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{{About|the [[HBO]] television miniseries|the album|Sonic Highways}}
{{Infobox television
| name image = Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways title screen.png
| image genre = Foo Fighters Sonic Highways title screen.png[[Rockumentary]]
| genre creator = [[RockumentaryDave Grohl]]
| creator director = [[Dave Grohl]]
| director writer = DaveMark GrohlMonroe
| writer based_on = Mark Monroe
| based_onstarring = ={{Plainlist|
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* Dave Grohl
* [[Taylor Hawkins]]
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* [[Butch Vig]]
}}
| opentheme = "[[Something from Nothing (song)|Something from Nothing]]" by [[Foo Fighters]]
| composer = Bryan Lee Brown
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = =
| num_episodes = 8
| list_episodes = =
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* James A. Rota
* John Ramsay
* Dave Grohl
}}
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* John Silva
* Gaby Skolnek
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* Kristen Welsh
}}
| editor = {{Plainlist|
* Meg Ramsay
* Kristin McCasey
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* Lenny Mesina
}}
| cinematography = {{Plainlist|
* Kenny Stoff
* Jessica Young
}}
| location = {{Collapsible list|title=Various|{{Plainlist|
* [[Austin, Texas|Austin]]
* [[Chicago]]
* [[Los Angeles]]
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* [[Washington, D.C.]]}}
}}
| company = {{Plainlist|
* [[Roswell Records|Roswell Films]]
* Therapy Content
* Diamond Docs
* [[Worldwide Pants|Worldwide Pants Incorporated]]
}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| channel = [[HBO]]
| picture_format first_aired = [[1080i]]{{Start ([[16:9]] [[HDTV]])date|2014|10|17}}
| audio_format last_aired = [[5.1{{end Surrounddate|2014|12|05}} Sound]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|2014|10|17}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2014|12|05}}
| website = http://www.hbo.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways#/
| production_website =
}}
 
'''''Sonic Highways''''' is a 2014 American [[documentary]] [[miniseries]] directed by [[Dave Grohl]] and written by Mark Monroe. The documentary was made concurrently with [[Foo Fighters]]' eighth album, ''[[Sonic Highways]]'',<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=48390|title=You are being redirected...|website=www.alternativenation.net|access-date=2014-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709105637/http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=48390|archive-date=2014-07-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was broadcast on [[HBO]]. Grohl described the project as "a love letter to the history of American music".<ref name=autogenerated4>{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/77632|title=Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl teases 'Sonic Highways' television series with trailer - watch - NME|website=[[NME]] |date=1 June 2014}}</ref> Each of the eight episodes is presented as an exploration of the musical history of a different American city through a series of interviews by Grohl. The group is also shown incorporating what they learned from the interviews into the writing and recording of a new song in or near that city. The series debuted on October 17, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways#/|title=Foo Fighters Sonic Highways - The Official Website for the HBO Series|website=HBO}}</ref>
 
==Development==
After the success of Grohl's 2013 documentary film ''[[Sound City (film)|Sound City]]'', he expressed interest to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' of doing something similar.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite web|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/dave-grohl-on-foo-fighters-new-album-we-didnt-want-to-make-some-crazy-bleak-radiohead-record/|title=Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters’Fighters' new album: we didn’tdidn't want to "make some crazy, bleak Radiohead record"|date=23 May 2014}}</ref> According to Grohl,{{quoteblockquote|text=After making ''Sound City'', I realized that the pairing of music and documentary works well because the stories give substance and depth to the song, which makes for a stronger emotional connection. So I thought, ‘I want to do this again, but instead of just walking into a studio and telling its story, I want to travel across America and tell its story.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rock-hall-fame-dave-grohl-708475|title=Rock Hall of Fame: Dave Grohl on Nirvana Honors, Reuniting with Courtney Love: 'It Was Beautiful' (Q&A)|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=31 May 2014 }}</ref>}}
 
On May 15, 2014, it was announced that the [[Foo Fighters]]' eighth album would be released in the fall of 2014, and that the band would commemorate the album and their 20th anniversary with the TV series.<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foofighters.com/news/foo-fighters-commemorate-eighth-album-20th-anniversary-hbo-series-documenting-eight-city-record |title=Foo Fighters To Commemorate Eighth Album & 20th Anniversary With HBO Series Documenting Eight-City Recording Odyssey |publisher=FooFighters.com |access-date=2014-05-15 |archive-date=2014-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524004113/http://www.foofighters.com/news/foo-fighters-commemorate-eighth-album-20th-anniversary-hbo-series-documenting-eight-city-record |url-status=dead }}</ref> Each song on the new album was recorded in a different city, featuring “local legends” on each song and lyrics inspired by the ”experiences, interviews and personalities that became part of the process.”<ref name=autogenerated2 />
 
