#Re2pect! Derek Jeter. Final All-Star Game and his final season as a NY Yankee and an MLB player. He’s been amazing. How many ball players do you know who’ve played for one team and one team only in their careers! (Ok Chipper Jones.) But New Yorkers and baseball fans everywhere are gonna miss the man and the way he played. That’s CLASS!….Man, I had a blast yesterday with You Me At Six! What nice guys and what a fun interview we had. Was cool getting to know them. (And I think I may have sparked an idea about putting their 2011 song “Bite My Tongue,” featuring Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon, out here in America when they release a deluxe edition of Cavalier Youth. You’ve got to see it on YouTube!) Anyhow, after work, I met up with them at the Vevo offices right over in Times Square! What a fun bunch of folks who work over there! hardDrive may have found a fun play pal! Those guys have a party room complete with a pool table and bar on the 25th floor overlooking Times Square! Anyhow, was great times. I also got to take a peek at the upcoming video for Five Finger Death Punch. All I’m gonna say is WAIT TIL YOU SEE IT. It will blow you away!….Meanwhile, getting Lou Brutus all set up with interviews at Rockfest in Cadott, WI this weekend. He’s gonna have a blast there! Wish I was joining him, but I got to travel last weekend, so I am stayin’ put. Many thanks to Jill and the folks at Rockfest for being so accommodating! They rock!….Meanwhile, tomorrow, I will be on the hotLine with Tim McIlrath of Rise Against. I hear they shot a video down in Nigeria that makes a statement about #SaveOurGirls. That’s huge of them. Will find out more about it when I speak with Tim. The Black Market was released yesterday and I love it. Check it out over on iTunes or wherever you buy your music…..Well, now we know why there’s no Tool music! Guitarist Adam Jones and drummer Danny Carey have revealed the real reasons why the band has not made an album since 2006 in a new interview with Rolling Stone. The biggest hold-up has been a “multi-level lawsuit” that started in 2007 when a friend of the band claimed he had created artwork for the group and wanted credit for it. Then an insurance company Tool had hired for the sole purpose of defending the band against lawsuits turned around and sued the band over technicalities regarding the case. The band countersued the insurer, with the case finally going to trial next January after seven years. Carey said, “The bad thing is it’s really time consuming. As we’ve gotten older and our priorities have changed, it’s hard to get the band on a good, solid schedule as it is. People have kids now. And there’s lots of other things that pop up. To throw this into the mix, it makes everything that much worse and stresses people out.” Jones added the lawsuit has cost the band “millions and millions and millions of dollars,” saying, “We’re fighting the good fight. We’re going to trial and we want to crush them. But every time we’ve gotten close to going to trial, it gets postponed and we’ve wasted money and time and it has just drained our creative energy.” Even through all the financial and legal turmoil, Jones, Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor have come up with enough raw material for an album and have one song that’s “pretty much done,” with the rest needing further refinement before they’re sent to vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Both band members describing the overall feel of the band’s new music as “heavy,” with Jones saying, “Sometimes I feel we get a little too proggy or too into exploring time signatures but not getting heavy enough for my taste. There are some good nose-bleeding riffs happening, and I’m really happy about that. It’s not out-of-the-gate crazy heavy, but there are these little journeys with nice paths that end up very heavy.” The guitarist said that while Tool has always had complete creative freedom, the band’s legal issues have put a damper on that. He revealed, “I find it so hard to be creative when you have something awful nagging at you, just stuck between the hemispheres of your brain and affecting your sleep and your relationship with other band members . . . It’s just a shame.” Neither Jones nor Carey offered a possible timeline for when a new album might arrive, but Carey said, “I’m hoping that we have something really solid recorded by the end of the year,” Jones added, “We’re just not going to settle for doing anything but our best work, and the fans appreciate that.” (Thanks to Pulse of Radio for their report)….Adelitas Way have a new music video for an album track called “Drive.” It’s off their forthcoming album Stuck, which drops Jul 29th. The record was produced by Nick Raskulinecz in Nashville. And if you missed the “Dog On A Leash” video, click here… In This Moment has thrown its support behind an anti-suicide campaign called Never Alone, Never Unloved. Learn more about the campaign at this location. The band is currently at work on its fifth studio album, which will follow up 2012’s Blood. (Brave Words)…And last, but not least, the boys in Slipknot have posted a very creepy snippet. (I bet Clown had something to do with this!) Watch it here. Slipknot‘s official website and Facebook page have been updated with creepy images and sounds in preparation for the release of the band’s long-awaited new album, tentatively due late fall. In addition, there are all-new graphics, including a new version of the nonagram. A title and release date have yet to be unveiled for the disc, which follows up 2008’s All Hope Is Gone. (Blabbermouth)….And sorry, but yesterday we missed remembering Deftones bassist, Chi Cheng’s birthday. He would’ve been 44.