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Classical Music: 2021 was a year of reawakening for the art form.

Jazz Albums: Even the big-statement albums this year had a feeling of intense closeness.

Pop Albums: Recordings with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.

Best Songs: A posthumous political statement and a superstar’s 10-minute redo are among the 66 best tracks of 2021.

“I could always tell when a chorus was coming by watching Kurt’s dirty Converse sneaker as it moved closer and closer to the distortion pedal,” writes Grohl, “and just before he stomped on the button, I would blast into a single-stroke snare roll with all of my might, like a fuse burning fast into the heart of a bomb, signaling the change.”įrom Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year. Processing the group’s stratospheric success - “the rickety carnival ride that had once been our little group started spinning faster and faster” - will be a lifelong effort, but some of the most powerful moments are the most specifically musical. The Nirvana years don’t occupy a lot of space in “The Storyteller,” but they’re inevitably the emotional core of Grohl’s tale.

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The challenge for Grohl is that he has been so prolific across so many different media that some stories and themes are already familiar to his fans: We’ve heard about his devotion to the bonding power of “van tours” in a couple of documentaries, his work in (and acquisition of the audio board from) the historic Sound City studios in another project - even his deep bond with his mother was the basis for a TV series. Bush, listening in while Paul McCartney gives Grohl’s daughter her first piano lesson. Along the way, of course, high jinks ensue - backing up Iggy Pop as a fledgling punk drummer, singing for former President George W.

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If you do manage to get to the top of the charts, how do you stay there? What does it take to create a career out of making noise, and what might that look and sound like? A batch of new books addresses these questions from a variety of perspectives.Īs its title indicates, “The Storyteller” is a series of anecdotes, taking us from the singer/songwriter/guitarist/drummer’s childhood in suburban Virginia through his discovery of punk rock, ascension to superstardom with Nirvana, and formation and leadership of Foo Fighters, who were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“I would aspire to become the rusted-out hot rod, no matter how many jump-starts I might require along the way.”Įvery musician faces some version of this decision. Grohl made a choice on the spot about which path he would take as an aging rock star. Wiry gray hair, deep lines carved into a scowl, teeth that could have belonged to George Washington, and a black T-shirt that hugged a barrel-chested frame.” “Perfectly dyed hair, spray tan, and a recently refurbished smile that had the look of a fresh box of Chiclets.” The other resembled “a vintage, burned-out hot rod. “One had the shiny appearance of a brand-new luxury car,” he writes.

In the opening pages of THE STORYTELLER: Tales of Life and Music (Dey Street, 384 pp., $29.99), Dave Grohl, frontman for the Foo Fighters, recounts running into two unnamed legends backstage at the “12-12-12” benefit concert that followed Hurricane Sandy.