The Foo Fighters are playing Missoula's Adams Center with Motorhead and Biffy Clyro on Thursday, May 26.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. The show is being presented by Knitting Factory Presents. Tickets are $49.50 and go on sale Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. Tickets are available at GrizTix.com, by phone at 888-MONTANA and at the Source at the University Center.

The Foo Fighters sixth studio album "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" is now out and its 12 tracks showcase the band's strengths and its diversity. Led by Dave Grohl, the band includes bassist Nate Mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins and guitarist Chris Shiflett.

"Everyone in the band has become a better writer and a better player," Grohl says. "This record is the sound of us realizing that we're capable of things we never were before. It sounds fearless. But that also made the process more difficult. Breaking away from any kind of boundaries meant we were writing everything from country to old-school metal to piano and string arrangements, which meant we didn't know what kind of album this was until it was finally done."

The formation of Foo Fighters as a band is hard to pin down to a concrete date or circumstance. 1995's now-classic self-titled debut itself evolving from home recordings of compositions created largely during Grohl's tenure in Nirvana.

Contact Jaci Webb at 657-1359 or jwebb@billingsgazette.com

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