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LOU’S NEWS FLASHES……. What Is Lou Ruining His Hearing With This Week? Slipknot All Hope is Gone, Diamond Cuts Extra Innings, Disturbed Indestructible, The Cute Lepers Can't Stand Modern Music, The Offspring Rise and Fall Rage and Grace, Time Again Darker Days, Five Finger Death Punch The Way of the Fist, Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll
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ya every night from 7p till 12 midnight! Coming Up on hardDrive with Lou Brutus... This weekend on hardDrive with Lou Brutus the guests include Metallica, Motley Crue, Shinedown, Rev Theory and Midnight to 12. You'll get a hardDrive Concert Report on Disturbed in Ft Wayne IN and out What's in Lou's CD Player, too. All this weekend on a special edition of The World Famous hardDrive with Lou Brutus.
This Week on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus It's a Monday thru Friday night version of hardDrive!!! Brutus hosts and there are already stations from coast to coast in on the madness. Hit the new web site at harddrivexl.com for more! You can phone Lou now at 877 MUSIC 11. Vote on the hottest new song of the week with Smash or Crashl. Features like the The Rant O' the Day, Ask Lou, XL Dirt, The XL Shoutbox, Poetry Corner and a lot more! Coming up...Featured Artist of the Week: Motley Crue!!! Plus the artist guest list for the week includes Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Sixx AM, Trapt and Rage Against the Machine.
Forget Me Knot Brutus hit Des Moines, Iowa and met up with Corey Taylor and The Clown of Slipknot to record an FMQB album premiere special for the forthcoming opus All Hope is Gone. The interview was done in the studios of Lazer 103.3 with many thanks to Ryan Patrick and Andy Hall of the station. You can hear Inside Slipknot: All Hope is Gone on radio stations around the country the weekend of August 23 and 24th. The album will hit stores on August 26th. Brutus was trusted with the only copy of the album outside of the band and will post some thoughts on it in the coming days.
Brutus Bears Down for Cubs While in Des Moines recording with Slipknot, LB took up an invitation from the Iowa Cubs and threw out the first pitch at their game against the Albuquerque Isotopes. While he did not hit the mascot, he missed the catcher by a good ten feet and beaned a cameraman from the club. Injures were minor and closed up with only a few hundred stitches. The team, no doubt spurred on my Lou's pitching, promptly gave up nine runs in the first few innings and went on to defeat. Thanks to Kenny Hauser for the setup!
Tallica! Tallica! An amazing 30 hours for Brutus in Tennessee as he interviewed all four members of Metallica over the course of nearly three hours! Besides seeing their set at Bonnaroo he was also one of the select few invited by the band to see them play in Grimey's Basement. The total audience was less then 100. He's posted a few pics from the Grimey's gig on his Facebook and MySpace pages.
Of Wolf and Hippie Brutus will be jetting off to Manchester TN to hook up with Metallica at the stinking hippie fest known as Bonaroo! He'll be doing exclusive interviews with each of the band members. We'll keep you posted on more details as soon as we get 'em!
Getting Distrubed Lou Brutus is the host of the hour long radio special celebrating the new album from Disturbed entitled "Indestructible." All four members of the band give their thoughts on this incredible record in this landmark broadcast. You can hear this on radio stations around North America before the record release date. Check your local station for day and time of the broadcast. The impressive list of stations that will carry it include: WHJY/Providence,bWCYY/Portland, WLZX/Springfield, WHEB/Portsmouth, WGIR/Manchester, WEDG/Buffalo, WRAT/Monmouth, WIYY/Baltimore, WQXA/Harrisburg, WXQR/Greenville, WOBX/Nags Head, WRCQ/Fayetteville, WCHZ/Augusta, WTZR/Johnson City, KATT/Oklahoma City, KNCN/Corpus Christi, WRXW/Jackson, KEYJ/Abilene, KBZS/Wichita Falls, WCPR/Biloxi, KWDQ/Woodward OK, WFTK/Cincinnati, WXDX/Pittsburgh, WTFX/Louisville, WZRX/Lima, WAMX/Huntington, WZJO/Charleston, WIIL/Chicago, KXXR/Minneapolis, WJJO/Madison, WZOR/Appleton, WWWX/Green Bay, KBOB/Quad Cities, WRQT/La Crosse, KQYK/Mankato, WHMH/St Cloud, WQLZ/Springfield, WILD/Roseau MN, KPNT/St Louis, KDJE/Little Rock, KZRQ/Springfield, KFMW/Waterloo, KDDX/Rapid City, KCGQ/Cape Giradeau, KIBZ/Lincoln, KJML/Joplin, KRWK/Fargo, KRWN/Farmington NM, KILO/Colorado Springs, KRZQ/Reno, KDOT/Reno, KBAZ/Missoula, KZZE/Medford , KATS/Yakima, KXTE/Las Vegas, KJEE/Santa Barbara, KCXX/Riverside, WHDR/Miami, WTKX/Pensacola, WHHZ/Gainesville, WRUF/Gainesville, WRIF/Detroit, WRZX/IndianapolisWBYR/Ft. Wayne, WRBR/South Bend, WKHY/Lafayette IN, WGBF/Evansville, WJXQ/Lansing, WWVR/Terre Haute IN.
Scars on Broadway Brutus just finished an in depth interview with the normally press shy Daron Malakian. They were talking about Daron's newest project Scars on Broadway which also features fellow SOAD member John Dolmayan. You can hear it all soon on hardDrive and hardDrive XL. Many thanks to Daron, not only for the interview, but for following up with an unexpected call to say that he hates doing interviews...except when they're with Brutus!
Rock on the Range It's the Summer concert season's first major blowout and (of course) Brutus will be backstage for it all. Year Two of Rock on the Range will find LB doing backstage interviews with STP, Distrubed, Staind, Killswitch Engage, Serj Tankian, Shinedown, Finger Eleven, Filter, 10 Years, Red, Theory of A Deadman, Ashes Divide, Airbourne, Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down, Seether, Papa Roach, Flyleaf, Alter Bridge, Sevendust, Five Finger Death Punch, Black Tide, Drowning Pool, Bobaflex, Rev Theory and Saving Abel. With him doing all these interviews the chances that he'll actually see anyone play are pretty slim. Boo fucking hoo for him. Hear it all in upcoming special editions of hardDrive and XL.
