Foo Fighters might be slowly coming out of the hiatus that frontman Dave Grohl imposed late last year, according to Spinner.com. Drummer Taylor Hawkins told the website, "We're writing, working on music intermittently. We've already got together and worked on a little bit of stuff, but very tenatively, just ideas. We're just gonna take our time."

 

Hawkins added that the group might get back to work sooner rather than later just because they like to play together. He explained, "It would be hard for us to go a year without making music together. We have fun being together. That's the whole trip - we still enjoy that, whether it's a Neil Diamond cover or whatever. We still like to get in the jam room."

 

Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel told us that the way the group works when it does get together has not changed in years: "It's really been pretty consistent over the years. Dave writes the songs, and about half the time he'll do a demo on his own, and the other half of the time he'll come in and just play it on guitar. Then (he) shows it to the band and then we sit around and play it and figure out, you know, what kind of song is it gonna be. Is it a country song? Metal song? You know, what the dynamic is, arrangement, tempo, that kind of stuff. We help him finish it out."

 

Grohl said last fall that Foo Fighters were going to take an extended break after completing a year's worth of touring behind 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.

 

Grohl himself has kept busy, most recently playing drums for Paul McCartney during the ex-Beatle's performance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 8th). He and wife Jordyn are also expecting their second child together this spring.

I didn't mind EEchoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. I didn't mind the sort of laidback/acoustic(?) sound it had.