Geez, hard to believe we’re only a couple of weeks from Labor Day, a slippery slope to fall and winter after that. Waaaaah! OH MAN, I finally finished watching the 4th season of AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” If you haven’t seen this series and have Netflix, you will be addicted to it once you start watching from the beginning. Plus, no commercial breaks! 🙂 So now I can start this new season, which is the last one. What will I do when it’s done? (OK, I know, get a grip)….So much new music out there! Stone Sour has “Gone Sovereign”/”Absolute Zero” on their www.houseofbonesandgold.com site. Phil Labonte of All That Remains leaked a track from his band’s forthcoming A War You Cannot Win album called “Down Through the Ages,” and Three Days Grace released “Chaulk Outline” & lyric video for it from their forthcoming Transit of Venus that’s available digitally today. Drummer Neil Sanderson said about the new disc’s musical direction, “We went for a tighter, more articulated sound on this record. The music we were writing was a little more intricate than in the past, and we’ve been experimenting with new instruments. We wanted to present these new ideas concisely without going over-the-top in ambience and overall production.” I am trying to schedule Adam Gontier for an interview next week, so stay tuned for that! Also working on chatting with Benny from Gaslight Anthem. The band is starting to make some noise out there and are currently over in Europe…..New CD/DVD out today, Staind‘s Live From Mohegan Sun. We’ll have copies to givewaway soon, so stay tuned! Meanwhile, get yourself a Blu-Ray of Slipknot‘s “(sic)nesses: Live at Downlad” now right over ont he home page! ….Getting closer to launching the hardDriveLiveTour.com site and it’s looking very cool! Can’t wait for the tour to start with two warm up shows, Sep 11th in West Greenwich, Rhode Island at Rock Junction and Sep 12th at the Highline Ballroom here in NYC. Then the official tour starts in Flint, MI at the legendary Machine Shop on Sep 20th! One of these days I want to get up there just to be a show. Every band I talk to loves that place!….I updated Slash‘s itinerary in Road Rage! They’ll be out with Foxy Shazam, the most fun band to watch live!…..And finally today, Guns N’ Roses (aka The Axl Rose Band) will launch its first-ever residency on Halloween, Wednesday, Oct 31st when the band plays the first of 12 shows at the Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. According to the group’s publicist, the “Appetite For Democracy” run will last through Saturday, Nov 24th, with the band playing a set list exclusively created for these shows. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Aug 17th) at the Hard Rock box office and all Ticketmaster locations, with prices starting at $45….And tickets go on sale Friday for the HARDDRIVE LIVE TOUR! For now, see Road Rage until the tour site with links to buy tix is launched! Stay tuned kids!