Getting Disturbed in Fort Wayne This week Brutus jets off to the bustling metropolis known as...Fort Wayne! He's hooking up with Disturbed to get the inside story on their forthcoming new album Indestructible. After that, he travels with the band to Columbus OH and the Rock on the Range shows! Listen for it on hardDrive & XL.
All Systems Go! P-H-E-N, O-M-E-N, A-U-T-S! Phenomenauts! Galactic pioneers The Phenomenauts roll in to XM to tape a special performance this Monday! A short list of invited cadets will be attendance for this show that will be heard in June on Fungus 53! Go for launch!
Brutus' Baseball Blog Hey Kids! Lou has begun contributing to XM's baseball blog. He'll be adding his thoughts and observations throughout the season from his perspective as an on field photographer. Read the first installment here.
Ivan the Not Terrible At All Be listening to hardDrive and hardDrive XL for Lou's exclusive, in depth interview with his bud Ivan of Five Finger Death Punch. You'll get the definitive word on Ivan's vocal chord rehab, the forthcoming new music from the band, his thoughts on this Summer's Rockstar Mayhem Tour, what really happened with Motograter and a whole lot more. Ivan is one of LB's fave peeps in the rock world so be prepared for awesome conversation.
"I'm Going to The Show!" This week marks Lou's return to Major League Baseball as an accredited on field photographer! He's planning on shooting upcoming games between the Orioles versus the Mariners and the Nationals against the Marlins. He'll then continue to be down in the photo pits at games around the country throughout the season. Let's Go Mets!
Phenomenauts Are Go! They are one of LB's favorite bands. They are not of this planet. They are ntergalactic go getters, mind melting musical meteoroids, cosmically crazed cacophony cadets, rip roarin' retro-rockabilly rocketeers of rockin' rock. None other then...The Phenomenauts! Their new album, For All Mankind, enters Earth's atmosphere this Tuesday April 8th. The band was not only kind enough to give Lou a thank you on the record but they also used and credited him for one of the inner sleeve photographs. It's of the band huddled over the glowing screens of XM's Satellite Command Center in Washington, DC! Be sure to pick up the disc which features soon to be classics as Man Alone and Make A Circuit with Me (currently the Number One most requested song on Fungus 53). Also, stay tuned for your chance to attend a private concert broadcast by The Phenomenauts at XM in May!
Time Again for Time Again It was an incredible set from Time Again earlier this week at the XM Performance Theatre in DC. Brutus hosted as the band tore thru a dozen songs including many from their latest disc Darker Days. It will debut on Fungus 53 on April 28th at 8pm Eastern. Keep an eye out for details.
USA Today: I Am Legend Be sure to pick up the Friday March 28th edition of USA Today to check out an article on Lou’s latest creation, The Play Ball channel on XM! Play Ball is a two day channel that airs as a celebration of the Opening Day of Major League Baseball. Tons of great songs, classic calls and other baseball related audio. Much of it is rare and all of it is great. There’s a full article complete with a very disturbing picture of LB with a baseball shoved in his mouth on page 3 of the Sports section. Read the text online here or download a copy for the full effect here. Lou, whom USA Today refers to as a "legendary rock deejay," (ummm, ok) is getting tons of other press for the channel including The Pittsburg Post Gazette, The Chicago Sun Times, The Topeka Capital Journal, The Bergen Record, Florida Today, FMQB, Detroit News, NY Daily News and Orbitcast. Also, check out this massive article in the Miami Herald. Brutus will also be covering the Major League Baseball season as a fully accredited on field photographer! Watch for him at a baseball park near you.
3 Doors Down in NYC It was like a fucking high school reunion at Lou met up with the guys from 3 Doors Down for an in depth conversation recently in New York City. Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrell, Chris Henderson and Greg Upchurch were all there talking about the new album 3 Doors Down, the current situation on the Gulf Coast, UFOs and a bunch of other stuff. You'll hear it all on hardDrive, hardDrive XL and the upcoming Inside 3 Doors Down radio special. We'll alert you to times and days. Thanks again to the guys.
Rush: Inside Snakes and Arrows Live Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush will once again be heard chatting with Lou Brutus from coast to coast on the new radio special Inside Snakes and Arrows Live. The special, produced by FMQB, will have the band taking you thru the songs on the group's new live opus. Anyone who has heard LB with Rush before knows how well he can bring out their humor and good nature. The special will air on radio stations around the country from April 11th to April 14th. We'll post a full list as soon as we get it.
Yakkity Yakkity Yakkity Yak Tons of interviews lately for Brutus including 3 Doors Down, Rev Theory, Hurt and Scary Kids Scaring Kids which can soon be heard on hardDrive and hardDrive XL. He also recently spoke to his old friend Monte A. Melnick, the longtime tour manager for the Ramones which you can hear on XM's Fungus 53.
Theory of A Deadman: Inside Scars and Souvenirs This is the weekend! March 29th and 30th find Tyler, Dave and Dean from Theory of A Deadman broadcasting from New York City with Lou Brutus. Actually, they recorded it a few weeks back. The show, which is put together by FMQB is entitled Inside Theory of A Deadman's Scars and Souvenirs is airing across the country. Check your station for day and time!
Rock Over London, Rock On Chicago! It was ten years ago now that the legendary Wesley Willis recorded what will surely go down as his most obscure song..."Lou Brutus." Its available on the incredibly hard to find album "Rock and Roll Jackflash." Without a doubt, the album kicks a llama's ass. Sadly, Wesley passed away a few years ago but not before Lou got to thank him for the honor of writing and recording the song about him. As the album and song are almost impossible to find, Lou has put an excerpt of the song on his MySpace page to celebrate the anniversary. Check it out here. Many thanks to Wesley. We miss you and the honky joy rides.