On May 31, 2014, a 20-second video was uploaded to [[YouTube]] announcing the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/HBO/status/472890428552126464|title=.@foofighters Sonic Highways. A new original series, coming soon|date=31 May 2014|publisher=HBO on Twitter}}</ref> On August 21, 2014, a trailer, lasting 3 minutes and 31 seconds, was uploaded to YouTube showing most of the people interviewed in the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TrqXHoL10|title=Foo Fighters Sonic Highways: Trailer (HBO)|last=HBO|date=21 August 2014|via=YouTube}}</ref>
 
==Overview==
The series eight episodes show the [[Foo Fighters]] traveling to eight legendary studios in eight different cities across the [[United States of America]] to write and record their album, ''[[Sonic Highways]]''.<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-foo-fighters-roam-sonic-highways-in-new-doc-series-teaser-20140531|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603175137/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-foo-fighters-roam-sonic-highways-in-new-doc-series-teaser-20140531|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2014|title=Preview Dave Grohl's New HBO Doc Series|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] }}</ref> The cities visited were [[Chicago]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Nashville]], [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Los Angeles]], [[New Orleans]], [[Seattle]] and [[New York City|New York]].<ref name=autogenerated4 /> Studios involved with the project include [[Steve Albini]]'s [[Electrical Audio]] in Chicago; [[Rancho De La Luna]] in California; [[Robert Lang Studios]] in Seattle, and[[Inner Ear Studios]] in [[Arlington County, Virginia]]'s, and the [[InnerMagic EarShop Studios(recording studio)|Magic Shop]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/dave-grohl-reveals-title-for-hbo-show-sound-highways-shares-trailer/|title=Dave Grohl reveals title for HBO show, Sonic Highways, shares trailer|date=1 June 2014}}</ref>
 
Each episode features interviews with artists who recorded at the respective studios. Among them are [[Dolly Parton]], [[Daniel Lanois]], [[Ian MacKaye]] of [[Minor Threat]] and [[Fugazi]], [[Paul Stanley]] of [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], [[Joe Walsh]] of [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]], [[Duff McKagan]] of [[Guns N' Roses]], [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]] of [[Heart (band)|Heart]], [[Rick Nielsen]] of [[Cheap Trick]], [[Zac Brown Band|Zac Brown]],<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/39556/Foo-Fighters-release-Sonic-Highways-teaser|title=Foo Fighters release ‘Sonic'Sonic Highways’Highways' teaser|date=1 June 2014|access-date=1 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019162921/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/39556/Foo-Fighters-release-Sonic-Highways-teaser|archive-date=19 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Gary Clark, Jr.]]<ref name=autogenerated3 /> There was also collaboration with the [[Preservation Hall Jazz Band]] in New Orleans, which led to a live performance with [[Trombone Shorty]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> The episodes begin with a quote from a song that was recorded in their respective location and ends with a music video for that same song with animated lyrics appearing in the background.
 
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The series aired in the [[UK]] on [[BBC Four]] starting October 26, 2014. It also aired in Australia on [[Go! (Australian TV channel)|GO!]] hours after its US broadcast. It was repeated on [[Channel V Australia|Channel <nowiki>[V]</nowiki>]] from February 16, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[TV Tonight]]|first=David|last=Knox|title=Airdate: Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2015/02/airdate-foo-fighters-sonic-highways.html|date=6 February 2015|access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref>
 
