Episode #1: "Chicago"

Debut: FRIDAY, OCT. 17 (11:00 p.m.-midnight ET/PT)

Other HBO playdates: Oct. 17 (1:00 a.m.), 18 (1:00 p.m., 1:45 a.m.), 19 (2:00 a.m.), 20 (11:00 p.m.), 21 (11:05 p.m.) and 23 (2:15 p.m., midnight)

HBO2 playdates: Oct. 18 (8:00 p.m.) and 22 (1:55 a.m.)

Chicago has been a mecca for such diverse acts as Cheap Trick, Etta James, Smashing Pumpkins, Herbie Hancock, Chicago and Kanye West. This episode chronicles the city's musical evolution from the blues of Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters in the '50s and '60s, to the quintessentially midwestern rock of Cheap Trick in the '70s and the punk rock of the '80s, as exemplified by Naked Raygun. At Electrical Audio studios, Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters connect with owner Steve Albini, a Chicago musical icon as a founding member of Big Black and Shellac, who produced and recorded Nirvana's third album, "In Utero." Later, they're joined by Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen to record "Something from Nothing," the first song on Foo Fighters' new album.