Woooooo! Friday the 13th! Love it!…Had a splendid yesterday with the guys from Hollywood Undead and 10 Years hitting the hardDriveRadio studios here in NYC! Lots of laughs and good times had by all. Hollywood Undead just kicked off their new tour (many sold out shows!) and are stoked to be added at Rock On The Range and Carolina Rebellion! I couldn’t believe the new members of 10 Years are all from bands associated with our show! Their drummer Kyle Mayer has ties to former Korn percussionist Kalen Chase. Bassist Ryan Collier played with Fair To Midland (love that band) and guitarist Chad Huff plays with Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster, who were on the first hardDrive Live Tour! Six degrees of separation, indeed! The band performed “Miscellanea” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” in the studio acoustically and we did a video interview. Look for all soon!…. Muse has posted a new song online, an album track off their forthcoming Drones cd called “Psycho.” Check it out here. Reminds me a little bit of Queens Of The Stone Age. Do you like? Let us know on the Interact Live section of the new hardDriveRadio APP! As the band has hinted in recent interviews, “Psycho” is a very guitar-and-riff-heavy tune, echoing some of the band’s earlier work as opposed to their more recent experiments with electronic music. Fans began tweeting about the song as soon as it surfaced, with reactions ranging from “Muse are back on form with their new song . . . it’s f**king fantastic!” to “This is horrible guys.” The official first single from the album, called “Dead Inside,” will arrive the week of March 23rd. Drones is Muse’s seventh album and will follow up 2012’s The 2nd Law, which featured the chart-topping “Madness” and the Number Two single “Panic Station.”….This is sad news. Static-X frontman Wayne Static died after mixing Xanax and other powerful prescription drugs with alcohol, according to Blabbermouth. The hard rock news website obtained an official copy of the coroner’s report, which was released on Thursday (March 12th). The 48-year-old Static, whose real name was Wayne Richard Wells, was found dead in his Landers, California home on Nov 1st, 2014. The report stated, “(Static’s) wife stated that just prior to going to bed, he crushed one-half of a 30 mg oxycodone pill and consumed it. The oxycodone had been prescribed to his wife. He also drank an unknown amount of alcohol. His wife awoke at around 1530 hours. She found the decedent dead in the bed and called 911 at 1547 hours. Paramedics arrived and confirmed death at 1600 hours, noting rigor mortis and lividity.” The report added that Static’s wife, Tera Wray, told them that Static “took oxycodone, Xanax (alprazolam) and alcohol to relieve panic attacks.” She claimed he took Xanax on a daily basis at the prescribed dosage, according to the report, and would “occasionally have his own prescription for oxycodone, but he would usually take hers.” Wray also told the coroner that she and Static “had a history of cocaine and ecstasy abuse, but they stopped using illicit drugs in 2009.” Static’s mother also told the coroner her son was a “self-admitted alcoholic” for whom drinking had been a problem for two years. Both his mother and Wray said that Static was “not suicidal.” Statements from both Wray and a publicist back in November dismissed rumors that his passing was the result of a drug overdose. Static founded Static-X in 1994 and achieved commercial success with the band’s 1999 debut, Wisconsin Death Trip, which included the rock radio hit “Push It.” The group issued five more studio albums before disbanding permanently in June 2013. Static has been pursuing a solo career at the time of his death….Celebrating life today: David Draiman of Disturbed and Device is 42 and so is Ed Sloan of Crossfade. …Have a great weekend!
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