Stop A Bully Month is on! hardDrive and hardDrive XL is taking an all out assault on the problem of bullying and teen suicide with interviews from artists who lend their stories and advice, to Public Service Announcements from our superstar bands. Hopefully it can help in some way. It all comes around to the Kindness Project. Let’s share some act of kindness to make the world a better place. I know, sounds unattainable, but you’d be surprised. And, despite how f’ed our government is, there’s gotta be a silver lining somewhere out there. To our listeners who are being impacted by it, maybe this is the time to do volunteer work. Help out at a soup kitchen or hospital. Roll up our sleeves and do community service. It might just make us feel better about life. OK, enough of my rantings…..Loudwire did a great job covering the opening night of the hardDrive Live-Outbreak Tour! Check out the excellent photo spread of Bullet For My Valentine, Black Veil Brides, Stars In Stereo (and I guess they weren’t there in time to see Throw The Fight) here! Need tickets? Click here……Spoke with Neil Sanderson from Three Days Grace yesterday and he told me the band has a TON of new songs they are ready to hit the studio to lay down later next month! They are always writing, always creating music and, man, with the experiences they’ve had this past year, it’s no wonder they are going in a heavier tip! I like it! One thing Neil and guitarist Barry can’t wait for (besides hockey season) is hunting season! Avid hunters and fisherman they are!….Pulse of Radio reports Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder took a swipe at the pop music scene and the MTV Video Music Awards in his new interview with Rolling Stone, saying that the current crop of pop hits is “crap that people seem to like.” After admitting that he watched the VMAs— saying, “I was able to fast-forward through them, yes” — Vedder remarked, “These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It’s crap that people seem to like. And I don’t know if it has meaning. I don’t know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fiber in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy? I don’t know.” The singer added, “Maybe it’s some kind of way of taking themselves away from their problems. Maybe there’s some healthy property or some restorative property that I’m not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.” Questioned about the lack of rock bands on the charts, Vedder said, “Bono talked a lot about, you know, ‘We can’t let rock & roll become a niche.’ I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of crazy. I have more faith in it than that.’ But I can definitely see his point.” Pearl Jam’s 10th studio album, Lightning Bolt, comes out in 2 weeks on Oct 15th. Asked about many of the lyrics dealing with mortality and aging, Vedder said, “They say to write what you know. I think that’s maybe one thing that we all know (laughs). It’s living while you’re alive, and living to the day you die, and being cognizant of the end, and you might lead a more appreciative life, if that’s part of your approach.” Pearl Jam kicks off a North American tour on Oct 11th in Pittsburgh, with the first leg ending the weekend of Nov 1st at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. The second half of the trek starts on Nov 15th in Dallas, wrapping on Dec 6th in Pearl Jam’s hometown of Seattle….Want to see more interviews with Metallica talking about their 3-d movie, Metallica: Through the Never? Check out Lars Ulrich being interviewed by Movie City News. (Wanring: f-bombs) LOL….Boy, how bad did things get between Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne this year? Pretty damn bad! Pulse reports when Sharon found out her husband of 30 years had relapsed into drug and alcohol abuse, things got really nasty, according to an excerpt from Sharon’s new memoir that was published by U.K. tabloid The Sun over the weekend. Sharon writes she found out about the Black Sabbath singer’s drug abuse on their 30th wedding anniversary when she saw texts on Ozzy’s phone asking people to supply him with drugs and and saying, “Don’t tell the old girl.” Sharon confronted Ozzy and he promised to go to rehab, but ended up fleeing to the U.K. instead. Sharon retaliated by selling off all of Ozzy’s prized cars, recalling. “There was no way I was going to risk him getting in one of them while he was drunk and hurting someone . . . Ozzy says now that it proved to be the most expensive drink he’s ever had.” When the couple reunited in Los Angeles a few weeks later, Ozzy was so “cocky and arrogant” that Sharon says she “snapped,” demanding a divorce and asking for 100,000 British pounds — around $162,000 — a month in spousal support. Sharon writes when Ozzy replied, “Over my dead body,” she threw a cup of coffee at his head, adding, “Then I grabbed him and pulled at his precious hair with one hand, while trying to yank off his jewelry with the other. He went for me, trying to grab me in a headlock.” Ozzy told us a while back that despite critics always saying that Sharon controlled his career and life, the truth was in fact the opposite: “My wife does not get involved with telling me about working. I tried retirement, it sucked. If I don’t want to do anything, my wife can’t make me do anything I don’t want to do.” The estranged couple met up again in May after Ozzy had finally gone to rehab and was sober for two months. Sharon writes, “It seemed like forever since I’d looked into my husband’s eyes, but now I was looking into sober eyes. The man I loved was present. I could tell he was relieved to be sitting next to me. I put my hand on his, took him in my arms and we cried.” The couple moved back in together in June. Sharon’s book, called Unbreakable, is due out this month. Black Sabbath wrapped up a North American tour last month in support of its reunion album, 13, and will tour the U.K. in December…..Korn will broadcast their Oct 5th Family Values Tour stop in Denver on AXS TV! The night features Korn with Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria, Beware Of Darkness and rapper Machine Gun Kelly. Hit Korn.com for more and hit Loudwire for pix from their NYC show! (I had to drive upstate for a family event, so I couldn’t get there! Bummed!)…..Jennifer D of Hattiesburg, MS and listener of 97-9 ‘CPR is the winner of our ROB ZOMBIE GREAT AMERICAN NIGHTMARE contest! She gets to go to LA to spend 3 days/2 nights at the festival which will feature headliner Rob Zombie with Powerman 5000 on Nov 2 and she’ll get to hang out in Rob’s 3 haunted houses!
