Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin cowl Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Karen O for 2022 ‘Hanukkah Periods’
Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have launched the sixth instalment of this 12 months’s Hanukkah Periods sequence, recruiting Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O for a raucous playthrough of ‘Heads Will Roll’.
Like all the opposite movies on this 12 months’s sequence, the efficiency was filmed dwell at a secret present in Los Angeles. There – on Monday December 5 the super-intimate Largo venue – the Foo Fighters chief and legendary producer performed 9 songs with a slew of particular company. All earnings earned from ticket gross sales, too, had been donated to the Anti-Defamation League.
Up to now, Grohl and Kurstin launched their covers of ‘Spinning Wheel’ by Blood, Sweat & Tears (that includes comic/director Judd Apatow), ‘Get This Social gathering Began’ by Pink (with Pink herself), ‘The Issues We Do For Love’ by 10cc (with Kurstin’s The Chook And The Bee bandmate Inara George), ‘At Seventeen’ by Janis Ian (with Grohl’s daughter Violet) and ‘E-Professional’ by Beck (with Beck himself).
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This 12 months’s Hanukkah Periods sequence is the primary that Grohl and Kurstin have carried out dwell for an viewers; the primary two editions had been each tracked in Kurstin’s dwelling studio.
Nonetheless to be launched are the pair’s takes on ‘The Spirit Of Radio’ by Rush (which they carried out alongside each members of Tenacious D, Jack Black and Kyle Glass), Randy Newman’s ‘I Love L.A.’ (re-titled to ‘We Love L.A.’ and that includes all the sequence’ earlier company) and the David Lee Roth model of ‘Simply A Gigolo’ (once more that includes Beck).
Launched to rejoice songs by Jewish musicians, the primary sequence was drip-fed over the Hanukkah season of 2020. It noticed Grohl and Kurstin crew as much as cowl songs by Drake, the Beastie Boys, Peaches, Bob Dylan, Mountain, Elastica, The Knack and The Velvet Underground.
The sequence returned final 12 months, with Grohl and Kurstin protecting tracks from Billy Joel, Van Halen, Barry Manilow, Lisa Loeb, the Ramones, Amy Winehouse, The Conflict and KISS. Although initially launched on YouTube, each sequence had been made obtainable on streaming platforms final December.