{"id":107473,"date":"2025-07-31T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107473\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:58:09","slug":"foo-fighters-and-nine-inch-nails-swap-drummers-switching-josh-freese-for-ilan-rubin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107473\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails Swap Drummers, Switching Josh Freese for Ilan Rubin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two months after parting ways<\/a> with Josh Freese, Foo Fighters<\/a> have unveiled Ilan Rubin as their new drummer, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed<\/a>. Rubin is jumping ship after a 16-year stint with Nine Inch Nails<\/a>, for whom the prospect of an imminent, drummerless tour<\/a> ran into a convenient solution: They hired Josh Freese. It is unclear whether Rubin is permanently aboard with Foo Fighters or just a touring member.<\/p>\n

Though Foo Fighters are yet to formally acknowledge their hire, Nine Inch Nails posted an Instagram Story picturing Freese with the caption, \u201cLet\u2019s fucking go.\u201d They kick off a North American tour at Oakland Arena on August 6; Foo Fighters\u2019 next dates are a tour of Asia in October.<\/p>\n

Rubin had been touring with Nine Inch Nails since 2009, a tenure that encompassed the band\u2019s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction<\/a> in 2020, in which he was included. He has also drummed for Paramore, Angels & Airwaves, and Danny Elfman, among others. According to a Hollywood Reporter source, Rubin had committed to Nine Inch Nails through the year but told Trent Reznor last week that he had \u201caccepted a job with another band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters brought in<\/a> Freese in 2023 as the successor to their late, longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins<\/a>. After two years together, Freese announced in May that the band had let him go, offering no reason beyond a decision \u201cto go in a different direction with their drummer.\u201d He added, \u201cI\u2019ve never been let go from a band, so while I\u2019m not angry\u2014just a bit shocked and disappointed. But as most of you know I\u2019ve always worked freelance and bounced between bands so, I\u2019m fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters released their first track since his departure, \u201cToday\u2019s Song<\/a>,\u201d this month, which came with a note thanking Freese for his time with the band and saying that, without his \u201cthunderous wizardry,\u201d the band\u2019s \u201cstory would be incomplete.\u201d Their latest album, But Here We Are<\/a>, came out in 2023; its predecessor, Medicine at Midnight<\/a>, won the Best Rock Album<\/a> Grammy one month after Hawkins\u2019 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two months after parting ways with Josh Freese, Foo Fighters have unveiled Ilan Rubin as their new drummer,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,24310,975,50,68801,27645,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-107473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-foo-fighters","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nine-inch-nails","13":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114947732453329436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}