Artist Confidential Redux In case you missed them the first time around XM Satellite Radio is re-airing many the Artist Confidential shows hosted by Lou Brutus in the coming days. On Monday March 10th its a show with Perry Farrell's Satellite Party and another show featuring Smashing Pumpkins. On Monday March 24th Lou hosts separate performances with Megadeth and KoRn. All of these will air for 24 straight hours on XM channel 02, XMX.
Turn Me On Mr. Deadman Lou was just in New York City to hook up with Tyler Connolly, Dean Back and Dave Brenner from Theory of A Deadman. Not only will you hear interview audio from their session, it will also be used around the world for the official FMQB album premiere special for their latest release Scars & Souvenirs. The special will air on radio stations around North America the weekend of March 29th and 30th. We'll post a list of stations soon. Album out April 1st!
You're Not Invited Concert Series News The end of February saw two of Lou's fave Fungus 53 bands stop in for live performances at XM in DC. The Horrorpops were in Studio One while Steve E Nix and the Cute Lepers tore it up in Studio Two. Both of these shows will be featured in upcoming editions of The You're Not Invited Concert Series in early April. Dates and times soon! Other upcoming bands in the series include Time Again and The Phenomenauts.
The Atreyu-Easton Five Star Challenge This week hardDrive XL listeners get a crack at The Atreyu-Easton Five Star Challenge. You can snag an autographed Atreyu CD along with an Easton hockey stick signed by NHL stars like Nick Lindstrom and Chris Drury. Tune to LB on The XL to find out how!
Tantric's Hugo A Go Go Hugo Ferriera of Tantric spent a good chunk of an afternoon last week with Lou talking up the latest news on the band. Find out about the new Tantric album, the band changes and a lot more coming up on hardDrive and XL.
High Times with Airbourne Minutes after finishing his recent interview with Airbourne, Lou Brutus was heard to say, "That was so funny I almost pissed in my fucking pants." Lou had interviewed Joel and Ryan O'Keefe of the band for nearly and hour. Hilarity ensued. They talked about drinking, booze, alcohol, girls, drinking, the time the band saw a UFO in Australia and, oh yeah, drinking. You can hear it all coming up on hardDrive and hardDrive XL.
Hello, My Name is Mudvayne It was a lengthy, in depth interview with Matt McDonough, drummer for Mudvayne, that LB conducted this week. They spoke about the forthcoming new album, how Matt's been keeping his chops up while being off the road, the state of the music biz and a whole lot more. You'll hear it all soon on hardDrive and on hardDrive XL where Matt will soon be The Featured Artist of the Week.
Get Faced Because you don't see his ugly mug online enough, Brutus has set up his new Facebook profile. If you're on Facebook and you're his friend then send him a request to be his Friend. (Please Note: Being a MySpace or Facebook "Friend" of Lou's does not mean you are actually his "friend." Chances are you would not want to be anyway as he is incredibly selfish and nasty.)
Get Well Hung with Wes Borland hardDrive XL listeners to Lou Brutus on 94.1 JJO in Madison Wisconsin have a chance to get "well hung" this week by becoming a piece of art! All this week, Lou is giving you a chance to have your portrait painted by none other than Wes Borland! You've heard Brutus rave about Wes' painting on the air, now its your chance to become part of his portfolio. Check out hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus all this week for details on Solid Rock 94.1 JJO!
Theory of An Interview It was a great in depth interview that LB conducted this week with Tyler Connolly of Theory of A Deadman. They talked about the the recording of the new album Scars & Souvenirs with producer Howard Benson, the lyrical stories behind the songs and what happened with (what little) downtime they had. Listen for it coming up on hardDrive and hardDrive XL.
The Lou Brutus History of Roadrunner Records A few years back someone at Roadrunner Records thought it would be a good idea to have Lou Brutus write the label's "official" history. He polished off a couple bottles of absinthe and went to work. We found the file on a hard drive Lou was attempting to smash with a hammer and, while never used by the label, we present it here for your perusal...
Since 1980, ROADRUNNER RECORDS, Inc. has been synonymous with the fiercest and most awe inspiring rock music in the history of civilization. For over a quarter of a century, the very mention of its name has caused women to wail like banshees and grown men to fall to their knees weeping, overcome by their impotence in the face of its all encompassing power. It will eventually melt the polar ice caps and engulf all life on this planet in an unstoppable tide of rock. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
This worldwide juggernaut of musical madness and fierce business smarts was formed by current chairman Cees Wessels in Amsterdam, after he was visited by the patron saint of the city’s artisans Vincent Van Gogh. The late painter appeared in a dream to the young man pointing to his one good ear proclaiming, “I, who have given up my other ear for art, proclaim that you shall create art for the ears of others.” Having been given this mandate, Wessels began his near holy mission by licensing U.S. hard rock for the Euro market including Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and others. Yes, ROADRUNNER brought the metal but it also brought other bastard genres left for dead by the evil corporate types by repping seminal U.S. rock, punk, and alternative labels like SST, Taang!, Triple X, Twin Tone and Relativity--home to artists as wide ranging as Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements and more. This maniacal desire for diversity lives on at ROADRUNNER to this day with a mind boggling array of successful artists in all rock subgenres as well as enough surprising catalog items to dizzy the brain of even the most ardent music geek.
It was in November 1986 (after months of planning that dwarfed even Eisenhower’s plans for D-Day) that ROADRUNNER first arrived in New York. Appearing suddenly out of the early morning Hudson River fog, landing craft filled with rock soldiers began discharging their heroic cargo on America’s shores. Fighting was vicious thru lower Manhattan as the debauched, jack booted troops of the music industry tried in vain to keep the righteous ROADRUNNER freedom fighters from their new digs. These offices, actually a series of underground, titanium encased bunkers, were set up in NY for two reasons. First, to sign, record and produce the greatest rock music that America could provide. Second, to directly handle the marketing of the artists here in the U.S. These offices became the company’s most significant A&R source causing other labels to gnash their teeth in jealousy. The international headquarters, perhaps more important to mankind than the United Nations, are in Holland while the company also keeps outposts to serve the teeming, rock starved masses in England, France, Germany, Japan and Australia.
