Good morning! New features are coming to the new hardDriveRadio APP! We are in the laboratory and formulating really great additions to the already jam packed free app. If you haven’t already, get it now at iTunes and Google Play……Pulse of Radio reports Foo Fighters have a response to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons‘ recent comment that “rock is dead” and it’s “not so fast.” The band posted its reply on Twitter, good-naturedly referring to Simmons as “Mr. God of Thunder” after his signature Kiss song. Simmons told Esquire magazine last week — in an interview conducted by his son Nick — that “rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won’t because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it. Simmons went on to elaborate that as a result of file-sharing and other issues, record label support for rock music was not available like it was when Kiss was coming up, concluding, “It’s finally dead. Rock is finally dead.” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has been a tireless champion for not just rock music the last few years, but music played on real instruments by real musicians. He said at the Grammy Awards in 2012 the music industry has been too reliant on technology to make “perfect” music: “The human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone and learn to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about being perfect. It’s not about sounding absolutely correct. It’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here (head) and it’s about what goes on in here (heart).” The last Foo Fighters album, Wasting Light, was recorded in Grohl’s garage on analog tape, while the new one, Sonic Highways, has been tracked at legendary recording studios around the country while the band investigated the local music scene. The Sonic Highways album is due out on Nov 10th, while an HBO documentary series about its creation, also called Sonic Highways, will premiere on Oct 17th. Foo Fighters just announced four U.K. shows in addition to appearances at the Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas on Oct 26th and New Orleans’ Voodoo Music + Arts Experience on Nov 2nd….New singles today from Bush “The Only Way Out” and Black Veil Brides “Heart of Fire.” Black Veil Brides premiered their new single on England’s BBC Radio One on last night (Sep 8th). The track is taken from the glam-punk act’s fourth studio effort, titled Black Veil Brides, which arrives on Oct 28th. Frontman Andy Biersack told us the message of “Heart Of Fire” is simple: “The song ‘Heart Of Fire’ is about how time and circumstance change you and how the goal is always to not let the passion that you have for something that you love burn out because the world around you changes it. I mean, it’s very interesting to look at a group of people that are in a band — I think we all are more passionate today about the band maybe than we’ve ever been, and that’s a really cool thing. The song is really about allowing yourself to keep that passion burning for something that you truly enjoy.” …Rolling Stone reports Rage Against The Machine and E Street Band guitarist Tom Morello performed a new song called “Marching On Ferguson” at the Jail Guitar Doors’ Rock Out! benefit concert Sep 5th at Los Angeles’ Ford Theatre. The track was inspired by the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer and its aftermath in the Missouri city….Ex-Flyleaf vocalist Lacey Mosley Sturm has opened up about some of the reasons why she quit the band in the fall of 2012, shortly before the release of its third album, New Horizons. Speaking in a video to promote her new memoir, The Reason: How I Discovered A Life Worth Living, Sturm said several events, including getting married, having a baby and enduring the death of the band’s sound engineer Rich Caldwell changed her priorities. Sturm explained, “The one that hit the hardest was the death of our sound engineer. We did one last show with Flyleaf as a benefit for his wife Katy and their son Kirby. And it was really hard to do a show without him, and it was really hard to think it could be our last show. So I remember looking at my son after Rich had passed and just wondering to myself, if this was the last year I had with my son, how would I spend it?” Sturm added, “It was really amazing to recognize this season changing in my life and the freedom that I was gonna be able to focus on my family. And I’m so thankful for that time. And although it was really hard, I’m thankful. And that’s the reason I stepped down from Flyleaf.” Sturm’s book is due out on October 7th. Flyleaf recruited singer Kristen May as Sturm’s replacement and will release its fourth album, Between The Stars, on Sep 16th. The first single is called “Set Me On Fire.” Flyleaf will kick off a tour in support of the new disc on Oct 3rd in in Lubbock, TX. Watch Lacey here…..Nickelback have released their music video for “Edge Of A Revolution.” It’s from their forthcoming No Fixed Address, due Nov 4…. Sadly, this was reported on Loudwire. Nineties alt-rockers Days Of The New have broken up just months after reuniting for a summer 2014 tour. After missing a Sep 4th concert in Columbia, MO, frontman Travis Meeks was reportedly “dazed and incoherent” at a Sep 6th show in St. Louis, leading bassist Jesse Vest to announce the end of the group from the stage. This is the second time since the band’s 1997 debut that the original lineup has imploded. Travis has suffered from some serious mental and drug abuse issues for many many years. It’s remarkable the guy is still ALIVE. But I hate hearing this news. This was a band that was destined to be so huge. Maybe it was because they started out at a young age, and couldn’t handle the rigors of becoming successful, but whatever it was, it was just a shame. They are a talented lot. Wish them the best….Happy 4-0 to mi amigo Marcos Curiel from P.O.D.