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Dave Grohl’s ‘Sonic Highways’

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss “Sonic Highways,” the new album and HBO mini-series by Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the New York Times Popcast, you are blowhard daddy of music news and criticism.

0:05.2

I'm your host, John Caramonica. You have no choice you to choose

0:12.8

fit farewell to yesterday

0:15.2

Say goodbye. I'm on my way

0:20.6

But in the end we are all.

0:24.0

Come from what's come before so here I would go.

0:30.0

I would go.

0:32.0

Yeah. I would go.

0:33.0

Oh, that was.

0:35.0

Ooh, that was the Foo Fighters.

0:39.0

Ooh, that was something from nothing from nothing

0:41.0

from this hot new record.

0:44.0

Ben Ratliff, what's this hot new record called?

0:47.7

And when I say hot, I mean like it has a fever.

0:49.8

It has a temperature, like it's sick, like it's done like it's unwell what's it called what is that what

0:55.7

is daddy what's his voodoo daddy is so sick and it's called Sonic highways which

1:00.6

little known fact is also the name of a kids meal at Sonic so that there's that Sonic highways talk to me about Sonic highways

1:08.3

Tell the people concept well the food fighters a known conceptual band tell the people where the Foo Fighters are pushing it on this iteration of their career.

1:17.0

Yeah. The Foo Fighters, let's back up to 2013.

1:21.0

Sure, let's when Dave Grohl directed a movie called Sound City, which is about

1:28.2

Sound City studios in California, where a lot of important rock albums were made including

1:36.3

Nevermind by nirvana on which he plays the drums a popular band popular band

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