Much of ROADRUNNER’S success is built upon its unmatched foresight in joining forces with artists who not only become staples of the company but of the very genres and cultures they have come to define. King Diamond, whose operatic vocals, lyrical genius and ghostly white faced paint ushered in a movement that lives on today in artists as diverse as Marilyn Manson and Avenged Sevenfold. Rhythm crazed metal warriors, Sepultura whose integration of their homeland Brazilian sounds into the genre have inspired mosh madness from St. Petersburg, Florida to St. Petersburg, Russia. It was in the late 90’s that many of ROADRUNNER’S early plans for world domination came to glorious fruition in the form of Brooklyn based Type O Negative whose “Christian Woman” single commando styled its way stealthily onto radio airwaves and became the label’s first Gold-certified act. Type O was followed in quick Gold-blessed succession by “spooky core” heroes Coal Chamber and the genre defining, electro-thrash wickedness of Fear Factory. Then, all hell broke loose when the company hooked up with a nine man aggregate of lost souls from the previously bypassed artery of the American Heartland…Des Moines, Iowa. Satan himself wet his panties in horror at the site of the malevolent, masked marauders known as Slipknot. Their army of fans, a charming group of human flotsam known as “maggots,” overran the known world, pillaging record stores at will and leading to ROADRUNNER’S first Platinum certification.
In 1999, the company made a strategic move that rivaled the appointment of George S. Patton to lead the U.S. 3rd Army in World War 2 when it chose Jonas Nachsin as President. This move resonates to this very day as his previous four years as G.M., coupled with his background in Sales & Marketing, continues to create a synergy among all of ROADRUNNER’S departments that brings any entity foolish enough to tangle with it to their knees.
The year of 2001 saw the odyssey of ROADRUNNER continue forward at light speed beginning with the announcement of its partnership with Island Def Jam for distribution in many territories through Universal Music and Video Distribution (UMVD). Being allied with Island Def Jam and working together as sworn blood brothers of rock allowed the major to complement the inner workings of the label and lend tactical support where necessary. At the same time, ROADRUNNER unleashed a musical pincer movement upon the world that solidified its position as an unstoppable force in the galaxy. It released the sophomore album by Slipknot entitled Iowa which shipped Platinum, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 and shamed the feeble minded critics of the band as if they were dogs who had messed upon the carpet. Only a month later, the label let loose the second half of the pincer in the form of Nickelback’s Silver Side Up. The album blitzed its way to a #2 debut on the Billboard Top 200, went on to quintuple Platinum status and ushered in a new era for the entire label. ROADRUNNER was now no longer just the pre-eminent metal label on Earth; it was also a major player across the entire rock spectrum. Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” went on to become the most played song of 2002 across all formats of commercial radio and rallied rock fans around the world to the band’s clarion call helping set up the triple Platinum success of their next two releases, The Long Road and All the Right Reasons. It also opened a Pandora’s Box of musical phantasmagoria for the label foreshadowing the radio success of both Stone Sour and Theory of A Deadman.
Meanwhile back in the label’s titanium encased bunkers, the powers that be refused to rest on their laurels. Preternaturally sensing the coming need for an online presence previously unseen on this planet, they hired a renegade group of technological outlaws to spearhead ROADRUNNER’S electronic assets. The fruits of their insidiously industrious labors wore born in the form of www.roadrunnerrecords.com. From its seemingly humble beginnings, it has worked itself into an incredibly diverse online community with a tenfold growth since 2001. Contributor’s like Blabbermouth.net and Infernal Combustion have become the envy of the online music scene.
The label currently features the following RIAA U.S. certification: Nickelback Silver Side Up (5x Platinum), Nickelback The Long Road (Triple Platinum), Nickelback All the Right Reasons (Triple Platinum), Slipknot Disasterpieces Home Video (Triple Platinum), Slipknot Slipknot (Double Platinum), Slipknot Welcome to Our Neighborhood Home Video (Platinum), Type O Negative Blood Kisses (Platinum), Type O Negative October Rust (Gold), Nickelback The State (Gold), Fear Factory Obsolete (Gold), Coal Chamber Coal Chamber (Gold) and Sepultura Chaos A.D. (Gold).
In the once untouchable world of Grammy Awards, ROADRUNNER RECORDS artists now swarm the ceremonies like Orcs attacking Minas Tirith in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Grammy highlights for the label include five nominations in 2004 (a staggering 3 out of 5 noms in the Metal Performance category were ROADRUNNER titles) and picking up its first ever Grammy Award in 2006 when Slipknot brought home the Metal Performance award for their bold, bleak and beguiling behemoth Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses.
In 2005, ROADRUNNER RECORDS celebrated its Silver Anniversary with a party that would have made Caligula himself blush with envy. The show, entitled Roadrunner United, was held in New York City and featured an all star array of label artists from throughout its storied history. A Who’s Who of the music and media worlds needed to screw their eyeballs back into their sockets after seeing the musical bacchanal that was presented. Emergency rooms throughout NY were filled with rock fans whose bodies were overcome by overdoses of metal that had entered their bloodstreams through their eardrums during the show.
Along its path to glory, ROADRUNNER has made its name a brand unto itself to which consumers, artists and marketing partners alike are drawn like frat boys to a kegger. All kidding aside, this success across all artistic and consumer groups is because the label was formed and is continued to be guided by people who in their heart of hearts are music fans. This fact is why the inner fire is still lit to fight with unbridled determination to keep ROADRUNNER true to its core base and to expand its knowledge of the broader rock world thru vision and experience. It is this love and respect of all music that has put ROADRUNNER where it is and will lead it to even greater victories in the future.
Empires have risen and fallen, trends have come and gone…but ROADRUNNER RECORDS remains. It is both the Alpha and the Omega. It will never die.
Rock and Roll's Last Hope: Watershed One of America's greatest straight ahead rock and roll bands is Watershed. They are old friends of Brutus' and they are back on the road for a limited time including some rare East Coast appearances. If you wanna see rock the way its supposed to be than get your ass out to a show, start slamming boilermakers and rock the fuck out to Watershed. You can see all the dates and find out about the band at watershedcentral.com or on their MySpace.
