Foo Fighters Debut Several New Songs At Surprise Show

It’s been a little over three years since we’ve heard new material from the Foo Fighters, but it appears the band has finished gathering artillery, and are returning to fight once again.

That’s exactly what happened last night at a tiny rock club in Los Angeles called Paladino’s, where Dave Grohl and company played a last minute secret show to the ecstatic delight of fans eagerly awaiting the band’s return.

The set was filled with many Foo hits such as Times Like These, The Pretender, Generator, Learn to Fly, My Hero and For All the Cows, while new material included the songs White Limo, Dear Rosemary and Back and Forth.  Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic took up an accordion and joined the band onstage for another new song, I Should Have Known, which he reportedly also plays on the Foo’s upcoming new album.

Grohl told the crowd that the new record, due out in Spring 2011, may end up being called Back and Forth. Recent reports confirm that the band is nearly finished mixing the album, and Grohl has tweeted that it is their “most rocking record” to date. Check out a dry-erase board from the studio, charting the new record’s progress:

According to that ever-reliable “unnamed source,” there isn’t an acoustic guitar on the entire record. The album (the Foo Fighters’ seventh) was recorded with producer Butch Vig at the renowned knob-turner’s studio. Grohl decided to “keep it real” this time around by mandating that the new record would only be recorded on analog tape.

2011 will be a busy year for Foo Fighters. In addition to the new album, they’ve also booked several live dates including the Sasquatch Festival in Gorge, Washington, the Isle of Wight in the U.K. and T in the Park in Scotland.