Kaz and Jules from Redlight King are making their way into the hardDrive studios today here in NYC. The band is on The Ones To Watch Tour, and I think Kaz has been traveling with his motorcycle. I will remind him in NY state, you have to wear a helmet, unlike California and some other idiotic states who think it’s cool to NOT wear one. Geez. Anyhow, there’s a picture of Kaz not riding, but STANDING on his bike (sans helmet, leathers or any protection, just a white t-shirt and jeans) going across what appears to be the First Street Bridge in downtown LA. I will be chewing him out later for that stunt! What, am I a mother or what? LOL…..Yesterday, had a splendid time with Duff McKagan and Jeff Angell of The Walking Papers. Those guys were a lot of fun, verbose and again, their self titled album is a joy to listen to. After the interview, Duff told Jeff I was one of the best interviewers he’d encounter. “She knows her stuff.” I was very flattered. ;> Anyhow, please search out their music and listen to it, more than once….Just watched the trailer for the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. It’s a period piece about a struggling folk singer’s career in the early stages. Check it out…..And my friend Dave Grohl is in the news again today. Love that. The Foo Fighters frontman was asked by XFM in the U.K. for his thoughts on the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of Nirvana‘s In Utero, the final studio album by the band and second that Grohl played drums on. Grohl said, “I recognize myself back then and I remember what it was like to be in the band but it’s hard to believe that that much time has gone by. A lot has happened in those 20 years, when I think about In Utero and what the world was like, what my life was like back then, it’s strange.” He added, “From the time that Nevermind came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years and a lot happened in those few years. I look back at this album and looking at the packaging and the old pictures and listening to songs that I haven’t heard in 20 years, all of these rarities and demos, it’s kind of a trip.” Nirvana did record some demos after In Utero came out and cut its final song, “You Know You’re Right,” in 1993. Grohl recalled the sessions for that track:“We had some time off before a tour, and Kurt wanted to go in and demo some stuff, so I said, ‘Hey, why don’t we do it at this studio down the street from my house.’ And we went down there, and we had three days booked. Kurt came in the last day and we were like, ‘Okay, what do you wanna do?’ And Kurt said, ‘Well, why don’t we do that song we’ve been doing at soundcheck?’ And so we rehearsed it, I think, once, and then recorded it. Kurt did three or four vocal takes, and that was it.” A previously unheard instrumental called “Forgotten Tune” will be among the 70 tracks included on the three-disc deluxe reissue of In Utero, which is set for release on Sep 24th. The rest of the material on the jam-packed set will consist of remastered, remixed, rare and unreleased demos, B-sides, alternate takes and live recordings, along with two different mixes of the 12-song album. The In Utero package will be issued in several configurations, including a three-CD/one-DVD “Super Deluxe” edition, plus two-CD, three-LP and digital versions. I want one. (Thanks Pulse of Radio)….Korn is featured in the new edition of Metal Hammer. Check out the killer cover of the mag with a Cyborg Jonathan Davis. There is a great video interview with JD, Head and Munky in there as well. Also, I just noticed the mag is premiering a new Nine Inch Nails tune called “Everything.” Check that out here. Plus there are some other items I need to read about Skindred and they are streaming in new Avenged Sevenfold album! Now you get to have the hairs on your arms stand up like I did…. Yesterday I also interviewed 3/5’s of the Charming Liars, from England. They are really nice fellas just getting started here in the states. Their EP and album, “New Disorder,” was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica) and John Fields (Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Andrew WK). Check them out on their Facebook and watch the video for “New Disorder.” Well done! Find them and The Walking Papers on the third stage on Rockstar Uproar right now!….Device has released a new music video for the song “You Think You Know” from the band’s self-titled debut album. The clip was filmed by director P.R. Brown, was also behind the camera for the first video issued from the disc for the song “Vilify.” Singer David Draiman told us about the inspiration behind “You Think You Know”: “You know, that’s a relationship-based song. I’m sure that there are many, many people out there who can relate to being in relationships where your partner tends to think that their version of the story is the only accurate one and the only true one, and their sense of reality becomes very skewed, and people end up relying on their own truths, which may not in fact be true. That’s really kind of a reality check.”…Happy 65th today to Robert Plant. I had an encounter with him nearly 40 years ago when the band played a small club in Schenectady, NY. We’ll leave it at that. Happy 43rd to Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit (you should see the film he directed called The Education of Charlie Banks. It was really good.) and Happy 59th to TV weatherman Al Roker. Is he always that happy?