The 2007 Lou Brutus Christmas Activity Book Instead of his usual Christmas compilation CD, LB has put together his first ever Christmas Activity Book! Written by Lou and illustrated by Alan MacBain this twisted Christmas card features The Britney Spears Panty Maze, The Paris Hilton F-Word Search, The Amy Winehouse Jailhouse Letter Mad Lib, The Rip Snortin' Lyndsay Lohan Picture Puzzle and the Where in the World is Chinese Democracy Coloring Page. If you haven't got yours in the mail don't worry! You can download your very own copy by clicking HERE!
Artist Confidential with Duran Duran Check out XM channel 02 XMX all day on New Year's Eve Day to hear Lou Brutus host XM's Artist Confidential Series with Duran Duran. The band blasts thru half a dozen tunes both new and classic while LB leads queries them on their long, illustrious career.
Brutus' Top Ten hardDrive Tunes for 2007 Based solely on his own selfish tastes, here are Lou's Top Ten harddrive Tunes for 2007...
01. Tarantula The Smashing Pumpkins
02.
You Wouldn't Know
03. The Bleeding Five Finger Death Punch
04. Soldiers
05. Driven Sevendust
06.
Holy Diver Killswitch Engage 07. I Get It Chevelle 08. March of War Nonpoint 09. Lie Black Light Burns 10. Famous Puddle of Mudd
Fungus 53 Top Ten Songs for 2007 Based on airplay and requests, here are the Top Ten Songs for 2007 on XM's Fungus 53...
01.
Into Action Tim Armstrong
02.
Flannigan's Ball Dropkick
Murphys
03.
Terminal Boredom Steve E Nix and the Cute Lepers
04.
Requiem for Dissent Bad
Religion
05.
Hee Haw Hell Dash Rip Rock
06.
Far Behind Social Distortion
07.
Nekrohigh Nekromantix
08.
Melatonin Smoke or Fire
09.
Your Ass is A Stereotype Les Hatepinks 10. Stop Drop and Roll Foxboro Hot Tubs
Brutus Reports on Led Zep in London!!! In case you missed his blog he wrote shortly after the show, here's Lou's late night take on what he witnessed at the Led Zeppelin reunion. His thoughts on the gig have also been picked up at FMQB.com.
It's late here in London. Almost 1:30am and I'm on a plane back to the States in just a few hours. Here is a quick overview of the Led Zeppelin reunion show. More later!
Band personnel-instrument (onstage look)
Robert Plant-vocals (jeans, black shirt, curly mane of
hair and stubby beard)
Jimmy Page-guitars (began show in long duster length
jacket, vest, white shirt, sun glasses, long white hair)
John Paul Jones-bass guitar & keyboards (dark shirt and
pants, short hair, very 'normal' looking)
Jason Bonham-drums (black t shirt and dark pants)
Set list:
Good Times Bad Times (9pm local time)
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life
Trampled Underfoot
Nobody's Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Since I've Been Loving You
Dazed and Confused
Stairway to Heaven
Song Remains the Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir (Main set ends 10:51 local time)
(Encore 1)
Whole Lotta Love
(Encore 2)
Rock and Roll (Show over at 11:03 local time)
Overall:
An incredible show. The first three numbers suffered (very) slightly
from some microphone feedback, a less then stellar house PA mix and what
appeared to be the band taking a bit of time to find their footing.
From the 4th song on it was full steam ahead and they continued to pick
up momentum until the end. Once they found their groove it was obvious
that they were enjoying themselves immensely. The crowd was riveted
from the moment the lights went out. As the show opened the air seemed
to go out of the arena and it almost seemed like the 20,000 attending
were in a slight state of shock at the site of the band finally
playing. A simply breathtaking night. Very well played with exciting
musical and emotional moments.
LB & LZ: Lou Brutus Covers Led Zeppelin in London! Brutus is winging his way to London for the biggest musical event of the year...the return of Led Zeppelin!!! You can hear his reports from the event across the XM dial. More details and a complete recap of the show here soon!!! We just hope he refuses to take the rumored $15,000 that English scalpers are offering for tickets!
P Roach, Uncut Roach Before their touring ended for the year Brutus caught up with Papa Roach's lead singer Jacoby Shaddix. He got the dope on the band's upcoming new year, information on the forthcoming new music and a whole lot more. You can hear it all coming up on hardDrive and hardDrive XL!!!
Trace Trace, Duran Duran Late November found Brutus up in New York City to host two separate tapings for XM's Artist Confidential Series. The first was country superstar Trace Adkins. The second with legendary Brit band Duran Duran. You can hear them both on XM channel 02 XMX. Trace Adkins on Monday December 17th and Duran Duran Monday December 31st. Each special will air all day.
XM LED The Zeppelin Channel XM has launched The Mothership of All Channels. It's a dedicated Led Zeppelin channel called XM LED and Lou Brutus is at the helm! It's nothing but Led Zep, solo music from the band members, cover versions of LZ songs and live stuff out of the archives. Lots of other surprises as well at XM channel 59. You can read more from XM, Business Week, FMQB, Metal Underground, AOL News.
Nikki and Benji Another busy week for Lou. He hosted Nikki Sixx during a taping of XM's guest DJ series Offstage in Washington. He also spent a good chunk of time on the hardDrive Hotline with Benji from Skindred. Watch this space for schedules on when you can hear them both in November.
LB on HBO?!?!? No one knows why. No one knows when. No one knows how. Lou Brutus will be featured all next month on HBO!!! However, he will not be Lou Brutus but someone else. Who could he be if he is not he? WTF???
Pretty As A Picture Heads up! New photos have been added to the 00's section of the Rogues Gallery here on the site. Stare in wonder at Lou's slack jawed gaze with Smashing Pumpkins, Saliva, Harry Connick Jr. and Eddie Money. Plus, Alice Cooper is back with another assassination attempt photo with Brutus.
KoRn and Brutus from NYC on XM's Artist Confidential Be sure to check LB out all day Monday on XM as he hosts KoRn in performance and conversation as part of the XM Aritst Confidential Series. It was recorded live at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The one hour interview and concert airs continually, all day Monday October 15th on XM channel 02 XMX! Be sure to listen for other upcoming Artist Confidentials that Lou will be hosting including Perry Farrell's Satellite Party (10/25), Blue Man Group (11/5) and Megadeth (11/12).
