According to The Pulse Of Radio, FOO FIGHTERS have posted a new image on their official web site that now shows a map of North America from space, with an area of northern California highlighted in red. This appears to indicate that the band will perform in this region of the U.S. at some point in 2017, although the exact location and date has yet to be announced. This follows a similar scenario from November in which sites in Europe were highlighted on the same kind of map, eventually leading to the revelation of a string of European dates next summer. It has been speculated that the California date could be at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival in mid-August. There is no other information regarding what the band might be touring to promote, although there has been increased activity within the FOO FIGHTERS' world recently. In addition to a few low-key solo gigs by Dave Grohl, the FOO FIGHTERS played a private benefit concert in Los Angeles in October and are scheduled to perform at an all-star benefit concert honoring Tom Petty as the 2017 MusiCares Person Of The Year on February 10 in Los Angeles. FOO FIGHTERS have been on hiatus since November 2015, but rumors about a new record and a second season of the FOO FIGHTERS' road documentary series, "Sonic Highways", have been circulating. The last FOO FIGHTERS album, released in 2014 and also called "Sonic Highways", was recorded while the band was filming the series.
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