Man, Jul 01st already?! Geez…..Congrats to France for advancing yesterday and today,U S A needs to find a way to beat Belgium. Fingers crossed!….Just about ready to post a new video interview: this time with Sully Erna of Godsmack! Good stuff…..Seether‘s Shaun Morgan and John Humphries were in the hardDriveRadio Studios here in NYC yesterday. Had a great, albeit short, interview with them (many thanks to the guys since they had a PACKED day with a performance for Walmart and a bunch of other interviews they had to do.) Also enjoy seeing them and looking forward to their show tonight at the intimate Gramercy Theater. Good times! Their new “Isolate & Medicate” album is great and it out today! Shaun told me this experience was a dream compared to past albums when his previous record company would drive him and the band nuts! “The previous label we were on, we spent 12 years arguing every single time, being told every single time that we don’t know what we’re doing, being told every single time we have to hire writers — to the point where I pretty much lost confidence in myself and considered just quitting, because they never had one positive thing to say to us. And now we’re on a label that actually cares and actually supports us and actually makes us feel like we know what we’re doing and has our back. It’s a pretty great feeling, it’s an awesome feeling.” Love the record and hope you guys go out and grab one for yourselves! You will thank me later…..Pulse of Radio reports Rob Zombie and wife Sheri Moon Zombie are selling their house in Woodbury, CT, putting the nearly 4,700-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion on the market for just under $2.3 million. According to Variety, the nine-room colonial residence, parts of which have been standing since the mid-1700s, features plank wood floors, exposed wood beams and a handful of fireplaces, along with a library, French doors, a stone-top center island kitchen, Amityville Horror-style quarter circle windows in the bedrooms, sun porches, a loft, landscaped gardens, a guest house, two barns, an in-ground swimming pool, a tennis court and acres of lawns and open space. Take a look at the place here. Wish I had the dough!…..Noisecreep reports Tool guitarist Adam Jones posted a video online (on his Facebook -Adam Jones Tool) in which he peels off a new riff that, we hope, will end up on the next Tool album. Jones offers no other commentary about the lick, and indeed there’s been no news lately at all about the new Tool album. The band has supposedly been in the studio on and off for the past year, but there’s no sign yet of when the follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days will arrive…..Here’s one more reason why our Featured Artist of the Week, Slash, rules. Blabbermouth reported Slash was a constant visitor to Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister during the latter’s recent recovery from a series of health issues, including heart trouble and diabetes. The legendary Lemmy revealed, “He was at my house more than he’s ever been before, encouraging me. He’s a really f***ing good guy.” The 68-year-old Lemmy said that he plans to stay on the road “as long as I can,” adding, “You kind of owe it to the people that put you up here. You should deliver. But if I can’t deliver, I’m never going to be a figurehead up there and just play for money.” …Rolling Stone reports Metallica can apparently count Jack White among their supporters. About 45 minutes into his own set at England’s Glastonbury Festival this past weekend — where Metallica headlined despite outcries and protests — White played a few bars of the band’s classic “Enter Sandman.” White’s entire set — acclaimed as one of the festival’s best — has been posted online…..And finally today, I have to share this item from Pulse of Radio. We know there are a lot of Nickelback haters out there, but this is taking things too far: a man in Idaho was recently handcuffed, detained and interrogated at gunpoint by police simply for saying the band’s name out loud in public. What? Okay, here’s the real story. According to Radio.com, two officers in the city of Cour d’Alene overheard 23-year-old Dylan Swinford and 22-year-old Riker Morrow talking about the band, but thought they spoke the word “nickel sack,” which the officers mistaken took for a drug sale reference. Morrow recorded the entire incident and posted it on YouTube, where at first it seems funny until the officers actually take Swinford out of the vehicle and handcuff him, with one of the officers pulling out his gun. The two men were eventually allowed to go on their way with no charges filed. The incident has drawn enough media attention to force the police to examine the incident, with Lieutenant Stu Miller saying, “It’s being internally investigated. It’s a personnel issue. We take this type of thing very seriously and we tell our people all the time to do their job as though someone is always watching, and they are always watching.” Meanwhile, Nickelback has not issued any comment on the matter. The band is preparing its eighth studio album for release later this year, with a first single called “Revolution” allegedly arriving sometime in August…Got news last night that Marilyn Manson has signed to a new label and will be releasing a new album later this year….Happy 47 today to Pamela Anderson.