In a new interview with Entertainment weekly, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl discussed the band's new album, Wasting Light, saying no to the hit TV show Glee, and playing NIRVANA's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' for the first time in 18 years. An excerpt is available below:

EW: You recruited your Nirvana band mate Krist Novoselic to play bass on the (new) track 'I Should Have Known'. And you also got Nevermind producer Butch Vig to oversee the CD. You must have known people would get pretty excited when they heard the three of you were working together again.

Grohl: "Deciding to work with Butch on this record was a big step for me, personally. Because I’ve had to walk this really fine line between the Foo Fighters and Nirvana for 17 years. I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

After a while it became easier to talk about. But there were certain things that were off limits. Like I couldn’t have made the first Foo Fighters album with Butch. And I don’t think I could have made the second one with him. It got to the point where I felt like, maybe it’s finally time. But I was caught in this uncomfortable place: 'We’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Nevermind, so do I have to wait another ten f—ing years?'

Then I started thinking, 'This is my f—ing band. Why would I let anyone else influence what I want to do musically? F— that, let’s work with Butch.' And then you start to free yourself from all of those restrictions that have been placed upon you. Krist is really no stranger to the Foo Fighters. He’s recorded with us in the studio before, he’s played with us live. But you put Krist and Butch and me in the studio for the first time in 20 f—ing years it becomes more than just a guest appearance and a day in the studio. There’s a lot more weight to it. Which I totally understand. But to me, having Krist come down and play on the record was more of a personal opportunity. I just thought, 'What a trip, to sit with Krist and Butch and Pat [Smear, Nirvana and Foo Fighters guitarist] in the studio together.' Because that was never supposed to happen again. It was pretty huge.

The day we finished the record, we had this club gig to do. It was in this little bar down the street, a surprise show. I invited Krist to come down and play a song. We wanted to play 'Marigold', which was the b-side of the 'Heart-Shaped Box' single, and it was the only Nirvana song I sang. I said, 'Krist, for the encore, I’ll play drums, you play bass, Pat plays guitar, we’ll do that song. And that’ll be the first time we’ve been together onstage since Nirvana ended.'

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Wasting Light was released April 12 by Roswell/RCA and consists of the following tracks:

'Bridge Burning'

'Rope'

'Dear Rosemary'

'White Limo'

'Arlandria'

'These Days'

'Back & Forth'

'A Matter Of Time'

'Miss The Misery'

'I Should Have Known'

'Walk'

The video for 'White Limo' can be viewed below:

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