Here are the rock star guests joining Lou Brutus for Halloween Week on HardDrive Radio and HardDrive XL!

Starting Monday October 26, Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach and Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills will join us each night as dual Featured Artists of the Week on HardDrive XL. Other Special Guests with Halloween music and stories will include Motionless in White, Slash, Dayseeker, Black Veil Brides, and In This Moment. The historic interview segments in our newest feature The HardDrive Archive will include Rob Zombie Marilyn Manson, GHOST, AVATAR, and Slipknot.

Over the weekend of October 31/November 01, it’s our annual Halloween Hootenanny! Spooky Season music and stories with our guests we speak to Papa Roach, Slash, Ice Nine Kills, Theory of a Deadman, Hollywood Undead, and Dayseeker. Plus, we unveil the new Screamer of the Week!

It’s Made Loud to Play Loud on HardDrive Radio, as we continue to celebrate our 30th anniversary!

This weekend, Lou Brutus will be covering The Power to the People Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia MD. Curated by Tom Morello, the lineup is stacked with artists from across the music spectrum including Foo Fighters, Serj Tankian, Taylor Momsen, Matter Cameron of Soundgarden, Mike McReady of Pearl Jam, Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Dave Matthews, Jack Black with Jack Sabbath, Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath, Joan Baez, Shepard Fairey, Grandson, Bruce Springsteen, and many others.

Gathering both interviews and images, it will be a busy weekend for LB. Watch for him backstage and in the photo pit. Then check out the content on HardDrive Radio and on the socials. 

This weekend on HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus, we will present our 30th Anniversary show! Debuting over the 4th of July in 1996, we’ve spent each week over the last three decades bringing you kick ass new Rock music and conversation with the stars who make it. However, for this special occasion, we will draw each of the interviews from the HardDrive Archive. You’ll hear from Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, David Draiman of Disturbed, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Jonathan Davis of KoRn, and Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch. Plus, each song we play (except one) will be drawn from our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. It features one tune from each year of the show’s history. Be sure to join us for this incredible look back at our thirty-years of Rock!

As the original weekend edition of HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus celebrates its 30th anniversary over the 4th of July weekend, we are marking the occasion with our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. Beginning with the program’s debut in 1996 and going right up to 2025, we’ve taken one song from each year of the show’s three-decade history. The selections are based on each tune’s original show airplay and listener requests in that given year, coupled with sales and streaming numbers. We know everyone will love the list and no one will disagree with any of the selections! Click on the graphic to see the full list!

We’ll use the list for the songs on the 30th anniversary edition of HardDrive Radio with all of the guest audio drawn from our extensive archives. Made Loud to Play Loud!

Everyone at HardDrive Radio is pumped for the 2026 edition of ROCK FEST in Cadott WI! It runs July 16, 17 and 18, with a Bonus Bash show on the 15th. Our own Lou Brutus returns as host of a lineup that’s crammed with amazing artists! The list includes The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Gojira, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Hollywood Undead, I Prevail, Machine Head, Set It Off, Static-X, Body Count, Insane Clown Posse, Lacuna Coil, Badflower, Autumn Kings, Story of the Year, Magnolia Park, Upon A Burning Body, Ded, Zero 9:36, Des Rocs, Miss May I, Bones UK, Ill Nino, Butcher Babies, Until I Wake, and tons of others. The Bonus Bash night will feature Candlebox, Buckcherry, Dying Wish, and more. Lou will be backstage interviewing the bands, onstage hosting the music, and in the pit capturing photos and video. Plus, he will be doing a special meet and greet, too! Hit https://rock-fest.com for info. See you there!

It’s time for the annual Year End Rear End Revue on hardDrive with Lou Brutus. Over the weekend of December 27/28 2025, it’s a two-hour look back at the best hard rocking music of 2025. Our guests will include Shinedown, Halestorm, Tom Morello, Taylor Momsen, The Devil Wears Prada, and Nevertel.

Then this coming week on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus will feature our New Year’s Eve Special. We’ll look back at the biggest music, artists, and news of the year! Our guests for New Year’s Eve on December 31st 2025 will include Disturbed, Shinedown, System of a Down, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, Mudvayne, Slash, Deftones, Tom Morello, and Megadeth. Made Loud to Play Loud all year long!

Your holidays will ROCK with the return of both our annual Nightmare Before Christmas and Merry Riffmas Week on HardDrive and HardDrive XL with Lou Brutus.

Over the weekend of December 20/21, the Nightmare Before Christmas on HardDrive brings you two-hours of hard rocking holiday sounds and stories from our guests KoRn, Corey Taylor, Halestorm, Rise Against, Skillet, and The Black Crowes.

Then we kick off Merry Riffmas Week on hardDrive XL beginning Monday December 22. Joining us each night as Featured Guitarist of the Week will be Tom Morello. Other special guest guitarists will be Wolfgang Van Halen of Mammoth, Dan Donegan of Disturbed, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Slash of Guns ‘N’ Roses, and Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch.

It’s all Made Loud to Play Loud for the holiday season!

BEST OF 2025! Through the end of year, we are highlighting the best albums, songs, and live music from the 2025. We’re rolling choices each day on the HardDriveRadio socials, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Ghost, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, Mudvayne, Sleep Token, Mammoth, Rob Zombie, Chevelle and many others have already been lauded. What are YOUR top picks for this year? Respond back to our social media posts.

It’s been a busy run of live concerts around the country for Lou Brutus and HardDrive Radio!

In recent weeks, Lou Brutus has been to Baltimore MD to cover Deftones, then in Des Moines IA to host the L.D. 50 25th Anniversary Tour featuring Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended. This was followed by a run of days traveling on the Rise of Roach Tour with Papa Roach, Rise Against, and Underoath. It included a day off in Washington DC where Lou took the band to some of the nation’s finest art galleries! He then bounced back to Madison WI to host the nEVEREST Tour with Halestorm, Lindsey Stirling, and Apocalyptica. While in town, LB also took to time to photograph the former site of Smart Studios, where classic albums were recorded by the likes of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others. Soon after, Lou doubled back to the east coast for Seether, Daughtry, and P.O.D.

Upcoming shows and tours you can catch LB on include Tom Morello, Mammoth, Set it Off, Shinedown, and Jelly Roll.

Hit both the HardDriveRadio and LouBrutus socials to see the photos and videos!

Lou Brutus would like to thank HardDrive Radio listeners around the world for the outpouring of love in response to the passing of his beloved friend Darla the Wonder Dog. 

Known throughout the world for her feisty personality and voracious hunger, Darla’s guitar picks and stickers can be found backstage on virtually every Rock tour on the planet. We send our very best to Darla’s family, friends, and fans.