Final day of July. Time, slow down, will ya? Nearly 1000 of you have already downloaded the new hardDriveRadio APP! What are the rest of you doing??!! Come on! It’s free! iPhone, iPad, Android! iTunes or Google Play! Get on it!….Today, yep, another busy one. Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon will be ringing me up this afternoon and then Alan Jones of Fifth Freedom direct from the hardDrive Live Tour will also call into the ole hardDrive hotLine. Tomorrow, Gus Wood of Young Guns. Tis the season. New music! Monday, Godsmack will be in town and have a show for I Heart Radio you can listen to on Monday night, the night before the release of their 1000hp cd! Next Thursday, Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake are scheduled to make a morning appearance on the hardDriveRadio NYC studios. Will be hearing their new music next week. Busy. Yeah….Big news this morning, NME & Pulse Of Radio report Foo Fighters have finished work on their eighth album, which the band recorded in eight different iconic studios in eight different cities over the past year. Producer Butch Vig tweeted the good news, saying, “We are officially done with the new Foo Fighters album. 23 straight days mixing! IT’S EPIC!!!” The band laid down the music for the album in cities that have a great musical history and invited local legends to contribute to the sessions as well. The results have been chronicled in an eight-part documentary series, called Sonic Highways, that frontman Dave Grohl directed. The series will air on HBO this November. Among the cities visited were Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Consequence of Sound said the as-yet-untitled album will arrive in November through the band’s own Roswell Records in conjuction with RCA. As previously reported, the band recorded the CD in eight studios across the country, which frontman Dave Grohl documented for a forthcoming series on HBO. Musicians from these various cities will appear on the album, including Gary Clark Jr. (Austin), Eagles’ Joe Walsh (Los Angeles), and Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen (Chicago). Grohl also hinted at appearances from Carrie Underwood, Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes. In an interview The Hollywood Reporter, Grohl said the unique recording process led to the band’s longest record to date, as he “had to take a cinematic approach.” Grohl continued, “Like I couldn’t just write a three-and-a-half-minute long KROQ jingle and film it for the finale of an episode about the history of music in New Orleans, ya know? We really had to step up what we do. The music is a progression or an evolution for sure, but it’s a Foo Fighters record.” Describing the album’s sound, Grohl said “you’ll recognize Foo Fighters in this record but you’ll also be surprised by us. We’re doing things that we’ve never done before.” He added, “Honestly, there are sections of songs that will really take you by surprise,” suggesting that the album may feature horns from their session in New Orleans. “And then there are choruses that you’ll just recognize as Foo Fighters within the first three seconds.” The cross-country studio tour did not, however, change Grohl’s preferred recording method. Similar to 2011’s Wasting Light, the new LP was recorded in analog using two 24-track tape machines. “Some of the places [we recorded] are houses and some are stages and some of them are old rooms so we’d have to build a studio in some of these locations. And that’s easy to do when you just open up the laptop. It’s not easy to do when you’re dragging two 800-pound two inch tape machines across the country, but we’ve done it everywhere we’ve went.” Thus far, Foo Fighters have confirmed a few shows behind the album, including a massive UK show at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September, a headlining performance at Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful Festival in October, and the band’s first-ever dates in South Africa, which are scheduled for December. I think a single is in the wings. Trying to get the label to spill the beans! Like pulling teeth! A friend was at the LA Forum the other night and got a pic with Dave. Will have to pump her for some info in case he told her anything….Slipknot loves its teaser videos and the band has just released a fifth one for its upcoming new album, which is due October. Like the others, this new clip features a series of fast-moving, creepy images, many of them familiar from the previous clips. Meanwhile a post at the band’s Facebook page features a photo of someone’s gums along with the tag, “Succumb To/The Selfish/Creation.” I understand lots of new things will be sprung on us. New masks, new costumes, new logo (???) and new sounds. Obviously with a new drummer, things are bound to be different, right? As for the album, singer Corey Taylor told us the band has finished recording and is now in post-production: “The album is done. Everything’s done. Right now we’re just, we’re getting the artwork together, we’re getting all the other accouterments together, and it’s feeling really, really good. We’re just stoked, you know. Now it’s like, ‘Okay, we need to hurry up and get it out,’ you know. So yeah, we’re really excited.” hardDrive XL listeners, make sure to be glued to the radio on Tuesday night. That’s all I’m saying!…Pulse Of Radio also says Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has revealed the working title of his fourth book is With My Eyes Open. Welch said the book will chronicle his life from 2005, when he initially left Korn, through last year when he officially rejoined the group. Welch told Pittsburgh Music Magazine, “It’s crazy. I found spirituality and I did have encounters with Christ — but I was around some wacky people too. I went through some crazy things like court cases, lawsuits. So I’m writing about that.” Welch also told us he is also working on a documentary about his reunion with the band: “It’s a Head/Korn documentary. It’s a bigger budget thing, just about like how it all works, like us coming back together but also just behind-the-scenes types of things. Family, faith, Korn, life, you know, so that’s gonna be interesting.” Find the band on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour now…..Celebrating their births today: John 5 of Rob Zombie’s merry music makers turns 43 and M Shadows (my pal Matt) is 33. Party on, boys, party on!