Sonic Highways

While Dave Letterman signed off from his show with a Foo Fighters’ song, frontman Dave Grohl is using their own music to keep his own series going, Sonic Highways. Sonic Highways was named for an eight-part documentary miniseries that aired on HBO in 2014, in which Grohl and company visited cities across America and interviewed …

If Rock and Roll and guitar rock is a dying breed, then the rock-doc is certainly becoming a quaint relic. How many documentaries can you make in which an aging rock star waxes poetic about a type of music from 40 years earlier? How much nostalgia, history and navel gazing can you pack into the genre before even the documentaries move on to being nostalgic about boy bands, Taylor Swift and EDM?