I Shoot Into the Light Wanna check out some of Lou's baseball photography? XM is using shots LB took this summer while working as an accredited Major League Baseball photographer on the front page of xmradio.com. To date, every team they have used pictures of (Mets and Phillies) have been eliminated from contention. Is it The Curse of the Brutbino?
Artist Confidential with Smashing Pumpkins Lou is your host as XM kicks off the fall season of the Artist Confiential Series with Smashing Pumpkins. It's a hybrid concert performance and interview that may be the greatest show you ever hear from one of the world's great bands. Catch it on XMX which is XM Channel 02 this Monday September 17th looping for 24 straight hours!
Nice, Nice, Very Nice It was a busy week for El Brute featuring interviews with Chevelle, Fair to Midland, Blood Simple and Trapt. Besides the rock stuff Lou has also been continuing to work in his spare time as a photographer on the field at Major League Baseball games! He's recently shot the Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Twins, Yankees, Red Sox and Giants. Look for him in the on field pits thru the playoffs and World Series, too!
Popper Pops Off, Diamond Cuts and Brutus is "Going to the Show" A friend of Lou's since childhood, Steve Popper is the premiere baseball writer in the United States and covers the New York Mets. As Brutus is a baseball fanatic and devout follower of the Mets he often contacts Steve to beg for tickets, autographs and slightly used protection cups. Steve has kindly mentioned Brutus in his latest blogs which you can read at http://njmg.typepad.com/metsblog/. However, he has not gotten Lou any cups. BTW, many of you have commented on LB's incredible baseball photography. It's so good that you'll soon be seeing some of it on the XM Satellite Radio web site. He will also be, as they say in Bull Durham, "going to the show" and covering select Major League Baseball games this season as an accredited photographer! Let's see...he gets paid to go to concerts and interview rock stars AND go to baseball games to be on the field and take pictures. Lucky bastard! One final baseball related note...Lou will be contributing two cuts to the latest edition of "Diamond Cuts" albums. These are a series of discs that collect the greatest baseball related songs and spoken word pieces. LB's epic poem of the Chicago Cubs postseason collapse "Bartman at the Ball" and his six second long punk rock ode "Cal Ripken Played the Longest Streak in Baseball History" will both be included. The album should be released in time for the World Series.
So This One Time...At Bandcamp This weekend, Brutus returns to Madison WI for another incredible Bandcamp show sponsored by his longtime hardDrive and hardDrive XL affiliate 94.1 WJJO. He'll be speaking to all of the bands on the bill including Stone Sour, Sevendust, Nonpoint, Finger 11, Kittie, Black Light Burns, Skillet, Dope, Burden Brothers, Godhead and Dirty Little Rabbits. You can hear it all on upcoming editions of hardDrive and hardDrive XL.
KoRn Devolves with LB in NYC It was one for the ages as Lou interviewed KoRn in the breathtakingly beautiful Jazz at Lincoln Center Allen Room studio overlooking Central Park in NYC. The taping took place in front of a small group of KoRn fans and will be broadcast on XM as part of the Artist Confidential Series. The show lasted over an hour as Brutus quizzed the band over every facet of their career in between five KoRn tunes that were played live and electric. We'll post the air date as soon as we have it!
Lou in Saint Lou for Family Values It was an amazing day of coverage for Brutus as he was on hand backstage in St. Louis for the volume and laser soaked opening of the Family Values Tour 2007. He spoke with virtually the entire bill including Jonathan and Munky of KoRn, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Lacey of Flyleaf, Chad Gray and Vinnie Paul of Hell Yeah, Alex of Atreyu and Ivan of Five Finger Death Punch along with members of Droid, Invitro, Neurosonic, Trivium and Twin Method. Among the many pieces of news that Lou picked up is that KoRn will do a second tour leg after Family Values and that they will continue to feature Joey Jordison on drums, the recording of the new Mudvayne album is finished but the mastering is not and while the band still expects to get it out this year it may be later than the October release that had been anticipated by many. After the set Brutus had an exclusive conversation with Joey Jordison who told him that the members of Slipknot met up in Des Moines last week to discuss future plans. Apparently, a lot of new music is already written and once they finish with their side projects thru the end of this year they expect to begin recording the new album early in the new year. He also said the loose plan is to hit some of the European festivals next summer before touring America but that it's not set in stone yet. He believes that this will be a "metal" record much in the vein of Iowa and that the band will not be taking nearly as much time to record the new record as they did with Subliminal Verses. You can hear all of this and MUCH more in an upcoming Backstage at Family Values Tour 2007 special edition of hardDrive with Lou Brutus. There is also word afoot that LB will be hooking up with KoRn again soon to record an interview & performance in the XM Artist Confidential Series. Details soon!
Brutus Family Values LB is off to Saint Louis for the opening of the Family Values Tour this weekend! He'll interview KoRn, Evanesence, Flyleaf, Hell Yeah, Atreyu, Five Finger Death Punch, Neurosonic and all the other bands on the tour. You can hear it all in an upcoming special edition of hardDrive with Lou Brutus.
Artist Confidential: Smashing Pumpkins It was an unbelievable afternoon for about thirty lucky Smashing Pumpkins fans as they watched Lou host the band in XM's seminal Artist Confidential series. LB quizzed the group at length about the new Zeitgeist album along with a multitude of other subjects. This was only the second radio interview done in America by the band and they've both been by Brutus!!! The band performed six songs acoustically during the show including a killer version of "United States" and you can hear it all on XM with the TTBD.
Smashing Pumpkins FMQB Album Premiere Special Brutus recently flew to Asheville NC to hook up with Smashing Pumpkins to record the official radio special celebrating their new album. This was the only interview done by the band for American radio to date. Now's your chance to hear it! FMQB Presents Inside the Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist can be heard from coast to coast on the following radio stations. Check stations for times and days of the broadcast...
