Had a great day yesterday with Breaking Benjamin! The band, Ben Burnley, Jasen Rauch (great catching up with him!), Keith Wallen, Aaron Bruch and Shaun Foist, played three songs in the hardDriveRadio performance room and we all hung out afterwards for a pizza party! But the BEST part was Ben’s wife Rhiannon brought along their son, Ben! He looks like Daddy and is the sweetest baby ever! Didn’t cry once, except when he saw me! LOL (You know how babies are when strangers get in their faces for the first time?) After he was in the company of the strangers, he was just fine! He’s only 5 months and wants to talk so badly! Ben said he’ll be 2 by the time their tour is over and plans to bring his wife and son along for the tour. I can’t wait to watch little Ben grow! BTW: One of the songs they did was a cover of Tool’s “Prison Sex.” We’ll have something new for the Cover Songshow this year! WOO HOO! Check out the band performing “Blow Me Away” Valentine’s Day 2014 in Rochester, NY…..Meanwhile, a big weekend for AC/DC! Pulse Of Radio reports AC/DC will play its first full North American show in over five years tonight (April 10th) when the band headlines the first of two shows at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California. Aside from two songs performed at the Grammy Awards in February, this will also mark the first full appearance by the new AC/DC lineup, in which guitarist Stevie Young has replaced Malcolm Young and drummerChris Slade has stepped in for Phil Rudd. Vocalist Brian Johnson told the Los Angeles Times he received words of support and encouragement earlier this week from Paul McCartney, who played Coachella in 2009. Johnson explained, “I ran into him downstairs (at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles) this (past Tuesday) morning. He goes, ‘Brian, you get on that stage and I’m telling you, you see all these kids looking for the hip-hop acts. Then they see you, and they’re like, ‘Who’s he? Oh, yeah — me dad talks of him.’ But he said it’s great because you’re doing your thing, and eventually all the kids go, ‘He’s cool, this dude!’” Johnson added, “It kind of takes you right back to the start, when you had to win over an audience. I’m excited.”…..Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl told Rolling Stone the band’s upcoming Record Store Day EP, Songs From The Laundry Room, was actually recorded in one session. He explained, “There was a kid that lived not too far from me that had a four-track studio in the laundry room in his parents’ house, his name was Barrett Jones. He was a couple years older than me. But he was the guy who bought the equipment and started figuring out how to record all of his friends’ bands. So the first time I ever recorded anything was with Barrett.” Grohl said the tracks on the EP date back to his days playing in punk bands in Virginia. The disc includes early demos of Foos songs “Alone + Easy Target” and “Big Me,” a cover of Kim Wilde‘s “Kids in America” and the previously unreleased “Empty Handed.” The EP will be available in independent record stores on April 18th, this year’s designated Record Store Day. There are 15 or 20 more tracks from those early sessions that are still unreleased, according to Grohl. Grohl recalled Jones recorded several bands he played in, including Scream and Nirvana, and helped him record the demos for what would become the first Foo Fighters album, released in 1995. Grohl is serving as Record Store Day Ambassador this year, saying, “Vinyl, to me, was a really precious art form, ’cause you would get these albums and they were all handmade. Going to a record store and flipping through bins of major-label albums from years ago or today is fun. But when you order something from an independent that’s really handmade . . . that, to me, was f**king cool.” Speaking of which, we are giving away some vinyl in honor of Record Store Day (thanks to Paulie Walnuts!) See the contest, which is available online only, on the home page…..Love me some Rick DeJesus! Adelitas Way recently released a new EP called Deserve This, which the band recorded with the help of a PledgeMusic campaign after parting ways with Virgin Records last year. In a new interview with Alternative Nation, the frontman revealed the label’s goals for the band changed too drastically. He explained, “When we started on Virgin Records, we were on cloud nine. We had a great staff and they loved rock n’ roll. On the third album, we didn’t belong on the label anymore. They were in the mindset that rock is dead and they wanted us to make a pop album.” DeJesus added the label did not release the band’s third album, Stuck, for two years because “they thought it was too heavy.” He added, “Every meeting we had with them was all about changing the music. It was a brutal process. They wanted it to be an Imagine Dragons record and were looking for billions of sales. They weren’t thinking about the integrity of the band or what we were.” Adelitas Way released three studio albums through Virgin, including its 2009 self-titled debut and 2011’s Home School Valedictorian. Asked about the status of rock music right now, DeJesus said, “We’re really being alienated from every possible facet. Rock radio doesn’t even play rock bands anymore. So, they’ve pretty much stripped away every outlet for us to reach the fans. Fans have to stumble upon us on YouTube or Spotify now.” He continued, “I’m embracing being underground. We’re just going to continue to make records. I don’t think rock and roll is dead and people should shut the f**k up about saying rock is dead every five seconds.” Adelitas Way is working on its next full-length album, scheduled for release later this year, and will hit the road this summer…..Well, this IS good news! Yesterday we reported the cancellation of the “Farewell Shows” Black Sabbath was to play in November in Tokyo as part of Ozzfest Japan. Well, today Pulse Of Radio says Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has dismissed rumors his health is the reason why the band canceled an appearance at this year’s edition of Ozzfest Japan in November. Iommi, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in early 2012, wrote, “I‘m not sure how the rumor of my being unwell started as I was away on holiday!” He added, “Once you’ve had something like lymphoma, the fear that it will return never leaves. All I can say is that right now I’m fine and have regular blood tests.” Although it was announced last month Sabbath would give its final Japanese performance at the event, the band dropped off the bill on Wednesday (April 8th). Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne will now perform solo instead, accompanied by yet-to-be-disclosed “friends.” No reason was given for Sabbath’s withdrawal from the event. SHAR-RONNNNN!!!!!!!!…..Celebrating birthdays: Today: Mike Mushok of Staind and another new band TBA is 45! Haley Joel “I see dead people” Osment is 2. Saturday: Nigel Pulsford, original Bush guitarist, is 52. Sunday, Art Alexakis of Everclear is 53, David Letterman is 68 and Homeland’s Claire Danes is 36.