Foo Fighters Debut 'Your Favorite Toy' & Share How The Album Came Together

Foo Fighters gave fans an early listen to their highly anticipated album, Your Favorite Toy, during an intimate iHeartRadio Album Preview at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by the one and only Johnny Knoxville.

Your Favorite Toy already has Johnny Knoxville's stamp of approval, with the host telling the crowd the new album is "amazing" as he welcomed Foo Fighters to the stage. He quickly turned the focus to the band's 12th studio album, asking the question on everyone's mind: "When does it become time to make another album?"

"We're not really on any sort of schedule." Dave Grohl stated. "It's about every three years. But the same thing happens every time where we'll go in and we'll make a record, and we'll spend a couple months working on it, and then once we're done, we tour for maybe a year and a half... We swear that we’ll never f—–g do it again... We take a break, and within, I don’t know, a few months, we just start sort of writing and sending demos to each other."

Grohl added that once those demos start circulating, everything begins to click into place. "I think once the songs really start taking shape, or the concept starts taking shape, if you've done a bunch of demos and then you find this place in all of those demos that makes sense, once you feel that or really see it, you're like, 'Okay, now we know what we're going to do. Let's go in and do it.'"

Grohl also shared a playful way he brought the album to fans before its release, turning a day off into a hands-on Your Favorite Toy promo moment with his daughter.

"I had a day off... I was like, oh God, you know what would be kind of funny? What if I burned 20 CDs upstairs in my office, and then my daughter Harper and I made artwork on little colored paper and then I went and put them at like IKEA or like the World Market."

He said the experience reminded him of how it all started, long before Foo Fighters became a band.

"It's not unlike when I recorded the first Foo Fighters record. I did it super quick, did it at a studio down the street from my house, and I made a hundred cassettes. It wasn't a band yet, and there was no record company or anything." Grohl continued, "I had this box of cassettes in the back of my truck, and there would be times where people would say, like at a gas station once, this guy was like, 'Whoa, dude, I was a fan of Nirvana. What are you doing now?’ And I'm like, 'Oh, hold on,' I go to the back of my truck and I'm like, 'Check it out,' and I give him a cassette. There's something about that that is not unlike the early days, like the early Foo Fighters days or the Watt tour days, the first tour and stuff like that, which is fun."

If you missed the full Foo Fighters iHeartRadio Album Preview, you can listen to it on iHeartRadio's Freeform Radio via the free iHeartRadio app every night at 7pm ET/4pm PT through April 30.

Check out Your Favorite Toy on iHeartRadio.