Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 29, 2019.

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Update 3/3/2020: Twenty-five years after their debut album released, the Foo Fighters are bringing a full-fledged music festival to FedEx Field on the Fourth of July. Announced Tuesday, the event is called D.C. Jam (though, it’s technically in Landover, Maryland) and features a full day and night of performances, rides, and a BBQ competition.

The guest list includes country star Chris Stapleton, iconic all-women punk band the Go-Go’s, and Grammy-winning mega-producer Pharrell. Also on the lineup: Band of Horses, Durand Jones & the Indications, the Regrettes, Beach Bunny, and Radkey.

The festival comes two years after the Foo Fighters-hosted Cal Jam in San Bernadino, and five years after the band’s last Fourth of July fest at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 6.

Original: It’s times like these you learn to love Dave Grohl again.

The Foo Fighters, the rock band founded by the Northern Virginia legend and former Nirvana drummer, last weekend posted a mysterious red-white-and-blue GIF on social media, decked in stars. “D.C. JAM,” read the GIF, underscored by a caption that simply said “COMING SOON.”

We’re going to need more info, Dave.

Are the Foo Fighters coming back to the District? A spokesperson for I.M.P., the major D.C. concert company that promoted the band’s 20th-anniversary Fourth of July festival at RFK Stadium, in 2015, says it isn’t involved in any upcoming Foo Fighters shows. In addition to Grohl and his bandmates, the gig featured musical great Buddy Guy, “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” icon Joan Jett, and go-go masterminds Trouble Funk, as well as LL Cool J and Gary Clark Jr.

With the appearance of the GIF, some Foo Fighters fans have spun the memory wheel back to that last D.C. concert of theirs.

Other social media users noticed that the Instagram account for Cal Jam, Grohl’s annual rock festival, was tagged in the band’s post, leading fans to suspect something similar for the District. Hosted in San Bernadino, Cal Jam in 2018 saw a wild Nirvana reunion, plus performances from Queens of the Stone Age and Cage the Elephant.

Grohl has blazed a musical path with milestones that include nine studio albums with the Foo Fighters, an HBO documentary, and headlining the sold-out opening of the Anthem. But at one point, the 51-year-old rock star was just a wee Virginia lad shuffling with fellow D.C. punk-heads at local clubs. A decade ago, in the pages of the Washington Post Magazine, Grohl remembered the good ol’ days at 9:30 Club:

I went to the 9:30 Club hundreds of times. I was always so excited to get there, and I was always bummed when it closed. I spent my teenage years at the club and saw some shows that changed my life. The first time I played there was with my band Dain Bramage, when I was 15 or 16. I scored my first record deal that night, with Fartblossom Records. It was already the greatest night of my life—as a kid growing up in the D.C. punkrock scene, your first show at the 9:30 Club might as well have been Royal Albert Hall or Madison Square Garden.

This month, the Foo Fighters also announced a 25th anniversary tour that will hit all the stops from their first tour in 1995, starting in Phoenix, in April. But D.C. wasn’t included on the tour list, even though the currently advertised dates go through July. The closest the tour is slated to come is Virginia Beach, in late April. (The band appears to have a bit of a break between performing in Lisbon, in June, and Montreal, in late July.)

DCist will update this post when more details are available about D.C. Jam. In the meantime, enjoy this video of that Nirvana reunion:

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