freese\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/foo-fighters-josh-freese\/\">sudden departure<\/a> earlier this year. No replacement has been named.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"c9t7ds06_iQ\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foo Fighters\u2019 first \u201cnew\u201d music since their 2023 album But Here We Are is, appropriately, an 80-second cover of iconic Washington D.C. hardcore band Minor Threat\u2019s 1981 song \u201cI Don\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,142,2222,2223,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dave-grohl","category-foo-fighters","category-ian-mackaye","category-minor-threat","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}