KACV/Amarillo, TX KATS/Yakima KATT/Oklahoma CIty KBAZ/Missoula KCCQ/Ames/Des Moines KCLB/Palm Springs, Ca. KDGE/Dallas KDJE/Little Rock KEDJ/Phoenix KEYJ/Abilene, TX KFMA/Tucson, AZ KFMW/Waterloo-Cedar Rapids KFNK/Seattle KHBZ/Oklahoma City KILO/Colorado Springs KISS/San Antonio KITS/San Francisco KJEE/Santa Barbara- Ventura Oxnard KKDO/Saginaw, MI. KNCN/Corpus Christi, TX KNDD/Seattle KNRK/Portland, OR KRNA/Cedar Rapids KRZQ/Reno KUCD/Honolulu KWOD/Sacramento KZZE/Medford WAMX/Huntington, WV/Ashland, KY WAVF/Charleston, SC WBCN/Boston WBSX/Wilkes Barre WCHZ/Augusta, GA WCLG/Morgantown, Fairmont, Clarksburg, WV WCNR/Charlottesville, VA WCPR/Gulfport-Biloxi, MS WEDG/Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY WEQX/Albany, NY WHDR/Miami-Fort Lauderdale WIIL/Chicago WIYY/Baltimore WJJO/Madison WKHY/Lafayette, IN WKTG/Madisonville, Kentucky WKZQ/Myrtle Beach, SC WLFR/Atlantic City/Pomona, NJ WLRM/Memphis, TN WLRS/Louisville WMMR/Philadelphia WNNX/Atlanta WPLA/Jacksonville WPTQ/Bowling Green,KY WQXA/Harrisburg WRCQ/Fayetteville NC WRIF/Detroit WRRV/Poughkeepsie/Middletown NY WRTT/Huntsville, Al WRWK/Toledo WRZX/Indianapolis WTPT/Greenville-Spartanburg WWWX/Appleton-Oshkosh WXDX/Pittsburgh WXEG/Dayton WXPN/Philadelphia WXSR/Tallahassee WXTB/Tampa WYSP/Philadelphia WZNN/Green Bay WZOR/Green Bay KHTR/Spokane, WA KZGL/Flagstaff, AZ KFEB/Poplar Bluff, MO WPNH/Manchester, NH KLHI/Maui, HI KMRJ/Palm Springs, CA WJZJ/Glen Arbor, MI
London Calling This weekend Brutus is in London (the one in England) for backstage coverage from the Live Earth shows on XM Satellite Radio. You can hear it all on Saturday the 7th on various XM channels. Hit xmradio.com for the full channel description.
Uncle Sam is Who I Am Lou has put together another amazing microchannel for XM. This one is especially themed for the 4th of July and its called Uncle Sam. You can find it on XM 120. It's sort of a musical melting pot of songs about America regardless of genre or type. You may hear James Cagney singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" followed by the Grateful Dead's "U.S. Blues" followed by John Wayne reading the Pledge of Allegiance. Check it out. Lou's summer channel special, XM Summer, has gotten rave reviews in the press including a mention on CNN.com. Also, happy birthday to Lou's grandmother who celebrates her 100th on the 4th of July!!! Happy Birthday to Ba!!!
Smashville Pumpkins LB was on hand for part of the nine night stand the Smashing Pumpkins made in Asheville, NC at The Orange Peel. He taped an exclusive interview with founding members Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain that are being used for the group's official FMQB album release radio special "Inside Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist." It will air on close to one hundred stations around the country. We'll post the list of stations soon.
Lou Man Group LB hit the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City to tape an XM Artist Confidential show with Blue Man Group. The Blue Men and their band performed while Lou interivewed BMG founders and music directors in between the tunes. Listen for it on XM with the schedule time TBD.
LB in KC Lou was backstage from dawn till dusk for the madness is that 98.9 The Rock's Rockfest in Kansas City. He interviewed the entire lineup including Godsmack, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Saliva, Drowning Pool, Buckcherry, Breaking Benjamin, Sevendust, The Exies, Operator, Burden Brothers, Blackstone Cherry and Puddle of Mudd. As a bonus he also did an exlusive interview with Tony, Robbie and Shannon of Godsmack regarding their forthcoming side band Another Animal. You can hear it all coming up on a special edition of hardDrive.
Satellite Party with Satellite Party Brutus made his way to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Performance studios to host a special edition of XM's Artist Confidential Series with Perry Farrell's Satellite Party. The show was attended by less than 40 members of Perry's fan club. The band performed seven tunes with Lou, Perry and the band (which features one of Lou's fave musicians Nuno Bettencourt) chatting in between the music. You can hear it upcoming on XM.
Annie Liebovitz He Ain't As Lou gets to go to a lot of cool events he often takes his trusty Nikon D50 camera along with him. He's set up a bunch of his concert and sports photos at his MySpace page for your perusal. He also wants to thank the guys from Time Again for using one of his recent shots of the band on their web site and MySpace page. Check out the pix at: myspace.com/loubrutus.
Megabrut Friday May 18th 2007 was a historic day at the XM studios in Washington, DC as Megadeth recorded a live interview and show as part of the Artist Confidential series with Lou as the host. Dave Mustaine touched on all aspects of his music, lyrics and life. Along with that the band shredded tunes from their new United Abominations album and an older tune that Dave let Lou pick out. Listen for it in the coming days on XM.
No Sleep Till Camden Along with his Megadeth meeting, Lou has also recently spoken with Evans Blue and Twin Cam. On Sunday May 20th its up to Camden NJ for interviews with Velvet Revolver, Evanesence, Chevelle, Flyleaf, Fuel, The Exies and Buckcherry. Listen for all that on upcoming editons of hardDrive.
Class In Session at Nekro High Brutus was the host for legendary psychobilly band Nekromantix as they hit XM for a performance in The You're Not Invited Concert Series. It will debut on Monday June 4th at 8pm Eastern. After the taping, Lou headed up to the Ottobar in Baltimore to check out the band as headliners on the Hellcat Tour where he also saw great sets from the Heart Attacks and his buds Time Again who played him their new CD that won't hit till January. Great stuff.
Brutus Gets A Major Rush on XM Beginning at 12 Midnight EST this Monday and running into the wee hours on Wednesday morning, listen for Lou on XM as the host of Rush Hours. It's a special looking at the new Rush album Snakes and Arrows where. Listen for a segment every hour across three XM channels including The Boneyard, The Verge and Deep Tracks. Find the schedule at xmradio.com.
