Ugly holiday sweater parties have become a holiday tradition in recent years, and retailers have been cashing in on the trend by offering dated designs on new clothes. The Foo Fighters are getting in on the action now, too, with their own tacky Christmas gear. Rather than cheerful imagery, Dave Grohl and Co. opted for a scary gingerbread man and font that pays tribute to the Norwegian black metal band Emperor.
As Blabbermouth points out, the sweaters are available for $30 on the band's Web store. They come in — you guessed it — green and red.
In the most recent episode of the band's HBO series and companion piece to their new album, Sonic Highways, Grohl and the boys visited New Orleans. They recorded at the historic Preservation Hall, which is rich in history, none of which Grohl knew anything about, admitting, "Before I turned on the camera with Ben Jaffe from Preservation Hall [Jazz Band], I said, 'I don't know s--t about jazz and I don't know shit about New Orleans. We're rolling.'"
"A lot of the interviews were like that. I'm a music nerd, but I'm not a musicologist," Grohl told Rolling Stone. "I love talking about music and hearing these stories, but I also love not knowing everything. The interviews turned into conversations that turned into lessons."
The New Orleans episode was the sixth installment of the series. The Foos previously traveled to Chicago, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Austin and Los Angeles.
Friday, Nov. 28, will be a special episode, since it has the group heading to Seattle, where Grohl's former band Nirvana rose to fame. It is also where the singer went to record the Foo Fighters's self-titled debut in 1995 after the death of Kurt Cobain.
"Seattle is where my life changed with Nirvana, and then my life started over with the Foo Fighters," Grohl told Studio Brussel during a recent interview. "I would use Seattle as an example — I tell the story of the city and this crazy studio. The studio is the last place where Nirvana recorded, it's this strange underground studio north of the city, that was right down the street from my house. Not long after we recorded there, Kurt [Cobain] died."
The series closes out in New York Dec. 5.
