Foo Fighters to Head Out on Massive 2015 Stadium Tour

What is a band to do after they released a highly anticipated album while also having a hit docu-series about the making of the album?

Go out on tour of course.

The Foo Fighters announced last night that they will be embarking on a stadium tour next Summer. The tour will kick of in Washington, DC on the Fourth of July where the band will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a star-studded show.

After that, the Foo Fighters will hit up many United States stadiums as well as one stadium in Canada.

The three-month North American tour will then wrap up on Oct. 7, 2015 in Memphis at the FedEx Forum.

Considering how in demand tickets for this tour will be, the Foo Fighters have thought of a way to keep the scalpers at bay. The band will allow fans to purchase ‘Beat the Bots’ tickets this Saturday (Nov. 22) at certain box office locations. For more information about that, check out the band’s official website.

Check out the full list of tour dates below and keep in mind that there’s still time (and available dates) for the band to reveal more tour stops.

2015 FOO FIGHTERS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

7/4/15 – Washington DC – RFK Stadium

7/6/15 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center *

7/9/15 – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre *

7/16/15 – New York, NY – Citi Field *

7/18/15 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park **

7/19/15 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park *

8/12/15 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place *

8/13/15 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome *

8/17/15 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *

8/19/15 – Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater *

8/21/15 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center *

8/22/15 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center *

8/24/15 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre *

8/25/15 – Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion *

8/27/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Klipsch Music Center

8/29/15 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field (SOLD OUT)

9/11/15 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena

9/12/15 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre

9/14/15 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

9/16/15 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre

9/18/15 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center

9/21/15 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum

9/25/15 – Phoenix, AZ – AK-Chin Pavilion

9/27/15 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater

9/29/15 – Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena

9/30/15 – Wichita, KS – INTRUST Bank Arena

10/4/15 – Atlanta, GA – Centennial Olympic Park

10/5/15 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

10/7/15 – Memphis, TN – FedExForum

* w/ special guest Royal Blood
** w/ special guest Mission of Burma

Foo Fighters Release Two New Songs

Happy Foo Fighters Friday. Like the past few Fridays, the band have once again released another track from their upcoming album, Sonic Highways.

Unlike the past couple of weeks, two songs have made their debut this week. During an in-studio performance at BBC Radio 1, a new track titled “Outside”was performed live. The live performance was ripped from the radio and is now available for everyone to hear.

“Outside” was recorded at Rancho De la Luna in Joshua Tree, CA with the Eagles’ Joe Walsh playing guitar on the song. Next week’s episode of the HBO special will take place in Los Angeles which will probably give us the background information about the recording process of the track.

In addition to the reveal of “Outside,” the Foo fighters officially dropped another song titled “What Did I Do/ God As My Witness.” Following the trend that was started with the first episode of the Sonic Highways docu-series, “What Did I Do” was recorded in Austin, TX with Gary Clark Jr. Tonight’s episode of the eight-part series will follow the band as they arrive in Austin and record the song.

Listen to “What Did I Do/ God As My Witness” below.

Sonic Highways the album will officially, and finally, be release next Tuesday through Roswell/RCA.

Foo Fighters Send in the “Congregation”

It’s Friday which means that he Foo fighters have released another new song from their new album, Sonic Highways.

Yesterday, a snippet of the new song titled “Congregation” was released onto the internet, but like the past two Fridays, the band have released the song on the same day their HBO special is slated to air its third episode.

Tonight’s episode of Sonic Highways takes the guys to Nashville where frontman Dave Grohl gets to sit and chat with several artists including Dolly Parton, Tony Joe White, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and producer Tony Bown.

This episode, the band got the chance to record the new track at Southern Ground studio with help from Zac Brown from the Zac Brown Band.

Check out said track below and if you don’t have anything planned for Halloween, then don’t forget to tune into Sonic Highways tonight at 11 p.m. on HBO.

Stream The Foo Fighters’ Washington D.C. Track

It’s finally Friday and the Foo fighters are celebrating by releasing another song from their upcoming new album, Sonic Highways.

The song “The Feast and the Famine” is the other tracks that was teased during the last trailer for the band’s HBO documentary also titled Sonic Highways; the other song that was featured in the trailer was “Something For Nothing” which was released last week.

The song will appear on tonight’s episode of the series which shows the band going to Washington, D.C. where the track was record.

Check out the “The Feast and the Famine” in full in the video below.

Sonic Highways continues tonight with the band visiting Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA with guest Bad Brains.

Sonic Highways, the album, will be released on Nov. 10 through Roswell Records, frontman Dave Grohl’s imprint from RCA.

The Foo Fighters Give Us “Something From Nothing”

After so much excitement and anticipation, the Foo Fighters have finally released the first single off of their upcoming eighth album, Sonic Highways.

Earlier in the week, as they began their job as house band on The Late Show with David Letterman, they revealed that their first single would be “Something From Nothing” and would debut the day before their eight part HBO docu-series, Sonic Highways,

Today, like we were promised, the band debuted the new song, though BBC Radio 1 got the exclusive premiere. Check out the song in full here.

Following the theme of their docu-series, recording eight new song in eight different “musical” cities, “Something From Nothing” was recorded in Chicago with the help of Steve Albini at his studio, Electrical Audio. Albini has history with frontman Dave Grohl; he produced Nirvana’s third and final studio album, In Utero.

Sonic Highways, the album will be released on Nov. 10 through Roswell Records, Grohl’s RCA imprint.

