Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has released a new trailer for his documentary on Sound City produced by his own Roswell Films, which chronicles the history of the legendary Los Angeles studio where classic albums by artists ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana have been recorded. The film, which does not yet have a release date, will feature interviews with many of the musicians who recorded at Sound City as well as new musical collaborations between a number of artists. Watch the new trailer<a href="” target=”_blank”> here. See the Rolling Stone story on it here…Zoltan Bathory from Five Finger Death Punch was interviewed by MMA: Inside the Cage, and he explains his love of MMA. Check it out here. And look for Five Finger now on the Trespass America run that unleashed last Friday in Colorado. Speaking of Colorado, our hearts and prayers go out to the victims & families of the horrific shooting the Century 16 Theater last night in Aurrora at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. Light candle today……Hard to believe Guns ‘N Roses’ Appetite for Destruction was released 25 years ago! Man! Check out <a href="” target=”_blank”>this interview with Slash on Triple M Radio in Australia discussing the record…..Our sister company Pulse of Radio reports Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has told MTV News the era of concept records is over for the group with the release of their upcoming three albums, Uno!, Dos! and Tre!. Armstrong explained, “The last two albums, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, sort of bookend each other, and it’s the end of that era. I think with writing these three albums . . . we just started writing songs, just getting back to basics, more stripped-down rock and roll.” Armstrong added, “We just started noticing the changes that were happening, so Uno! is more of a power-pop record, Dos! is more of a dirty, party, garage record, and Tre! is sort of this epic ending of the whole thing… So it’s kind of like going around the world in 37 songs with Green Day.” Bassist Mike Dirnt added there is no unifying theme tying all three albums together, saying, “Each album has its own personality. They’re not tied together in concept; it’s just three different sides of Green Day. We definitely never planned to do three albums; it just ended up being fun.” Uno! will be released on Sep 25th, with Dos! to follow on Nov 13th and Tre! coming on Jan 15th, 2013…When we ran into CJ Pierce of Drowning Pool at Rock on the Range back in May, he talked to us about their new lead singer Jasen Moreno, who came from the Dallas-based band The Suicide Hook, and how they ended up recruiting Moreno: “We got a lot of submissions in for singers. For a minute there, I wasn’t sure what we were gonna do. I didn’t want to go through this whole singer thing again. And we had a guy walk in, he learned every song off every one of our CDs. He’s a really super, super cool guy, and we went in the room and in three months we wrote 17 songs together.” Look for new Drowning Pool music this fall…..Dead Sara will be support The Offspring on a handful of dates starting Aug 31. See the Road Rage page for further details….And finally today, how about this piece of rock trivia for you about Lemmy (Ian Fraser) Kilmister of Motorhead. In 1967, he shared an apartment with Jimi Hendrix’ bassist Noel Redding and got a job as a roadie for Hendrix. How awesome is that?! ….Lots ‘o birthdays today: Carlos Santana is 65, Chris Cornell is 48, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard is 46, Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother is 36 and the woman who’s body I wish I had, Gisele Bundchen is 32. I gotta go on a diet! Have a great weekend! Listen to hardDrive and hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus!
