New Music Monday was amazing, right? New tunes from: Breaking Benjamin, their first new music since 2009 with the song “Failure.” It is the first single from their forthcoming album, Dark Before Dawn, due Jun 23. The band also posted all their tour dates this spring and summer and we’ve got them in Road Rage. On Saturday, I will be sitting down with Ben Burnley to discuss life on hiatus, the break-up of the old band, the new band, and more! Then Three Days Grace released the 3rd single, “Human Race,” from their new album, Human, which drops on Tuesday, Mar 31. The band will be in town next week for a show on release day and they’ll be in the hardDriveRadio Studios on April Fool’s Day! Then new stuff from Muse called “Dead Inside.” Their new album, Drones, is set for a Jun 09 release. And of course, in this week’s Smash or Crash (see the home page) , you can vote for your favorite between Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin, so get on board! Also: news of the very first hardDriveRadio APP CHAT! Yep, our very own Lou Brutus will be on the app LIVE for you to talk to on Tuesday night, Apr 07 at 11 PM ET/10 PM CT/8 PM PT. You can chat on the Interact Live page. So start thinking up some great questions to pose to Mr Brutus! Maybe you can win a prize that we’ve had in the prize closet! Ya never know! More live APP CHATS coming later this month with some artists you are gonna love. So here’s one more reason to download that free hardDriveRadio APP! And don’t forget, you can stream last night’s hardDrive XL and last weekend’s hardDrive on the app. Lots of listening there for ya in case ya missed the shows or just want to listen again!…..In the hardDriveRadio studios tomorrow, Mark Tremonti! I’ve been listening to his new album, Cauterize, Mark’s second solo record, and I gotta tell ya, it is SMOKIN’ HOT! The band is so tight, now that Wolfgang Van Halen is their bassist, along with Eric Friedman on guitar and Garrett Whitlock on drums. This record is off the charts awesome. It’s like they’re on steroids or something! It’s heavy, heavy, HEAVY! Love it! Also dropping by tomorrow, a brand new band out of Michigan called I Prevail. So be listening for all of the these killer interviews on hardDrive and hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus in the coming weeks! And the week of Apr 06-10 don’t forget, Adam Jones of Tool is our Featured Artist of the Week! We scored the interview with him that he did for Yahoo Music and are psyched to present it on hardDriveRadio! I think you are gonna be stoked to hear it….Personally, I don’t think it could happen, but hey, ya never know, right? Dave Grohl has been hinting at a possible second installment of Foo Fighters:Sonic Highways. He recently commented there are so many places in the world where he could trace music origins out of studios in England, Germany and even other U.S. cities like Detroit, Memphis and San Francisco. But the first endeavor was really time consuming and cost beaucoup bucks. But hey, he’s Dave Grohl, so anything is possible. Personally, I see him just doing documentaries on these cities and maybe not recording an entire Foo Fighters album during the making of. Only Dave knows that Dave will do! I missed the band’s live show last Tuesday night. I bet it’s online somewhere. I think that’s where he commented on some of this…..Pulse Of Radio says Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum was asked in a recent interview with Noisey if original guitarist Jim Martin, who left the band in 1993, was asked to participate in the current reunion which started in 2009. Bottum answered, “Oh, we totally reached out to him. I was of the mind that, of course we would not do this without Jim. There’s no way. I think we all felt pretty strongly about that initially — well, some of us maybe more strongly than others. Jim was a real contentious person in the band, but I loved him . . . I wanted him to do it, and I actually talked to him about it. I thought it was going that way, but it just didn’t work out.” Bottum was also asked if Martin had interest in returning. He replied, “I think he had interest. But I think he also had really pent-up resentments about the way we broke up. I think it was difficult for him to come back into the fold, and he set it up in such a way that . . . I think, unconsciously, he was gonna cut off his nose to spite his face. Like he was so damaged from resentment that he dug a hole and didn’t come out of it. Which is a shame. That’s my take.” Martin departed after completing the touring cycle for the band’s fourth album, Angel Dust. He was followed by a short succession of guitarists including Trey Spruance, Dean Menta and Jon Hudson, who was the band’s last axeman when it broke up in 1998. Hudson was also in the lineup for the current reunion and plays on the band’s upcoming album, Sol Invictus. The disc, the group’s first collection of new music in 18 years, is set to arrive on May 19th through the band’s Reclamation Recordings. Faith No More has also confirmed its first North American shows since 2010 with a spring outing kicking off Apr 15th in Vancouver….The PRP says Volbeat has released an “interactive 360-degree live video” for the song “Dead But Rising.” How does one watch such a clip? The band suggests you “watch this video with the Google Chrome Web browser to fully experience the 360-degree technology. You can freely move by dragging it with your mouse or if you are using an Android phone with (the) latest software you can control the view by moving the device.” Volbeat will return to North America this spring for one more five-week run in support of last year’s Outlaw Ladies And Shady Ladies album, beginning on April 24th in Denver…..Wow! Halo 5: Guardians trailer is coming this weekend? Is that true? I was looking at some stills of it. It looks so REAL! WOW!