Foo Fighters Set To Release ‘Sonic Highways’ November 10

The Foo Fighters are coming back to the music scene.

Dave Grohl, lead singer and rhythm guitar player for the Foo Fighters, announced their next album, Sonic Highways, will be released on November 10 of this year, according to the Los Angeles Times. The latest album will be produced by the band with Butch Vig, who produced their last album, Wasting Light, which won the band a Grammy in 2011.

The buzz on this album is that each of the eight songs on the album was written and recorded in a different town — with various well known residents sitting in — in an attempt to reflect “the local musical currents” of each city, according to a statement. Sonic Highways will arrive just after the Oct. 17 premiere of a new HBO series documenting the Foo Fighters’ visits to eight American cities with important musical traditions: Austin, Texas; Chicago; Los Angeles; Nashville; New Orleans; New York; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

The goal was to reflect “the local musical currents” of each city, the statement said.

“Part of the focus of this project was the regional relevance of all of these places,” Grohl said last month during a presentation at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills. “In today’s world of interconnectivity, there’s kind of no isolation. And a lot of the reasons why these specific types of music happened in these places was because of the isolation.”

The singer used the example of Seattle, home of the grunge scene that produced Grohl’s old band Nirvana, “sort of lived in its own little bio-dome and created this beautiful music scene, a community of musicians that supported each other.”

In Monday’s statement Grohl said that Sonic Highways — a brief clip from which you can hear on the band’s website — “is instantly recognizable as a Foo Fighters record, but there’s something deeper and more musical to it. I think that these cities and these people influenced us to stretch out and explore new territory, without losing our sound.”

The Guardian is reporting that Sonic Highways was conceived as “a love letter to the history of American music.” The album’s other guests are rumored to include Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye, The Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes, and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley.

Foo Fighters have sold more than 25m albums since 1995, including three U.K. No 1s. They are scheduled to perform at London’s Invictus Games closing ceremonies on 14 September.

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