Is it me? Or did August go by in a blink of an eye?
Well, there is never a dull moment around the hardDriveRadio midtown Manhattan offices! Very soon, we will be announcing yet ANOTHER hardDrive Live Tour, this one will be called the hardDrive Live FALLOUT! We’ll spill the beans next week! Stay tuned!
The Pulse Of Radio says Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell‘s new single, “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart,” has exploded on the radio airwaves, becoming the most added track this week at the active rock, mainstream rock and adult alternative formats. The song is taken from Cornell’s fourth solo studio album,Higher Truth, which arrives on Sep 18th.
Cornell told us the album, which is mostly acoustic in nature, was inspired by the solo acoustic tours he’s done over the past few years: “It has been such a rewarding thing to do that I wanted to write an album of new material that essentially supported that and make it a living thing, as opposed to it being nostalgia, you know, and just going out and playing songs from yesterday.”
The deluxe version of Higher Truth will contain four bonus tracks. Cornell will begin a tour in support of Higher Truth on Sep 18th in San Diego, winding down on Nov 4th in Phoenix. The singer has also started working on material for the next Soundgarden album, which will follow up 2012’s King Animal.
And now for some Dave Grohl news: Pulse says for a man who regularly performs in front of anywhere from 15,000 to 60,000 people a night, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl confessed in a new interview with Gold Derby he suffers from social anxiety and is nervous about attending this year’s Emmy Awards. The Foos’ HBO documentary series Sonic Highways, which Grohl directed, is up for four awards at the September 20th ceremony.
Grohl explained, “It’s just going to be such a crazy night, I just can’t imagine. I think I’ll feel like that kid who is the new kid at school, the first day at school. I’ll probably just sit down, with my back up against the wall, just nervous, and waiting to see who is going to want to talk to me. I have a little bit of social anxiety. It might seem hard to imagine, but in rooms like that, I kind of clam up. I mean put me at the f**king Grammys, and I know everybody there, and I’ve got a bottle of whiskey in my hands the whole time, but we’ll see what happens.”
Grohl’s bottle of whiskey has come in handy in other social situations, as he explained earlier this year: “Whenever I showed up at a festival, the first thing I’d do is grab a bottle of whiskey and go knocking on doors to see who the funniest people are. You’d be surprised who the real f**king nutcases are.”
Sonic Highways is nominated for Outstanding Informational Series, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Sound Mixing and Outstanding Sound Editing. It’s competing in all those categories except Informational Series against Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, the documentary on Dave Grohl’s late Nirvana bandmate. I’ll bet Dave will have that bottle of whiskey in his limo on the way to the Emmys to calm his nerves! LOL
Speaking of films, this is finally becoming a reality. The Pulse Of Radio posted the documentary called Mission To Lars, about a learning-disabled man who travels across the ocean to meet Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, will be released in select theaters and via video-on-demand services on Sep 25th in North America. The film chronicles the quest of Tom Spicer, who has a form of autism known as Fragile X Syndrome, as he makes his way from England to the U.S. with the help of his journalist sister Kate and filmmaker brother William to finally meet his idol after 20 years.
The journey takes the siblings from Tom’s care home in Exmouth, England to Bristol, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and more locations. But Tom’s disabilities, family spats and the challenges of getting backstage at a Metallica concert prove to be roadblocks. Kate said, “We had this fantasy of hitting the road with Tom . . . We thought it would be fun, bonding. We wanted to do something good for our brother. We were also sick of him endlessly asking.
Ulrich saw a rough cut of the film several years ago and told NME, “I thought it was deeply moving . . . Meeting Tom, meeting Kate, when they came out to film it was an experience in itself. But seeing the film and reconnecting with the whole team was another experience.” Although neither Ulrich nor Metallica were directly involved in the making of the movie, Ulrich added that it was a “great testament to the importance of music and what it means to different people.” All profits from the movie’s release will go to Mencap, the U.K.’s leading charitable organization for people with learning disabilities.
Halestorm performed its third album, Into The Wild Life, in its entirety during a show on Tuesday night (August 18th) in London, England, according to Blabbermouth. And I believe it was the first of two shows they did that night. Fan-filmed footage of the event has been posted online. (Here and here, too!) Playing a relatively new album from front to back is a fairly bold move for a band, but singer Lzzy Hale told us earlier this year the record lends itself to that: “This entire record is like one big song with different elements to it, so it’s hard to pick it apart — for me, it’s hard to pick it and say, ‘Oh, well, that’s my favorite song,’ because they all don’t sound alike and each one lends itself to the other.“