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Here are the rock star guests joining Lou Brutus on HardDrive Radio and HardDrive XL!

Over the weekend of October 10/11, we speak to Greta Van Fleet, Motionless in White, Wage War, and Skillet. We’ll also get you Plugged In with Architects. There’s music news in DIRT on Slayer, Parkway Drive, and From Ashes to New. Plus, we unveil the new Screamer of the Week!

Then for the week of Monday October 12, Myles Kennedy will join us each night as Featured Artist of the Week on HardDrive XL. Other Special Guests will include Dead Poet Society, Anthrax, Architects, Skillet, and Chad Gray. The historic interview segments in our newest feature The HardDrive Archive will include Three Days Grace, Bad Omens, KoRn, Ace Frehley, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

It’s Made Loud to Play Loud on HardDrive Radio, as we continue to celebrate our 30th anniversary!

This weekend, Lou Brutus will be covering The Power to the People Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia MD. Curated by Tom Morello, the lineup is stacked with artists from across the music spectrum including Foo Fighters, Serj Tankian, Taylor Momsen, Matter Cameron of Soundgarden, Mike McReady of Pearl Jam, Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Dave Matthews, Jack Black with Jack Sabbath, Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath, Joan Baez, Shepard Fairey, Grandson, Bruce Springsteen, and many others.

Gathering both interviews and images, it will be a busy weekend for LB. Watch for him backstage and in the photo pit. Then check out the content on HardDrive Radio and on the socials.

This weekend on HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus, we will present our 30th Anniversary show! Debuting over the 4th of July in 1996, we’ve spent each week over the last three decades bringing you kick ass new Rock music and conversation with the stars who make it. However, for this special occasion, we will draw each of the interviews from the HardDrive Archive. You’ll hear from Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, David Draiman of Disturbed, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Jonathan Davis of KoRn, and Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch. Plus, each song we play (except one) will be drawn from our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. It features one tune from each year of the show’s history. Be sure to join us for this incredible look back at our thirty-years of Rock!

As the original weekend edition of HardDrive Radio with Lou Brutus celebrates its 30th anniversary over the 4th of July weekend, we are marking the occasion with our 30 Songs from 30 Years list. Beginning with the program’s debut in 1996 and going right up to 2025, we’ve taken one song from each year of the show’s three-decade history. The selections are based on each tune’s original show airplay and listener requests in that given year, coupled with sales and streaming numbers. We know everyone will love the list and no one will disagree with any of the selections! Click on the graphic to see the full list!

We’ll use the list for the songs on the 30th anniversary edition of HardDrive Radio with all of the guest audio drawn from our extensive archives. Made Loud to Play Loud!

Your friend and humble narrator Lou Brutus is featured in a new interview with Mike Stern of Barrett Media.

They cover Lou’s thoughts on his unlikely career in music media, his many adventures with the world’s top bands, as well as the impending 30th anniversary for HardDrive Radio and next year’s 20th anniversary of HardDrive Radio XL.

When asked about his decades of championing new music, Lou quipped, “I always say rock isn’t dead, it just smells that way from being in the pit.”

Thanks to Mike and the BM gang for the time and ink. You can read the piece here.