Hello hardDriveRadio Radicals! Lou Brutus will be interviewing Rick Dejesus of Adelitas Way and Jeremy McKinnon of A Day To Remember. And I will be chatting with Mike Kerr of Royal Blood from England. Royal Blood have announced a couple of US dates: 5/12 in Brooklyn, NY @ Grasslands, 5/13 in NYC @ Mercury Lounge and 5/15 at the Roxy in LA. Tickets for Royal Blood’s club shows on sale Friday… Here’s the rest of today’s news. Pulse of Radio reports Linkin Park’s video for its new song “Guilty All The Same” also serves as a game. According to Billboard, the six-minute video game allows fans to take apart the song and remix it or the video any way they want. Fans can do this using the tools provided in “Project Spark,” a free software platform created by Microsoft that lets players make their own video games on Xbox One and Windows 8 computers. In Linkin Park’s version of the game, the player navigates the guilt-haunted protagonist through a dark, slightly sinister environment that threatens to devour him as he tries to flee from the forces of his own guilt. Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda said, “I see this as turn-based. We’ve taken our turn, and now it’s up to the fans. Even if it’s silly, as long as it makes me laugh, I don’t mind what people do with it.” Linkin Park turntablist and video director Joseph Hahn got the idea for the interactive video while attending the annual video game convention E3. He explained, “I saw this cool demo for ‘Project Spark,’ and it just blew my mind. For me, the next step was to see if we could showcase our next song as a game instead of a video.” “Project Spark” allows users to put together their own games and share them with other players. Check it out here. And watch the Behind the Scenes footage here.… Blabbermouth reports Slipknot will bring its own festival, Knotfest, to Tokyo, Japan on Nov 15th and 16th. The event will feature more than 20 international and Japanese acts. Percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan said, “It is an honor to be able to share and enjoy our festival with Japan, the Japanese people, our fans, and all the wonderful Japanese bands and all the other bands who will be playing with us.” I also am hearing there will be at least one Knotfest in the US that will be held outside of Minneapolis. Stay tuned. And here’s a concert clip from Knotfest 2012 to hold you over. Meanwhile, the band is out in Malibu working on their new album. No date has been set, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get it before the end of the year…. Oh man, photos have emerged from an LA apartment where Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love lived in two years before Kurt took his life. They left the place a mess with graffiti on the walls and fireplace and a pile of litter and junk. Warning: included in this link are pictures from the house where Kurt took his own life. Bummer…. My British friend Ed sent me some news from over the pond about The Smashing Pumpkins from DigitalSpy‘s website. Billy Corgan announced the band plans to release two new albums in 2015. “For those interested in sound, think: ‘guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars’,” Corgan said. “But more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic. Recording sessions begin today, as plenty of songs have been written and ready to go.” Longtime collaborator Howard Willing will produce the two LPs. Corgan added fans will be able to follow the album’s progress on their new website The Panopticon, where they will post “song titles, lyrics, poetic impressions, pictures, sound clips, studio gear and the like offered for a circuitous, bird’s eye view of the process as it unfolds.” Corgan announced on the band’s website that the album titles will be Monuments to an Elegy and Day for Night and a single could come out by the end of the year….Meanwhile, the 2014 Lollapalooza line-up is shaping up with Eminem, Artic Monkey, Skrillex, Outkast, Nas, Broken Bells, Foster The People and more already announced. The annual alternative music festival will take place August 1-3 in Chicago’s Grant Park….Speaking of the Pumpkins, former guitarist James Iha (A Perfect Circle) turns 46 and my ole pal Steven Tyler(ico) of Aerosmith is, gulp, 66! Happy Birthday, fellas!