February 25, 2010 | 3:15pm ET
“We’ll find time to sit down and start planning the next album. The aim is to get a really solid basis for it.”
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins reveals (via Kerrang!) that the band plans to begin work on the followup to 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace later this year. Currently, the project is on hiatus, as frontman Dave Grohl continues touring with Them Crooked Vultures, while Hawkins is gearing up for the release of his next album with Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders.