Chris Shiflett

Punk rock veteran. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. Songwriter. Modern-day guitar hero. For more than 25 years, Chris Shiflett has blurred the lines between genre & generation, balancing his fulltime band commitments with a thriving solo career. Shiflett has played a crucial role in shaping the sound and scope of modern-day rock music as a longtime member of the Foo Fighters. He's also an alum of California-based punk rock bands No Use For a Name and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Shiflett’s latest releases refocus his attention on a mix of country twang and rock & roll bang. “Sometimes you have those magic songwriting moments when your pen can barely keep up with the words and it all spills out really quickly. Somehow they always just sing and play better, looser, freer.” In this case, Shiflett is waxing about his single, "Overboard", an overdriven, mid-tempo strummer from his new album 'Lost at Sea' (Produced by Jaren Johnston.) “It’s a middle-aged love song,” says Shiflett. Nodding to the final verse of “Overboard” - “No little voices down the hall / Distracting us at all, oh no” - he jokes, “All the parents out there will understand.”