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Dave Grohl’s New ‘Favorite Band’ Are Fellow Grunge Icons From the 90s

Dave Grohl is rediscovering one of the ‘Big Four’ of grunge.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Dave Grohl has a new “favorite band,” and he’s only “35 years” late to the party. During a conversation with Zane Lowe for The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music, the former Nirvana drummer shared that he’s recently become a huge fan of an iconic grunge band he came up with in the early 90s.

While chatting with Lowe, Grohl covered a plethora of topics, including his band the Foo Fighters’ new album, Your Favorite Toy. At one point, the conversation turned toward what Grohl is listening to now. Surprisingly, he revealed that he has a “newfound love for Alice In Chains.”

“They’re like my favorite band now,” he went on to tell Lowe, as transcribed by Loudwire. “They should have been 35 years ago, but now I’m like, ‘Wait, where was I on that one?’”

“Every song you hear becomes like a strand in your DNA; those lyrics and those songs become a part of you,” Grohl went on to........

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