There’s sort of an olympic event happening in my cubicle this week! With details on the soon to be announced 2012 hardDrive Live Tour with Mark Tremonti in the wings, “Team hardDriveRadio” is hard at work bringing the tour website, press release and national and local radio promotions together. And then there’s the regular chores that need doing each week to put a couple of shows on the air, planning a new flyaway contest, and other promo plans for the rest of the year. And I’ve been nominated for the second year in a row for Non-Traditional Rock Programmer of the Year by RadioContraband! Lou Brutus was also nominated. So this fall is gonna be super special on many fronts! (That’s if I survive the pace! LOL)….On to the rock news: Via his Twitter page, Disturbed frontman David Draiman has revealed he’s writing his autobiography and is three chapters in so far. Responding to a fan question about the book, Draiman wrote, “3 chapters in. Starting up again when I get back from vacay. Will come out in conjunction with the Device record.” Device is the name of Draiman’s new side project, which has an industrial sound and features ex-Filter guitarist Geno Lenardo. No word on when this will be completed or released yet. Meanwhile, the remaining Disturbed members remain in hiatus, but definitely plan to be back. (Man, wouldn’t it be great to have a two year sabbatical?)….Pulse of Radio reports Out now from Rob Zombie is Mondo Sex Head, a collection of remixes of various Zombie tracks by artists like Korn‘s Jonathan Davis, Chino Moreno of Deftones, Photek, the Bloody Beatroots, Drumcorpsand others on the electronic dance music scene. Each track was hand-selected by Zombie, who road-tested many of the songs by listening to them while driving around Los Angeles. Zombie has also been working on his first new album since 2010’s Hellbilly Deluxe 2. The new, yet-to-be-titled CD is set for a late 2012 release. His Twins Of Evil co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson begins on October 1st in Salt Lake City, Utah. Zombie’s sixth film as a writer and director, The Lords Of Salem, will premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the event’s “Midnight Madness” series of genre films. The movie, about a 300-year-old coven of witches seeking revenge on the modern-day town of Salem, marks Zombie’s first collaboration with the producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise and his first live-action film since 2009’s Halloween 2. There is no release date for the film yet….10 Years new album Minus the Machine was released yesterday, Check out the video for “Backlash” here……With the Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival tour approaching, Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin gave Loudwire an update on the condition of frontman Sully Erna, whose strained vocal cords forced the band to cancel most of its European tour earlier this summer. Asked how Erna’s voice was doing, Larkin replied, “He’s doing fine and he only needed two weeks until they said that his voice would be completely back to normal and that was three weeks ago. We did a couple fly-in shows last week, just two shows, and he sang great, and everyone was really excited and ready for this tour.” We should be getting a phoner from Sully before he heads out on the tour!….Chester Bennington of Linkin Park took some time off from rehearsals to talk to hardDrive. Be listening for Chester and Mike Shinoda as Linkin Park will be our Featured Artist of the Week on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus week of Aug 20…..Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows makes a guest appearance on Fozzy‘s new single “Sandpaper.” Listen for it on hardDrive weekend of Aug 25th….Green Day played a secret show on Monday night (Aug 6th) at the Echoplex club in Los Angeles, with tickets going on sale that morning to fans only and selling out in seconds. The punk trio took the stage just past 10:00 p.m. and tore through a two-hour, 24-song set that kicked off with classics “Welcome To Paradise” and “American Idiot” before introducing material from Uno!, the first of their three upcoming studio albums. Among the nine new songs aired were “Nuclear Family,” “Stay The Night,” “Carpe Diem,” “Kill The DJ” and current single “Oh, Love.” Hits like “Hitchin’ A Ride,” “Brain Stew,” “Longview” and “She” also found their way into the set, while drummer Tre Cool traded places with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong at one point for early cut “Dominated Love Slave” from the band’s 1992 second album, Kerplunk….Found this on Blabbermouth, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook has revealed in a new interview with Billboard.com the band already has “probably six to eight songs worked up” for its next album and that the group is “probably going to be working on new material all the way up until the New Year, and then we’ll start tracking in mid-January, maybe.” “The idea behind that is just to keep the creative muscle worked out,” Hook explained. “It’s just like going to the gym; if you stop for a year, you lose all your strength. It’s easy to get lazy and get sort of soft. We’re in the business of making music; touring is great, but we should always be prepared and always exercising that creative muscle — in my opinion, anyway.” Meanwhile, their Trespass America stop last night in Oswego, NY consisted of only the bands on the mainstage due to technical difficulties with the venue. Lou Brutus will have a hardDrive Concert Report on the tour soon on the weekend edition of hardDrive soon!….Happy 39th to Creed’s Scott Stapp, Happy 51st to a pair: The Edge of U2 and Rikki Rockett of Poison! And very Happy 60th to Robin Quivers. Welcome to the club, darling!