Another year of an amazing three day musical festival in the beautiful Napa Valley. For the last thirteen years, every Memorial Day weekend in the Napa Valley there is a huge celebration of music, called Bottlerock. More than 80 musical acts played on four stages. With plenty of gourmet food and drink to partake in. The musical headliners this year were, Lorde, Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne, Teddy Swims, Sombr, Ludacris and Backstreet Boys. Dave Grohl and Chef Jose Andres This fe

Four years ago, March 25, 2022, the shocking news of the beloved Foo Fighters drummers' unexpected and very premature death. On March 25th 2022 the world got news of the much loved Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins' death. It feels so sad to me that he left us at such an early age at only 50. He was on tour with the Foo Fighters in South America when he died. Taylor joined the Foo Fighters whilst being the drummer for the Alanis Morrisette band. He and Dave met and the '

Happy New Year from The Music Soup! Although I'm not sad to see the back end of 2025, I'd like to mention some high points of my year. One of them at the top was absolutely without a doubt September 21st at Shoreline Amphitheater, covering The Who's farewell show . Standing a couple feet in front of Roger and Pete for the entire show will be one of the fondest memories of my life. This photo, much to my surprise, was captured by Kaari, a Live Nation employee at the Shorelin

Foo Fighters live at BottleRock Napa 2017 I realize this show must have been my first time of many seeing the Foo Fighters play live....