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This Is a Call: Foo Fighters will return on April 24th with a new album called Your Favorite Toy. To coincide with today’s announcement, they’ve unleashed the title track as the latest teaser.
Your Favorite Toy serves as Foo Fighters’ 12th album. It’s their first with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who took over for Josh Freese behind the kit in 2025. The album was co-produced by Foo Fighters alongside Oliver Roman, engineered by Roman, and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent. It’s their first record since 2023’s But Here We Are, which arrived a little over a year after the death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The band has also offered “Your Favorite Toy,” the title track and second new song from the album following last fall’s “Asking for a Friend.” With a restless tempo, a mix of acoustic and electric guitar, a dance-forward groove from Rubin, and heavily distorted vocals from Dave Grohl, “Your Favorite Toy” lands in much catchier territory than their recent work; in fact, it feels like a clean combination of the danceable rock stylings from 2021’s Medicine at Midnight (including a bluesy nod to setlist staple “No Son of Mine”) and the raw, grittier sound of But Here We Are.
Though his vocals are cloaked in distortion, Grohl is downright bratty on “Your Favorite Toy,” sneering and spitting and letting his melodies unspool and fall away. “Get back/ Hear that, boy?/ Someone threw away your favorite toy for good,” he barks in the chorus, practically daring the listener to riot. It’s nice to hear Grohl embrace a more sardonic, cheeky persona (though not so cheeky that the ghost of The Dee Gees could emerge); but while the band sounds energized, it’s far from a musical reinvention or a reminder of the band’s hidden capacity for transcendence. Instead, it’s a lightly spicy floor filler, perfectly suited for their live shows and prioritizing more immediate pleasures than the grief-stricken But Here We Are.
“’Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album,” says Grohl of the new song in a press statement. “We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.” Stream “Your Favorite Toy” below.
Foo Fighters will support Your Favorite Toy with their 2026 “Take Cover” tour with Queens of the Stone Age as well as a string of headlining festival appearances. The North American leg of the tour kicks off in Toronto on August 4th, with stadium shows following in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Nashville, and more. The band will also perform a special symphonic concert alongside Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August 22nd, and they’ll headline Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond festival in September. See their tour dates below, and get tickets to see Foo Fighters here.
Your Favorite Toy Artwork:
Your Favorite Toy Tracklist:
01. Caught In The Echo
02. Of All People
03. Window
04. Your Favorite Toy
05. If You Only Knew
06. Spit Shine
07. Unconditional
08. Child Actor
09. Amen, Caveman
10. Asking For A Friend
Foo Fighters 2026-2027 Tour Dates:
05/08 — Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
05/23 — Napa, CA @ BottleRock Napa Valley
06/10 — Oslo, NO @ Unity Arena ^
06/12 — Stockholm, SE @ Strawberry Arena ^
06/15 — Warsaw, PL @ PGE Narodowy ^
06/17 — Munich, DE @ Allianz Arena +
06/19 — Paris, FR @ Paris La Défense Arena +
06/19 — Landgraaf, NL @ Pinkpop Festival
06/25 — Liverpool, UK @ Anfield Stadium +
06/27 — Liverpool, UK @ Anfield Stadium %
07/01 — Berlin, DE @ Olympiastadion =
07/03 — Vienna, AT @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion =
07/05 — Milan, IT @ I-Days Milano Ippodromo Snai La Maura =
07/08 — Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool
07/10 — Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive
08/04 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium *
08/06 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field *
08/08 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field Stadium *
08/10 — Cleveland, OH @ Huntington Bank Field *
08/13 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field *
08/15 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium *
08/17 — Washington, DC @ Nationals Park *
08/22 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl &
09/12 — Fargo, ND @ Fargodome !
09/15 — Regina, CA @ Mosaic Stadium *
09/17 — Edmonton, CA @ Commonwealth Stadium *
09/20 — Vancouver, CA @ BC Place @
09/24 — Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond
09/26 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium @
11/05 — Brisbane, AU @ Suncorp Stadium
11/07 — Townsville, AU @ QLD Country Bank Stadium
11/10 — Sydney, AU @ Accor Stadium
11/12 — Newcastle, AU @ McDonald Jones Stadium
11/14 — Melbourne, AU @ Marvel Stadium
11/17 — Adelaide, AU @ Coopers Stadium
01/19 — Christchurch, NZ @ One New Zealand Stadium
01/22 — Auckland, NZ @ Western Springs Stadium
01/25 — Perth, AU @ HBF Park
# = w/ Full Flower Moon Band, Spooky Eyes
^ = w/ Royel Otis, Otoboke Beaver
+ = w/ Inhaler, Otoboke Beaver
% = w/ Royel Otis, Die Spitz
= = w/ Idles, Fat Dog
* = w/ Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy
! = w/ Mannequin Pussy
@ = w/ Queens of the Stone Age, Gouge Away
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