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==Episodes==
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|Title=Chicago
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|910|2717}}
|ShortSummary= Chicago has been a mecca for such diverse acts as [[Cheap Trick]], [[Etta James]], [[Smashing Pumpkins]], [[Herbie Hancock]], [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] and [[Kanye West]]. This episode chronicles the [[Music of Chicago|city's musical evolution]] from the blues of [[Buddy Guy]] and [[Muddy Waters]] in the '50s and '60s, to the quintessentially midwestern rock of Cheap Trick in the '70s and the [[punk rock]] of the '80s, as exemplified by [[Naked Raygun]]. At [[Electrical Audio]] studios, Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters connect with owner [[Steve Albini]], a Chicago musical icon as a founding member of [[Big Black]] and [[Shellac (band)|Shellac]], who produced and recorded Nirvana's third album, ''[[In Utero (album)|In Utero]]''. Later, they're joined by Cheap Trick's [[Rick Nielsen]] to record "Something from Nothing," the first song on Foo Fighters' new album.
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|EpisodeNumber=2
|Title=Washington D.C
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|910|2824}}
|ShortSummary= Washington, D.C. is in many ways a city of extremes. [[Starland Vocal Band]], [[Marvin Gaye]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Nils Lofgren]], [[Chuck Brown]], [[Henry Rollins]], [[Fugazi]] and [[Trouble Funk]] all hail from D.C. In the early '70s, the music style [[go-go]] originated here, and has remained a local craze ever since. Dave Grohl sits down with Trouble Funk's Big Tony Fisher to talk about go-go, and explores its origins with Chuck Brown, the genre's undisputed godfather. He also chats with [[Don Zientara]], owner of [[Inner Ear Studios]], which the Virginia-raised Grohl says "produced the entire soundtrack of my youth," as well as with members of the [[harDCore]] band [[Bad Brains]] and [[Ian MacKaye]] of [[Teen Idles]], [[Minor Threat]] and Fugazi, who all recorded at Inner Ear over the decades. The song "The Feast and the Famine" is recorded during this episode.
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|Title=Nashville
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|10|431}}
|ShortSummary= The band heads to Nashville, Tenn. Dave sits down with [[Dolly Parton]], [[Tony Joe White]], [[Steve Earle]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Emmylou Harris]] and producer [[Tony Brown (record producer)|Tony Brown]] to discuss Nashville's musical influences and the [[Nashville sound]]. Foo Fighters prepare to record at Southern Ground studio, owned by [[Country music|country]] musician [[Zac Brown]], who also guests on the song "Congregation".
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|Title=Austin
|OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|20192014|1011|47}}
|ShortSummary= Foo Fighters prepare to record "What Did I Do? / God As My Witness" at the [[Austin City Limits]] Studio, with blues guitarist [[Gary Clark, Jr.]] Dave chats with Terry Lickona, the executive producer of ''Austin City Limits''. Examining the roots of [[Music of Austin, Texas|Austin's music scene]], with interviews featuring [[Billy Gibbons]] from [[ZZ Top]], and [[Roky Erickson]] from [[13th Floor Elevators]], who is considered one of the American fathers of [[psychedelic rock]]. The song "What Did I Do? / God as My Witness" is recorded during this episode.
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|Title=Los Angeles
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|1011|514}}
|ShortSummary= Los Angeles' highly influential position in rock history is examined. Pat Smear remembers the days of [[Germs (band)|Germs]], and visits legendary [[KROQ]] [[disc jockey]] [[Rodney Bingenheimer]], owner of [[Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco|a 1970s Sunset Strip club]] that became the hub for the Los Angeles glam rock scene. Foo Fighters head to the desert to record their new song "Outside", which features a solo from Eagles' guitarist [[Joe Walsh]], at [[Rancho De La Luna]], and in turn, [[Kyuss]] and the 1990s [[Palm Desert Scene]] is explored.
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|Title=New Orleans
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|1011|521}}
|ShortSummary= Dave discussess [[Music of New Orleans|New Orleans' unique music history]] with [[Dr. John]], [[Allen Toussaint]] and [[Cyril Neville]]. The band records in [[Preservation Hall]] and also performs with the [[Preservation Hall Jazz Band]]. The song "In the Clear" is recorded during this episode.
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|EpisodeNumber=7
|Title=Seattle
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|20192014|1011|1228}}
|ShortSummary=Dave returns to his grunge roots, while Foo Fighters prepare to record with [[Death Cab for Cutie]]'s [[Ben Gibbard]] at [[Robert Lang Studios]], as well as exploring the [[Music of Seattle|Seattle music scene]]. The song "Subterranean" is recorded during this episode.
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|Title=New York
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|102014|12|5}}
|ShortSummary=Dave explores the evolution of the [[Music of New York City|New York music scene]]. Interviews include Paul Stanley, [[Jimmy Iovine]], [[Nora Guthrie]], [[Thurston Moore]], [[Chuck D]], [[LL Cool J]], [[Mike D]], [[Rick Rubin]] and [[Barack Obama]]. Foo Fighters record a song at The Magic Shop. The song "I Am a River" is recorded during this episode.
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==Certifications==
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=DVDvideo|title=Sonic Highways|artist=Foo Fighters|award=Gold|salesamount=7,500|certyear=2015|certref=<ref name="ARIA.DVD's.2015">[http://www.aria.com.au/pages/DVDAccreds2015.htm ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2015 DVDs] aria.com. Retrieved May 11, 2015.</ref>|access-date=May 11, 2015}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|title=Sonic Highways|artist=Foo Fighters|award=Gold|type=video|relyear=2015|certyear=2015|access-date=19 December 2015}}
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==See also==
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[[Category:HBO documentary films]]
[[Category:Television series by Worldwide Pants]]
[[Category:Foo Fighters]]
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