Foo Fighters On ‘Indefinite Ihateus’, Dave Grohl To Start Solo Career [Updated]

Update 11:12 pm ET: The Foo Fighters are indeed going on a hiatus, but they are defintely not breaking up, and Grohl isn’t planning a solo project (despite the Page Six report that came out earlier). Watch the band’s official announcement below; it’s a hilarious short that shows Grohl failing at recording a solo album while the rest of the band members debate who to get to replace him, and land on an unlikely candidate…

Yesterday’s Page Six article started the fire with a statement from drummer Taylor Hawkins, who confirmed tension between him and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl. According to the New York Post’s source, “The band is billing it as a ‘break,’ but it’s totally Dave going solo, and Taylor is pissed about it.”

Artisan News kept this news a secret, and today published an interview from January 16th, in which Hawkins goes in more detail about the hiatus, or as he describes it, the “ihateus.”

“We’re on ihateus right now, we’re on an indefinite ihateus … [It’s] not because we don’t love each other, or don’t want to make music together … We did so much in the last five or six years — we as a band could go into the studio tomorrow and have just as much fun as we ever had, but I think the world needs a break from us for a little while,” he explains.

You can watch the full segment below, though the breaking news starts at the 5:10 mark:

The band has followed Hawkins’ tellings with a Facebook post, to which we all patiently await a continued response: 

[H/T CoS]