Good Tuesday, folks! Flood watch in NYC. Which is scary. We have rats. I think they know how to swim…..While Lou Brutus is packing his bags for Rockfest Cadott this weekend, one of the bands on the Friday bill, Alter Bridge, just announced a round of new dates. See Road Rage. Looks like these will be the band’s final dates behind their Fortress album, which means Myles Kennedy will start to get to work with Slash and Mark Tremonti will start work on the next Tremonti album. So win win all around, eh?…. Lindsey Stirling with Lzzy Hale on Good Morning America. Should be on YouTube later today if you missed it live! If you look closely, you can see Joe Hottinger in on the set, too!…..AH! My favorite song on the new Hellyeah album is called “Moth.” The band has finally posted a video for it. Watch it here!….Brian Johnson of AC/DC! Ya gotta love him! He was given the honorarium title of Doctor of Music from Northumbria University in Newcastle, England on Wednesday Jul 09. Check it out here….In This Moment will be announcing a new tour very soon with Starset and Twelve Foot Ninja! Great bill! More on that in the coming weeks. I hear the new ITM album takes the band to yet new levels. Can’t wait!….Theory Of A Deadman are filming a new video for “Savages,” the title track of their album, and are hoping to have guest vocalist Alice Cooper join them. Coop is currently on a massive tour. More on that soon…..You Me At Six are coming to visit me this morning at the hardDrive studios. Looking forward to meeting them! And I just got turned onto a track they did a couple of years ago called “Bite My Tongue” with Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon. I love it! Watch the video here! You Me At Six will kick off their US tour on Sep 15th with Young Guns in Los Angeles at the world famous Troubadour! Exciting news on this coming soon! Be sure you are a registered hardDriveRadio Radical or else!..Billy Corgan will take time out from recording the next two Smashing Pumpkins albums, both due in 2015, to perform a very special, exclusive hometown acoustic-based solo concert Saturday, August 30 at Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the oldest outdoor music festival in America and the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1936. The singer/songwriter/guitarist and multiple Grammy Award winner’s set will encompass material from the Pumpkins’ acclaimed, multi-platinum catalog, including a “Mellon Collie Suite” of songs to celebrate the 20th anniversary of writing the album. Concertgoers will also be treated to his songs with Zwan from their one-and-only 2003 album and his 2005 solo album TheFutureEmbrace plus songs from his unreleased ChicagoKid album (recorded before TheFutureEmbrace), a song cycle about his hometown. More information and tickets are available here. “I feel many of my songs are under-represented by the construct of playing in the Pumpkins, which is almost always loud,” says Corgan, whose only other acoustic-based show took place at Chicago’s Metro in 2004. “And I look forward to the intimacy of that kind of performance no matter how big the stage is.” On the set list will be some material from the Smashing Pumpkins album Adore, due out this fall (release date October TBA) in a multiple CD/DVD configuration via Virgin/Ume. Since he’s been busy preparing this reissue. In other news, Corgan will be honored with the Alternative Press Vanguard Award at the Inaugural Alternative Press Music Awards, to be held at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum in Cleveland, OH on Monday, Jul 21. I’ve heard some of the new material and it harkens back to the rockin’ early days of the Pumpkins. Could Melissa Auf der Maur be returning to the Pumpkins’ fold?…New in stores today: Rise Against The Black Market….Happy 41st today to John Dolmayan of System Of A Down, Happy 58th to Marky Ramone and Happy 48th to Jason Bonham!