Here are the rock star guests joining Lou Brutus on HardDrive Radio and HardDrive XL!

Over the weekend of April 18/19 we speak to Shinedown, Papa Roach, Mammoth, Black Veil Brides, and Turnstile. We’ll also get you Plugged In with Tim Montana. Plus, there’s music news in DIRT on Killswitch Engage, Drowning Pool, and The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Then for the week of Monday April 20, Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach will join us each night as Featured Artist of the Week on HardDrive XL. Other Special Guests will include Tim Montana, Architects, Billy Morrison, Atreyu, and Theory of a Deadman.

It’s Made Loud to Play Loud with Lou Brutus on HardDrive Radio, as we celebrate our 30th anniversary!

Everyone at HardDrive Radio is pumped for the 2026 edition of ROCK FEST in Cadott WI! It runs July 16, 17 and 18, with a Bonus Bash show on the 15th. Our own Lou Brutus returns as host of a lineup that’s crammed with amazing artists! The list includes The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Gojira, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Hollywood Undead, I Prevail, Machine Head, Set It Off, Static-X, Body Count, Insane Clown Posse, Lacuna Coil, Badflower, Autumn Kings, Story of the Year, Magnolia Park, Upon A Burning Body, Ded, Zero 9:36, Des Rocs, Miss May I, Bones UK, Ill Nino, Butcher Babies, Until I Wake, and tons of others. The Bonus Bash night will feature Candlebox, Buckcherry, Dying Wish, and more. Lou will be backstage interviewing the bands, onstage hosting the music, and in the pit capturing photos and video. Plus, he will be doing a special meet and greet, too! Hit https://rock-fest.com for info. See you there!

It’s time for the annual Year End Rear End Revue on hardDrive with Lou Brutus. Over the weekend of December 27/28 2025, it’s a two-hour look back at the best hard rocking music of 2025. Our guests will include Shinedown, Halestorm, Tom Morello, Taylor Momsen, The Devil Wears Prada, and Nevertel.

Then this coming week on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus will feature our New Year’s Eve Special. We’ll look back at the biggest music, artists, and news of the year! Our guests for New Year’s Eve on December 31st 2025 will include Disturbed, Shinedown, System of a Down, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, Mudvayne, Slash, Deftones, Tom Morello, and Megadeth. Made Loud to Play Loud all year long!

Your holidays will ROCK with the return of both our annual Nightmare Before Christmas and Merry Riffmas Week on HardDrive and HardDrive XL with Lou Brutus.

Over the weekend of December 20/21, the Nightmare Before Christmas on HardDrive brings you two-hours of hard rocking holiday sounds and stories from our guests KoRn, Corey Taylor, Halestorm, Rise Against, Skillet, and The Black Crowes.

Then we kick off Merry Riffmas Week on hardDrive XL beginning Monday December 22. Joining us each night as Featured Guitarist of the Week will be Tom Morello. Other special guest guitarists will be Wolfgang Van Halen of Mammoth, Dan Donegan of Disturbed, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Slash of Guns ‘N’ Roses, and Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch.

It’s all Made Loud to Play Loud for the holiday season!

BEST OF 2025! Through the end of year, we are highlighting the best albums, songs, and live music from the 2025. We’re rolling choices each day on the HardDriveRadio socials, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Ghost, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, Mudvayne, Sleep Token, Mammoth, Rob Zombie, Chevelle and many others have already been lauded. What are YOUR top picks for this year? Respond back to our social media posts.

It’s been a busy run of live concerts around the country for Lou Brutus and HardDrive Radio!

In recent weeks, Lou Brutus has been to Baltimore MD to cover Deftones, then in Des Moines IA to host the L.D. 50 25th Anniversary Tour featuring Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended. This was followed by a run of days traveling on the Rise of Roach Tour with Papa Roach, Rise Against, and Underoath. It included a day off in Washington DC where Lou took the band to some of the nation’s finest art galleries! He then bounced back to Madison WI to host the nEVEREST Tour with Halestorm, Lindsey Stirling, and Apocalyptica. While in town, LB also took to time to photograph the former site of Smart Studios, where classic albums were recorded by the likes of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others. Soon after, Lou doubled back to the east coast for Seether, Daughtry, and P.O.D.

Upcoming shows and tours you can catch LB on include Tom Morello, Mammoth, Set it Off, Shinedown, and Jelly Roll.

Hit both the HardDriveRadio and LouBrutus socials to see the photos and videos!

Lou Brutus would like to thank HardDrive Radio listeners around the world for the outpouring of love in response to the passing of his beloved friend Darla the Wonder Dog. 

Known throughout the world for her feisty personality and voracious hunger, Darla’s guitar picks and stickers can be found backstage on virtually every Rock tour on the planet. We send our very best to Darla’s family, friends, and fans.

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are the Godfathers of Heavy Metal and a band which has always been close to our hearts. Lou Brutus has been gathering content for months to prepare for the bittersweet moment in music history, as our heroes perform their farewell and pass into the void. It begins Monday July 1st as HardDrive Radio XL rolls out a week of programs with rock stars singing the praises of Ozzy and Sabbath. Guests include A Day To Remember, ARCHITECTS, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, Halestorm, Billy Morrison, The Offspring, Shinedown, System Of A Down, and Three Days Grace. There will also be Ozzy and Sabbath covers from a multitude of Rock luminaries. The theme then continues with the weekend edition of the show. We hope you can join us as we go back to the beginning with the greatest metal band of all.God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath!

There will also be new custom guitar pick for LB done in Ozzy/Sabbath-style from InTune Guitar Picks. You’ll be able to get them direct from Lou at Rock Festor the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Of course, you can also send a self-addressed-stamped-envelope to Brutus World Industries PO Box 361 Arnold MD 21012. Supplies are limited, so act fast!

We are stoked to announced that Lou Brutus made his first ever trip to the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis SD. If that wasn’t enough, he was there to host DISTURBED at the Full Throttle Saloon!

This once-in-a-lifetime event took place on Tuesday August 5th. Lou even had special one-of-a-kind guitar picks from InTune Guitars Picks available only at the event.

Along with shooting pictures at the concert, Brutus explored the surrounding area with his cameras including Devil’s Tower, Mount Rushmore, and the Crazy Horse Memorial. You can check the images on the HardDrive Radio socials.