Foo Fighters

If
you want to piss people off, claim that Dave Grohl has written and performed more
great music than Kurt Cobain. It’s true: While his stuff may never be as
transcendent as Cobain’s, the Foo frontman and ex-Nirvana drummer has soldiered
on in superior fashion since Cobain’s ’94 suicide, delivering a remarkably
consistent string of quality discs. (One by One is the lone clunker among the
seven Foo records.) The latest, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, ranks
with the first disc on In Your Honor as the band’s finest work, containing the
Foo hallmarks of dynamic crescendos (a whisper-to-a-scream capability to rival
Aerosmith); gritty, punk-pop hooks; underrated, passionate vocals; and the
occasional affecting ballad. Plus, in whatever incarnation Grohl slaps
together, the Foos have always been able to deliver the goods in an arena-sized
venue.

7:30 p.m., Target Center,
600 First Avenue North, Minneapolis; 612-673-1600.