Arlington Studio Featured in Foo Fighters HBO Show

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Arlington Studio Featured in Foo Fighters HBO Show

by Ethan Rothstein — October 21, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Inner Ear Studio doesn’t have a neon sign on its door, a flashy building with modern designs or gold records on the wall. ... What the Shirlington-area studio has is decades of experience recording D.C. artists, nurturing the local punk and independent music scenes, and, now, the cachet of being one of the eight studios in the country the Foo Fighters recorded in for their new album and TV show on HBO, Sonic Highways.

This Friday night at 11:00 p.m., on HBO, you can watch the Foo Fighters and Springfield, Va., native Dave Grohl record a song for the album at Inner Ear Studio (2710 S. Oakland Street), along with interviews and stories of Grohl’s time growing up around the D.C. punk rock scene. You can watch the preview for the episode on HBO’s website.
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“I remember walking down into that basement as if it were Abbey Road,” Grohl told the Washington Post. “‘Oh my god, Rites of Spring recorded here!’ It was like hallowed ground to me. And then later on, I recorded at the new facility after I was in Nirvana — I recorded some stuff there with my sister and one of those songs ended up on the first Foo Fighters album. But it was cool to see our bass player, Nate [Mendel], walk down the hallways and look at all the albums that had been made there, realizing that the soundtrack of his youth was on the walls.”
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This afternoon, the Foo Fighters announced they would be playing a show at the Black Cat on Friday, at 1811 14th Street NW, before the show airs, and then hosting a screening of the D.C. episode.