Foo Fighters Tease Two New Songs in New Trailer

The Foo Fighters are set to be the house band on The Late Show with David Letterman this week as part of their promotion tour for their upcoming new album and docu-series on HBO, Sonic Highways.

During the weekend, the band released a new trailer for the upcoming special which follows the band across the country as they record their new record in eight different studios in eight different cities while also exploring the musical cultures with the musicians who call those places home.

In the trailer, the band also give fans a teaser for two new songs from the upcoming record. The tracks are titled, “The Feast and the Famine” and “Something for Nothing,” with the latter to be released on Thursday, Oct. 16 in full.

Sonic Highways the docu-series is set to premiere on the same day “Something for Nothing” will be released; this Thursday.

Their take over on Letterman begins today with not only a performance, but frontman Dave is set to be interviewed by the host. Guest musicians are also set to join the band throughout the week.

Sonic Highways, the album, will be released on Nov. 10 through Roswell Records, Grohl’s RCA imprint. Watch the new trailer for the eight-part docu-series here.

Foo Fighters to Play House Band for David Letterman

Just when you think the Foo Fighters have done everything in the world, you know release tons of album, perform as a band named “The Holy Shits,” and play a fan-funded show among other things, comes the news that they have been tapped to become the house band for David Letterman.

It was revealed earlier in the day that the Dave Grohl-led band would be taking up residency on The Late Show with David Letterman for an entire week, beginning next Monday, Oct. 13 through next Friday, Oct. 17. On the first day of their stint, Grohl will be interviewed by Letterman.

The residency will reportedly feature the band playing songs from their upcoming eight-track long new record, Sonic Highways.

The five days of playing house band is in support of the band’s HBO docu-series, Sonic Highways which is set to premiere on Oct. 17.

The eight-part docu-series follows the band as they write and record their new album in eight different cities including: Nashville, Austin, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Washington D.C., and Seattle. While in those eight cities, they also set out to explore how each of the regions influence the music and musicians that come from that region, some of them contributing to the band’s eight studio album.

During their residency, some of the musicians who helped with the recording process will be joining the Foo fighters on stage.

Sonic Highways the docu-series premieres on Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO while Sonic Highways the album will be released on Nov. 10 through Roswell/RCA Records.

Foo Fighters Tease New Song Under Alias

If you happen to notice a band called The Holy Shits will be performing at a venue near you, you might want to go because there’s a chance that it might be the Foo Fighters performing under an alias.

That’s exactly what happened this past weekend to audience members who headed out to see the band without really knowing what to expect.

Over the past couple of weeks, rumors had been circulating that the Foo Fighters, by their actual name, would be performing some super secret shows in London. The rumors were confirmed to be true when The Holy Shits revealed themselves.

Surprise indeed.

During one of their stop at London’s Islington Assembly Hall, the band treated fans to an instrumental version of a never-before-heard track which turned out to be one of their new songs, “Outside.” The song was weaved into a rendition of 2007’s “The Pretender.”

Fan shot video from the show (and of the song) can been seen below.

“Outside” will be featured on the Foo Fighters’ upcoming eighth album, Sonic Highways due out Nov. 10. Sonic Highways will feature eight tracks which were recorded at eight different studios in eight different cities around the United States. Sonic Highways is also the name of the band’s eight-part documentary for HBO which chronicles the filming of the new record.

Foo Fighters Release First Trailer for HBO’s “Sonic Highways”

With the announcement that their eighth studio album would be named after their HBO documentary, the Foo Fighters have unveiled the first teaser for Sonic Highways, the almost a year in the making documentary.

In the video, frontman Dave Grohl’s voice over explains to the viewer where the idea of this journey began and it all had to do with the idea that the environment that you record in will directly affect the recording process. In order to prove his point, Grohl and the rest of the Foo Fighters, packed their bags and headed all over the country to test this theory out.

Check out the three and a half-minute clip (believe us, you’ll watch it several times) below and jot down all the famous people who made cameos in it.

Like the voice over at the end of the trailer, this documentary is “a love letter to the history of American music” and we can believe it when you have some of music’s biggest and iconic artists making cameos and speaking to you about what kind of music helped influence them.

Sonic Highways, the documentary, will premiere on October 17 at 10 p.m CT on HBO while Sonic Highways, the album is set to hit shelves on November 10.

Now, raise your hand if you got chills watching the trailer and can’t wait for the series to premiere.

The Foo Fighters Unveil New Album Info

After making fans waiting by their computer eagerly this morning, The Foo Fighters have unveiled the news that have had people waiting around the interweb; the title of their eighth studio album.

Last week, the band had fans do a scavenger hunt on the internet, finding pieces of a photo which revealed the eight cities the band headed to to record the new album.

At the times, all the clues were pointing at the band naming the record “Eight,” but then again, they probably led fans in that direction, on purpose, in order to surprise them with the real title of the record, Sonic Highways.

The album will now shared the same title as the band’s HBO mini-series which follows them as they record the upcoming album at eight different studios in eight different cities while also exploring the music world in those locations.

The mini-series is slated to premiere on October 17 while the record will hit shelves on November 10.

The track list for the record can also be seen below which, we shouldn’t be surprised, features eight tracks.

Now, the question is, which one of these tracks does the teaser we got on Friday with frontman Dave Grohl screaming “All Rise!” belong to?

SONIC HIGHWAYS TRACKLIST:

Something From Nothing
The Feast and The Famine
Congregation
What Did I Do?/God As My Witness
Outside
In The Clear
Subterranean
I Am A River