Today, tickets are on sale for the hardDrive Live/Monster Energy Outbreak Tour with Bullet For My Valentine and Black Veil Brides! Hit www.harddrivelivetour.com! Tomorrow the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem begins in hot, dirty, steamy San Bernardino, CA where the air temps tomorrow will go as high as 105!! People, please stay hydrated and drink lots of water between those beers! LOL We’ll be making an announcement on Monday about our involvement with this year’s Uproar Tour, so keep your eyes on the site!…. There are still some major oversights when it comes to bands who are worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, a Hall of Famer himself, told writer Peter Makowski he is working on getting his all-time favorite band, Deep Purple, a long-overdue spot in the Hall. Asked why the creators of “Smoke On The Water” were not in there yet, Ulrich said, “What you’ve got to understand is that a lot of the people that have run the selection process are critics, and Deep Purple, as you know, were never a critic’s band — especially in America, because their influence was probably felt more in Europe.” But Ulrich added, “It’s only a matter of time. Rather sooner than later. We’ve already lost one member. The fact that Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are in and Purple is not is one of the crimes of that whole institution. We’ll get them in soon enough. I’m working on it.” Bands like Kiss, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, who paved the road many of the hard rock bands we love today, are also on the list of overlooked bands. And finally this year, they did get it right inducting Rush. Come on, Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone publisher) and the old guard over there, get on it, will ya?….Pulse Content also reports one of the most acclaimed elements of the new Superman movie, Man Of Steel, is its score by Hans Zimmer, who chose not to imitate the famous 1978 movie theme by John Williams, but went for something more percussive instead. To get what he wanted, Zimmer recruited a ton of drummers to come and perform on the film’s soundtrack, and now a behind-the-scenes video clip of the sessions has surfaced. In the clip, we see Tool‘s Danny Carey, ex-Nine Inch Nails and current Sublime With Rome drummer Josh Freese, former Pearl Jam stickman Matt Chamberlain, Jason Bonham, Pharrell Williams, Sheila E. and many more in action, with only Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters incredibly not present. What???!!!!…..My friends AFI will release their ninth studio album this fall, according to a press release issued by the band’s publicist. The yet-to-be-titled album will also be the first through the Goth-punk group’s new deal with Republic Records. Singer Davey Havok said, “We are thrilled to be joining the Republic family for the release of our ninth record. We’ve spent over two years realizing this album and could not be more excited to share it with all.” Cool!….Sick Puppies dropped in yesterday and we did interviews for the shows as well as the website, so be listening and watching! The band has planned out their fall tour and when they return to LA, they’ll be in rehearsals. And before their headlining shows this fall, they will be in Des Moines, IA on Jul 14, and the day of the release of the Connect album, Jul 16th, Sick Pups will hit Omaha’s Sokol Auditorium, plus Oklahoma City on the 18th. For more: www.sickpuppiesworldcrew.net ….We mentioned Joey Jordison‘s new side project, Scar The Matryr the other day. Here is some more info I found on Blabbermouth. “With this project, I focused my efforts on writing for the better of the song,” says Jordison. “I wasn’t worried about flash or persona… It’s all about writing a good solid song. I’m writing music that people can grasp and hold on to…something that resonates. If you don’t have that, then you have nothing.” He added, “I’d been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the ‘All Hope Is Gone’ tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff I had to take a step back and stop working on it,” as explained to Metal Hammer magazine. “The time wasn’t right. But I came up with a bunch of material that was really killer and heavy and started taking some of it in a different direction. I started focusing on a lot of the post-punk and industrial stuff that I’ve always loved and started putting super heavy and brutal guitars over the top of it. That’s how it started. It’s taken me a couple of years to get to this point, but I can honestly say this is the most satisfied I’ve ever been in the studio. I can’t wait for everyone to hear this shit.” Check out a video teaser here…..Today, Happy 87th to Mel Brooks (Watch Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein today) and Sunday, Happy 45th to Philip Anselmo and Happy 47th to Iron Mike Tyson!
