Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: James Brown .
Recording information: Electrical Audio Studios, Chicago, IL; Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA; KLRU-TV, Studio 6A, Austin, TX; Magic Shop, New York, NY; Ocean Way, Los Angeles, CA; Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA; Rancho De La Luna, Joshua Tree, CA; Robert Lang Studio, Seattle, WA; Southern Ground, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Andrew Stuart.
Nobody ever would've thought the Foo Fighters were gearing up for a hiatus following the vibrant 2011 LP Wasting Light, but the group announced just that in 2012. It was a short-lived break, but during that time-off, lead Foo Dave Grohl filmed an ode to the classic Los Angeles recording studio Sound City, which in turn inspired the group's 2014 album, Sonic Highways. Constructed as an aural travelog through the great rock & roll cities of America -- a journey that was documented on an accompanying HBO mini-series of the same name -- Sonic Highways picks up the thread left dangling from Sound City: Real to Reel; it celebrates not the coiled fury of underground rock exploding into the mainstream, the way the '90s-happy Wasting Light did, but rather the classic rock that unites the U.S. from coast to coast. No matter the cameo here -- and there are plenty of guests, all consciously different from the next, all bending to the needs of their hosts -- the common denominator is the pumping amps, sky-scraping riffs, and sugary melodies that so identify the sound of arena rock at its pre-MTV peak. There are a few unexpected wrinkles, as when Ben Gibbard comes aboard to give "Subterranean" a canned electronic pulse and Tony Visconti eases the closing "I Am a River" into a nearly eight-minute epic, but the brief eight-song album just winds up sounding like nothing else but the Foo Fighters at their biggest, burliest, and loudest. They've become the self-proclaimed torch barriers for real rock, championing the music's history but also blessedly connecting the '70s mainstream and '80s underground so it's all one big nation ruled by six-strings. That the mainstream inevitably edges out the underground on Sonic Highways is perhaps inevitable -- it is the common rock language, after all -- but even if there's a lingering predictability in the paths the Foo Fighters follow on Sonic Highways, they nevertheless know how to make this familiar journey pleasurable. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "These songs are some of the band's most ambitious moments yet. The closer, 'I Am a River,' grows from sprawling to self-righteous over seven minutes, with Grohl getting emotional on top of an orchestra."

Spin - "[T]eir most pleasurable album since THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, with which it shares a goofy penchant for classic-rock quotation and pastiche."

Alternative Press - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'In The Clear' is a massive anthem with a thick, punchy brass section..."

Paste (magazine) - "The chunky rock elements that have become signature Foo Fighters remain consistent throughout Sonic Highways and are exemplified in lead single and opening track 'Something from Nothing'..."

Clash (magazine) - "SONIC HIGHWAYS opens with the comparatively explosive `Something From Nothing' a classic Grohl-into-a-froth affair, clear of visual metaphor, that treads its way into life with a steady pace before stamping its feet down and screaming at the sky."

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Album: Sonic Highways *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Something from Nothing	More Info...	0:04
2)	The Feast and the Famine	More Info...	0:04
3)	Congregation	More Info...	0:05
4)	What Did I Do?/God As My Witness	More Info...	0:05
5)	Outside	More Info...	0:05
6)	In the Clear	More Info...	0:04
7)	Subterranean	More Info...	0:06
8)	I Am a River	More Info...	0:07

Album: Sonic Highways *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Something from Nothing	More Info...	0:04
2)	The Feast and the Famine	More Info...	0:04
3)	Congregation	More Info...	0:05
4)	What Did I Do?/God As My Witness	More Info...	0:05
5)	Outside	More Info...	0:05
6)	In the Clear	More Info...	0:04
7)	Subterranean	More Info...	0:06
8)	I Am a River	More Info...	0:07