FOO FIGHTERS Release Music Video For 'The Sky Is A Neighborhood'

August 23, 2017

Following the overwhelmingly massive reception to the MTV Video Music Award-nominated, Mainstream Rock #1 track "Run", FOO FIGHTERS have delivered a second consecutive contender for rock anthem of 2017 in the form of "The Sky Is A Neighborhood". Described by Grohl as "the biggest thing sonically that we've ever done," "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" is also the piece de resistance that effectively completed FOO FIGHTERS' forthcoming ninth album, "Concrete And Gold".

"One night I was lying out looking up at stars," Grohl recalls. "Just imagining all of these stars as places that have life on them as well, and I decided that the sky is a neighborhood, that we need to keep our shit together in order to survive in this universe full of life. But I had no music yet. I just had the title. So every day I would walk around, kind of humming this thing in my head."

The melody of the song came to Grohl without even touching a guitar, so it follows that "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" would come just as naturally to the band: the song was recorded in a single afternoon by Grohl and fellow FOO FIGHTERS members Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee. "And once we were finished," Grohl says. "I thought, 'Okay, now we have an album. This is it and we're done'… as we were mixing, I realized that we'd actually done what we set out do: to make this gigantic FOO FIGHTERS record but with Greg Kurstin's sense of jazz and melody and arrangement, something that we'd never done before."

Of course, "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" deserved an equally ambitious visual representation, and together with director of photography Brandon Trost and with production by Therapy Studios, director Grohl, FOO FIGHTERS — and family — have more than delivered: "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" is a kaleidoscopic sci-fi mini-epic as massive as the slow burning rock anthem that gave it life. Hypnotic swirls of color of extraterrestrial origin, glowing eyes, levitating children and more combine to create an otherworldly cinematic palette equal parts beautiful and creepy — the result being arguably the most striking video in the FOO FIGHTERS' multiple award-winning canon.

Simultaneously, FOO FIGHTERS are launching a constellation viewer, enabling every FF fan to transform to their phone into a tool for exploring the sky in their neighborhood: Go to sky.foofighters.com from your phone to configure a realistic constellation map in the viewer's 3D sphere, then let it identify the constellations in your night sky — all while tiny FOO FIGHTERS soundtrack your explorations at the bottom of the screen.

With more than two million YouTube views in its first 24 hours, "Run" smashed into the Top 5 of the iTunes video chart and the Top 15 iTunes singles chart — quickly amassing the highest first-day numbers of any single in the FOO FIGHTERS' career. Both songs were performed during FOO FIGHTERS' epic three-and-a-half-hour thirty-two-song marathon Lollapalooza aftershow August 4 at Chicago's Metro club, and are sure to be live staples of the coming FOO FIGHTERS U.S. tour. That tour kicks off October 7 with the band's Cal Jam 17 festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California.

"Concrete And Gold" was written and performed by FOO FIGHTERS, produced by Greg Kurstin and FOO FIGHTERS, and mixed by Darrell Thorp. The album will be released September 15 worldwide on Roswell/RCA.

The track listing is:

01. T-Shirt
02. Run
03. Make It Right
04. The Sky Is A Neighborhood
05. La Dee Da
06. Dirty Water
07. Arrows
08. Happy Ever After (Zero Hour)
09. Sunday Rain
10. The Line
11. Concrete And Gold

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