It’s HUMP DAY! And Ash Wednesday. If aliens came down and saw us walking around with black smudges on our faces, what would they think is going on? And bitter cold, not only here, but Floridians, you are getting slammed too! 42 in Miami? That’s cray cray! Global warming?….Our Detroit correspondent drove over to Kid Rock‘s house yesterday. (Bet he’s happy to be back in the Michigan winter!) “Bob” is bringing back his popular “Best Night Ever” tour for a second year. All tickets on his upcoming U.S. trek from the second row to the lawn will be priced at $20, with reduced parking and service fees keeping the total cost below $30. Participating Wal-Mart outlets will also offer “all-in” tickets that include parking in the $20 total. In addition, Rock is holding the first row open for random fan upgrades and is making 1,000 tickets from each show available through a special program to ward off scalpers. Special tour T-shirts will also go for $20 and selected draught beers will cost just four dollars. Support on the tour will come from classic rockers Foreigner. The jaunt kicks off on June 24th in Hartford, CT and will end Sep 05th in Auburn, WA. Rock is touring behind his upcoming studio album, First Kiss, due Feb 24th, and said he feels confident about playing a lot of new material in his show: “I just hope that I know when I’m turning into that guy when it’s like, you know, ‘Here’s something off the new record,’ and people are like, ‘Let’s go get some beer.’ (laughs) I don’t want to be that dude, but I do feel like a lot of these songs, you know, four or five of them, can fit into the show with still holding people’s interest and hopefully them being something they want to hear.” Kid Rock is our Featured Artist of the Week on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus starting Monday!…Drowning Pool has released a video for the song “Soul,” a previously unreleased track from the sessions for the band’s 2001 debut, Sinner. The clip, comprised of archival live footage featuring late singer Dave Williams, is being released via a new Indiegogo campaign launched by the group to raise money for the American Heart Association in his name. The band’s goal is set at $13,000, all of which will go to the AHA. Anyone who donates $30 or more will receive a special “In Memoriam” T-shirt adorned with Williams’ image. “Soul” can be found on the recently released 13th anniversary deluxe reissue of Sinner. The Sinner album arrived in June 2001 and featured the monster single “Bodies,” plus follow-up rock radio hits “Sinner” and “Tear Away.” Dave Williams passed away from heart disease on the band’s tour bus in August 2002, while the group was out promoting the record during an Ozzfest stop in Virginia. Drowning Pool recently announced the second leg of its Sinner Unlucky 13th Anniversary tour, on which the band is playing the record from start to finish. The new dates kick off on March 12th in Daytona Beach, FL…I got this from Blabbermouth. According to Forbes.com, the average price for AC/DC concert tickets for the band’s upcoming North American tour on TiqIQ is $255.82. The most expensive show of the 13-date run is Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Sep 20, with an average secondary price of $573.37 — 124.1% more than the tour average. The Vancouver show on Sep 22 is averaging $561.23. Meanwhile, Gillette Stadium in Foxoborough, MA on Aug 22 is the cheapest show on the tour, with an average price of $205.87, 19.5% below the tour average. The Sep 25 concert at AT&T Park in San Francisco has an average price of $218.71 on the secondary market. Those prices are INSANE! .. Speaking of AC/DC, AXS TV (via DirecTV) has a killer line up of music shows for you on Sunday, Feb 22. At 7 PM ET/4 PM PT: Clutch in concert. AC/DC at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Guns ‘N Roses 9:15 PM ET/6:15 PM PT…..You know Lou Brutus is very keen on UFO’s. He’s a believer. And so is this guy! Blink-182 singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge is well known for his interest in the paranormal, but in a new interview with Papermag he claims that he’s been contacted by alien beings twice, adding that his life could be in danger because he knows too much about their existence. DeLonge revealed that his first experience came at a campsite near the famous Area 51 Air Force base, where it was once rumored that the government kept alien technology from crashed UFOs. DeLonge explained he woke up at the site around three in the morning, saying, “My whole body felt like it had static electricity . . . and there’s a conversation going on outside the tent. It sounded like there were about 20 people there, talking. And instantly my mind goes, OK, they’re at our campsite, they’re not here to hurt us, they’re talking about s**t, but I can’t make out what they’re saying. But they’re working on something. Then I close my eyes and wake up, and the fire is out and I have about three hours of lost time.” DeLonge claims to have heard secret recorded testimony about technology that the U.S. government created from alien designs — and was warned to watch what he said. He recalled, “One time I remember bringing up a very specific craft that I believe we’re building . . . this engineer looks at me, this guy is 70 years old, and he goes, ‘You better be real f**king careful about what you’re talking about.’ . . . And he calls me up the next day and he goes, ‘I’ve had calls about you. If someone comes and asks you to get in their car, don’t f**king get in the car.’” DeLonge told us a while back much of our computer technology, as well as the Internet, sprang from extraterrestrial origins: “A UFO crashed in ’47 and that’s how we got integrated circuit chips and fiber optics and stuff. That’s where it’s all from. And they were scared that they didn’t know what the integrated circuit chip was. They always thought that maybe later on in the future it could lead to the demise of the world with aliens coming to this Earth. Well, what is the Internet? It’s a global-wide neurological system of computers where every single thing that we do and know and read and everything is on computers, and sent out all over the world.” Be careful, be VERY careful….Celebrating their lives today: Yoko Ono Lennon is 82! Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida is 45. Molly Ringwald is 47 and Dr Driz-ay hits the Big 5-0!