Man, when can we stop hearing about all these tragedies? The Pulse Of Radio reporting this morning Kid Rock discovered the body of his personal assistant on the grounds of Rock’s estate in the Nashville area yesterday morning (Apr 25th), according to the Tennessean. The 30-year-old man, identified as Michael Sacha, was killed in an apparent ATV accident, police said.
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Sacha is believed to have died after driving guests who were attending a barbecue on the estate to an Uber car waiting for them at the property’s driveway around midnight. He apparently lost control of the vehicle and crashed on his way back to the residence, police said.
Rock and a friend found Sacha on an embankment late Monday morning and called for help, according to police. Rock said in a statement that he was “beyond devastated,” adding, “(Sacha) was a member of our family and one of the greatest young men I have ever had the pleasure to not only work with, but also to become friends with. I know I speak for us all in sharing my deepest condolences to his family. I cannot imagine how they must feel.”
The singer, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, was supposed to return to his main home in Michigan but decided to stay in Tennessee until he could accompany the body back himself. Apparently responding to rumors that it was Rock himself who was killed in the accident, Rock said, “We’ve already been contacted by the press asking if it was me who was in the accident, so I want to stop any rumors before they spread. I’m asking everyone to please respect our and his families’ privacy in this difficult time. RIP Mike. We will never forget you, my friend.”
I love this because you know how much all of us here at hardDrive love this woman! Halestorm‘s latest tour, which kicked off on April 1st, has featured the legendary Lita Ford as direct support and it was only a matter of time before Ford and Halestorm frontperson Lzzy Hale got together onstage. That happened last Wednesday (April 20th) in Spartanburg, South Carolina, when Hale joined Ford on the latter’s classic hit, “Close My Eyes Forever.”
Ford originally recorded the song in 1988 for her album Lita with Ozzy Osbourne on guest vocals, while Hale recorded a cover of it in 2013 with Disturbed singer David Draiman‘s side project Device.
Also on the bill for this tour is the female-fronted band Dorothy, with whom Hale also recently shared the stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a run through Foghat‘s “I Just Want To Make Love To You.”
Following its headlining run, a couple of shows with Rob Zombie and a slew of festival dates, Halestorm will team up with Shinedown later this summer for the Carnival Of Madness tour, which kicks off on Jul 20th in Southhaven, MS and winds down on Aug 18th in Detroit. Looking forward to see Halestorm tomorrow night here in NYC!
If you were of a certain age, then you probably LOVED Twin Peaks when it was a regular series on TV. First episode was Apr 08, 1990. Directed by cult director David Lynch, it was the freakiest show on TV. Sort of the great-grandfather of shows like American Horror Story (for it’s surrealism) and Bates Motel, although way more cerebral than gory. The show represented an earnest moral inquiry distinguished by offbeat humor and surrealism It was a mystery to try to find out who killed a local high school student, Laura Palmer.
Well, flip to 2016 and news comes of a reduxe of the series Showtime will present, with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor being casted in roles!
It is not known what roles they’ll be playing. Neither musician has any noteworthy acting credits: Vedder played a member of Matt Dillon‘s band in the 1992 movie Singles, while Reznor has appeared as an actor in the movies Light Of Day and Recycled. Both have composed music for films, however, with Reznor winning an Oscar for his score to 2010’s The Social Network.
Reznor’s wife Mariqueen Reznor has also been cast in the show. The 217-person cast list also features actors Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Michael Cera, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Amanda Seyfried, as well as a number of original cast members such as Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Sherilyn Fenn, Wendy Robie and David Duchovny. The revived series, which is being brought back by original creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, will air in early 2017, but an exact date has not yet been announced.
Multi-platinum BUSH have announced a tour of North America set to kick off this summer on Jul 21 at Walker, MN Moondance Jam festival. The tour includes co-headlining dates with Chevelle, as well as special BUSH VIP packages being offered via On The List Presents. Tickets for the latter go on sale Friday, Apr 29th at 10am local. More information can be found by clicking HERE. We’ll also post the dates in Road Rage. Tour kicks off May 5th in Huntington, NY.
Yesterday did a couple of phoners. One with Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue. They have a new single “Black Honey” from their forthcoming To Be Everything Is To Be Nothing album, which drops on May 27th. Band kicks off their tour in June, and you can find the dates on the Road Rage page.
Also got a surprise call from Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch. The band is going to head out this fall to do more dates with Shinedown, and the tour will include a new band called As Lions, fronted by the son of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickenson. Sixx AM will also be on the bill. Tour starts Oct 18 in Little Rock, AR and ends mid Dec. What dates we already know are posted in Road Rage. Pre-sale is tomorrow and tickets to general public at 10 AM on Friday. Man, this is a hugely busy touring season. Can’t wait to see all these great shows coming through.
The Pulse Of Radio also reporting following their second headlining set at the Coachella Festival in Indio, CA this past Saturday (Apr 23rd), Guns N’ Roses has added four more shows to its upcoming summer stadium trek through North America. In addition to one new date on Aug 18th at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, the Not In This Lifetime tour has also booked second nights at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Jul 3rd, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on July 20th and MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on July 24th.
The tour kicks off on June 23rd in Detroit, with dates booked through August 22nd in San Diego.
Guns’ second Coachella set featured the live debut of two classics, “Out Ta Get Me” and “Used To Love Her,” that original members Slash,Duff McKagan and Axl Rose have not performed live together in over two decades.
This past weekend’s Coachella show was the last of seven that Guns have done since officially announcing their reunion, which kicked off with an April 1st gig at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Axl Rose will now nurse his broken foot and prep for his upcoming stint as guest vocalist with AC/DC, which starts in Europe on May 7th and end just a week before the Guns tour starts. Axl is also slated to perform 10 North American shows with AC/DC as well, with the dates yet to be determined.
And finally today, only in NY, kids, only in NY! Pulse says Green Day, minus bassist Mike Dirnt, played a surprise show in downtown Manhattan on Saturday night (Apr 23rd) in conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival. According to Green Day Authority, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and drummer Tre Cool were joined by guests Joan Jett,Jesse Malin and Jeff Matika for a short, five-song performance that included a cover of Jett’s “Bad Reputation.”
The show took place to celebrate the world premiere at the festival of the new film Geezer, in which Armstrong has the lead role as a middle-aged rock star having a midlife crisis. The gig also featured live performances of two new songs called “Devil’s Kind” and “Ordinary World,” both written for the movie by Armstrong.
Green Day has reportedly been back in the studio recently, working on what will be its 12th full-length effort which we hear could be released this year. The trio’s last release, a triple set of albums titled Uno!, Dos! and Tre!, arrived in late 2012. The band has kept a low profile since completing the touring cycle for those records, surfacing last year for its induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2015 and playing some scattered club shows.