Man, what a storm that hit NYC yesterday afternoon! I have never seen hail and such winds, which actually blew the soot of the city all over my desk and actually showered me with gunk as I looked out the window behind my desk! It was scary, really. Pounding rain! Wish that rain could have moved into the mid-west where it’s desperately needed! Come on Mother Nature, be kind!…..I hear the song title of the new Three Days Grace single will be “Chaulk Lines.” It’s coming in about a month. We hope to have the band in our studios sometime around the last week of July! Keep ya posted….Today, I am on the hotLine with Mike Mushok of Staind to talk about the upcoming Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar and their Live from Mohegan Sun cd and dvd releases. And later today, Hoobastank will stop by the hardDrive studios. Looking forward to all….Korn’s Jonathan Davis has posted a new video for his alter ego J Devil‘s tune “Evilution.” It features his buds in Infected Mushroom. And when you see it, tell me that face isn’t freaky!…..Serj Tankian has posted new tour dates on the west coast before he heads to the UK, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Luxembourg & the Czech Republic. Road Rage has the U.S. dates. Hit Serj’s site for the rest…..Clown of Slipknot says when he decides to put the drum sticks & baseball bat down and step off of the scissor lift that holds his drums, he wants his son Gage to take the reigns. Gage is around 18 now. Meanwhile, Corey Taylor was quoted in an interview on Blabbermouth saying it won’t be another couple of years before a new Slipknot album is out. Hopefully he’s exaggerating and it will be out next year….Marilyn Manson was quoted as saying he wants to have children. Now can that be called a form of child abuse?….Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor appears in a new video interview about his involvement in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2. Reznor is joined in the interview by writer David S. Goyer, studio head Mark Lamia and game director Dave Anthony to discuss the relationship between movies, music and games, as well as the creative process behind Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2. The game is due out on November 13th. (Antiquiet)….Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea is releasing a solo project to raise funds for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the music school he founded in Los Angeles. The record, an EP called Helen Burns, will be issued within the next few days. Flea wrote on Twitter, “I am putting out an EP I made by myself in a couple of days. It is obscure, arty, mostly instrumental music, except when Patti Smith sings. My EP is called Helen Burns. All proceeds from my Helen Burns EP will go towards the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It will be available for download at any price you want to pay.” ….Rumor has it the 48 Hours Festival is going to undergo a name change. Dunno why, but it will. I wonder what it will be? Sin City Orgy? Sin City Chaos? Hmmmm…..P.O.D.’s next single from Murdered Love is called “Higher.”….Happy 65th today to Queen guitarist Brian May and Happy 44th to Machine Head’s Robert Flynn.