Brutus Doubles His Rushes Lou steps up this weekend to host the official album premiere special for the new Rush album Snakes and Arrows which hits stores this Tuesday. LB spent several hours in NYC with the band's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson getting an intimate look at the making of the record. Entitled Inside Rush: Snakes and Arrows-A World Premiere Event, the show is produced by seminal radio publication the Friday Morning Quarterback. Check your local station for time and day. You can hear it across the country on the following radio stations...
KBER/Salt Lake City KCDL/Weatherford OK KCLB/Palm Springs CA KCOC/Bend OR KDKB/Phoenix AZ KDOT/Reno NV KGB/San Diego CA KGON/Portland OR KHTB/Salt Lake City UT KHYT/Tucson AZ KJFX/Fresno CA KKED/Fairbanks AK KKEZ/Fort Dodge, IA KKZX/Spokane WA KLOS/Los Angeles CA KLPX/Tucson AZ KOOP/Central TX KRNA/Cedar Rapids IA KRZR/Fresno CA KSAN/San Fran/San Jose KSHE/St. Louis MO KYBB/Sioux Falls SD KZOZ/San Luis Obispo CA KZRK/Amarillo TX WAMX/Huntington WV WAQX/Syracuse NY WBBB/Raleigh NC WBZT/Greenville SC WCLG/Morgantown WV WCMF/Rochester NY WCSX/Detroit MI WCWP/Long Island NY WDHA/Morristown NJ WDVE/Pittsburgh PA WEGR/Memphis TN WEGW/Wheeling WV WEOS/Rochester NY WGIR/Manchester NH WGRF/Buffalo NY WHEB/Portsmouth NH WHJY/Providence RI WHLK/Madison WI WIIL/Chicago IL WIRX/Benton Harbor MI WIYY/Baltimore MD WJXQ/Lansing-East Lansing MI WKHY/Lafayette IN WKLC/Charleston WV WKLR/Richmond, VA WKQQ/Lexington-Fayette KY WLFR/Atlantic City NJ WLUP/Chicago IL WLVC/Warminster PA WLVQ/Columbus OH WMHB/Central Maine WMMQ/Lansing MI WMMR/Philadelphia PA WMXT/Florence SC WONE/Akron OH WOUR/Utica-Rome NY WPDH/Poughkeepsie NY WPTQ/Bowling Green KY WPXC/Hyannis MA WPYX/Albany NY WRAT/Monmouth-Ocean NJ WRCQ/Fayetteville NC WRIF/Detroit MI WRKF/Baton Rouge LA WRKI/Danbury CT WRKR/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek MI WROV/Roanoke/Lynchburg VA WRSU/New Jersey WRXR/Chattanooga TN WSMS/Columbus/Starkville/Tupelo MS WSOU/New Jersey WSUE/Sault Ste. Marie MI WTUE/Dayton OH WXFX/Montgomery AL WXKE/Fort Wayne IN WXMM/Norfolk VA WZZO/Allentown PA
10 Questions with Lou Brutus Recently, radio industry website All Access asked Brutus to take part in their seminal 10 Questions feature. This was the outcome...
1) What was your first job in radio? Early influences? I began as an intern at WMMR/Philadelphia. From there I became morning show producer and then the first intern to ever become a member of the airstaff in the station's history. On the Rock radio side I was always a big fan of the WMMR staff, especially Joe Bonadonna, Earle Bailey, Bubba John Stevens and Michael Tearson. From out of New York I loved WNEW-FM, particularly Scott Muni, Allison Steele and the great Vince Scelsa. Steve Lushbaugh, the longtime Production Director at WMMR, has always been someone whose work I've admired . I have certainly learned much of what I know about creating radio audio thanks to him, as well as WMMR's Pierre Robert and John DeBella.
Outside of the radio world, Frank Zappa was a big influence. He taught me different ways to look at the world and how to listen to and shape audio. I still miss speaking with him. George Carlin, Warren Zevon, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Looney Tunes and The Firesign Theatre were also very important to me. They all had genius ways of approaching word play, word craft and, in the case of Firesign Theatre, audio manipulation.
Finally, I have to mention Hunter S. Thompson. If you want to learn how to master the English language in its most twisted and violent form, Hunter is your man. One day I will write a book about my adventures with him. Soon after, I will be carted away to jail where the guards will beat me mercilessly and snarl viciously as they drag me down to a windowless cell where I will meet my bloody doom. Res Ipsa Loquitur.
2) What led you to a career in radio? Radio is all I've ever wanted to do since I was a little kid. Growing up in Central New Jersey allowed me to get all of the New York stations and all of the Philly stations as well as the Jersey stations. I remember my mom listening to William B. Williams on WNEW-AM in New York and thinking that it must be a pretty cool gig. It was when I became enthralled with the staff on 77 WABC in New York that I knew I had to be in radio. Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy and Cousin Brucie are all true legends. These were guys that had millions of listeners hanging on every syllable. They were Jolly Green Giants walking the Earth -- with microphones.
If I had to pick my favorite of all time, it would have to be Dan Ingram. He is simply the best DJ who has ever lived. The rest of us are not fit to lick the soles of his Florsheims. I think a lot of my sensibilities of how to meld multiple ideas into a single, cohesive break (and do it quickly) go back to what Dan does. He is a giant. He is a God. I would kill for him.
3) What career path would you be following had it not been for this industry? I think I would like to work in a hat store. "What size do you wear? No, I'm sorry. We don't have that." I think I could do that. What are the hours?
4) Where do you see the industry and yourself five years from now? The industry and I are opening a haberdashery together on Martha's Vineyard. We've taken a lease out on an old, converted church. We're going to call it Hats in the Belfry.
5) What can we be doing with our station web sites to better our stations as a whole? Less clutter, more info. I bail on some station sites before I actually see anything as there is so much crap slowing the page down. Also, more hats and hat-related items. Maybe the site sections with buxom women could be spruced up if the gals were in hats. Nothing says class like a half-naked harlot in a derby!
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