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HALLOWEEN 2025

As Halloween season reaches its peak, Lou Brutus will celebrate with a plethora of rock star guests on both HardDrive and HardDrive XL.

Beginning Monday October 26 on HardDrive XL, Johannes Eckerström of AVATAR will join LB each night as Featured Artist of the Week. The band drops their phenomenal new album “Don’t Go in the Forest” on Halloween, the same day they begin their In the Airwaves North American Tour in Mexico City MX. All of the other special guests during the week will be talking about Halloween! They include Of Mice & Men, Autumn Kings, Slash, and Halestorm. On Halloween night itself, the guest list will include Five Finger Death Punch, I Prevail, Seether, Mammoth, and AVATAR.

Then over Halloween weekend, it’s the return of HardDrive’s Halloween Hootenanny! It’s two-full hours of hard rocking seasonal music along with Halloween stories from Slash, Seether, Halestorm, Ice Nine Kills, The Haunt, and AVATAR. All different stories from HDXL earlier in the week!

Happy Halloween from Lou Brutus and HardDrive Radio!

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

It’s been a busy run of live concerts around the country for your friend and humble narrator!

In recent weeks, Lou Brutus has been to Baltimore MD to cover Deftones, then in Des Moines IA to host the L.D. 50 25th Anniversary Tour featuring Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended. This was followed by run of days traveling on the Rise of Roach Tour with Papa Roach, Rise Against, and Underoath. It included a day off in Washington DC where LB took the band to some of the nation’s finest art galleries! He then bounced back to Madison WI to host the nEVEREST Tour with Halestorm, Lindsey Stirling, and Apocalyptica. While in town, Lou also took to time to photograph the former site of Smart Studios, where classic albums were recorded by the likes of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others.

Upcoming shows and tours you can catch LB on include Cheap Trick, AVATAR, and Seether.

Hit both the HardDriveRadio and LouBrutus socials to see the photos and videos!

DARLA 2009-2025

It is with a grief-stricken heart I must inform you that Darla the Wonder Dog, my beloved friend and trusted confidante, has passed away. Against all odds, she celebrated her sixteenth birthday in March of this year, after a long life beset with many serious physical ailments. These included a cancer diagnosis four-years ago for which she endured surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy. Darla fought through it all without complaint and triumphed far beyond what we could hope for. However, the cancer recently reappeared and became too much, even for so valiant a warrior puppy as our brave Darla. She quietly slipped away at home held in the arms of we who loved her so dearly.

My family and I are despondent at the loss of the spirited soul whom I first brought home as a half-starved orphan, long ago. Our house no longer feels like a home, bereft as it now is of her over-sized personality. The rhythm of our lives, which had been happily built around Darla’s meals, walks, and rubs, is now gone. I don’t believe I will ever be happy again.

Darla was known by many nicknames including Pupolis, Darla Lovie, Puppy Beast, Pups, Nups, Schnups, Puppy of Love, Little Miss Pups, Bubba, and The Wonder Dog. She was sassy, opinionated, extremely intelligent, and hysterically funny. Most of all, Darla was filled with love, generating happiness everywhere. Her list of friends and admirers was worldwide, including rock stars and celebrities. She was truly one of the most extraordinary individuals I’ve known. Her loss is a void which can never be filled.  

I will try to find more soon to share of my stubby-tailed soul mate. For now, I hope you will hold your loved ones of fur, feather or fin closely, as they love us unconditionally. Our animal friends are one of the great blessings in life, but their shorter lives are the terrible price we pay for their companionship. Never take a second with them for granted.

Farewell to my sweet, little girl. My precious pup, my adarlable and darling… Darla.

– Lou Brutus, August 2025

GHOST: SKELETOUR

We would like to extend our gratitude on behalf of Lou Brutus and the staff at HardDrive Radio for the hospitality extended by the band and crew of Ghost’s Skeletour. Brutus was there for the opening night of the trek at the venerable CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore MD. The ritual could not have been held in a finer edifice as the musical performance history of the venue includes such luminaries as The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.

LB commented the concert production was “breathtaking” and gave the tour his “highest recommendation.” Following the ritual, he was whisked backstage where the clergy bestowed upon him sacred relics in the form of guitar picks and drumsticks. You can see these items, as well as his photography of the show, on the socials. Papa V Perpetua te benedicat!

DISTURBED AT STURGIS

We are stoked to announced that Lou Brutus will be making his first ever trip to the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis SD. If that wasn’t enough, he will be there to host DISTURBED at the Full Throttle Saloon!

This once-in-a-lifetime event will take place on Tuesday August 5th. Tickets are available now at FullThrottleSaloon.com. This will be one of just a few appearances by the band through the rest of 2025 and will be a concert you brag about attending for years to come. Lou will have a special one-of-a-kind guitar pick from InTune Guitars Picks available only at the event.

Along with getting stupid at the rally, Brutus plans on exploring the surrounding area with his cameras including Devil’s Tower, Mount Rushmore, and the Crazy Horse Memorial. See you there!