Chicago
Where the Foo Fighters closed Lollapalooza's 20th anniversary and began their Sonic Highways journey.
Chicago, Illinois, figures in two Foo Fighters milestones. On August 7, 2011, the band headlined the final night of the 20th-anniversary Lollapalooza in the city's Grant Park, playing part of the set in a driving rainstorm. Chicago is also one of the eight American cities the band visited for Sonic Highways, recording at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio.
Last updated 2026-09-28 from the source article.
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- Lollapalooza headline
- August 7, 2011 (Grant Park)
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Background
For Sonic Highways (2014), Dave Grohl travelled to Chicago, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York, interviewing local musicians, engineers and producers about each city's musical history and using what he heard in the lyrics. The band and producer Butch Vig then recorded at a different studio in each city, and the process was filmed for the HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways.
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