Cutter's RockCast

Continuing the day one Aftershock adventure I was able to catch up with one of my favorite musicians, Billy Howerdel from A Perfect Circle. This show kicks off their North American tour and now that we have new music in the song "The Doomed" it was high time to catch up.

I'm hanging at The Aftershock music festival in Sacramento, CA all weekend seeing live music and talking with rock n' roll friends. When it comes to Stone Sour you never know what will happen when you get into their trailer. I knew I was sitting down to talk to Roy Mayorga, but Corey Taylor and Josh Rand just couldn't help themselves.

Some of the greatest rock albums to ever be released came out in the later part of 1991. Scratch that, some of the greatest albums period came out in '91. Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Ozzy, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Guns n' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more all released career defining albums between the middle of August and the end of September. 1991 has gone down as one of, if not th...

Sam Kiszka is the bassist for the band Greta Van Fleet out of Frankenmuth, MI. (Frankenmuth is also known as Christmas town,) Sam formed the band along with his brothers Josh and Jake. There are only teenagers fresh out of high school and yet their song "Highway Tune" spent most of the month of September on top of the rock charts. That song was also featured in an episode of the Showtime show Sham...

Our lovely Kaytie went and spent some time at the Sonic Boom festival in Janesville, WI on Sunday Oct. 1st. Sure she hung out with some rockstars and other radio friends, but she also got to have a few conversations with some of our favorite people. First Arejay and Lzzy from Halestorm, then Bill Kelliher of Mastodon and finally Joey Dandeneau from Theory (formerly Theory of a Deadman.) Cutter: @c...

Kaytie and I needed to catch up with Avenged Sevenfold ahead of tickets going on sale for The Stage World Tour. Enter bassist Johnny Christ. The tour which also features Breaking Benjamin and Bullet For My Valentine is hitting arenas all over the U.S. starting in early January. There's also a little court case going on that we had to ask about. Plus they just put out an amazing version of Pink Flo...

This interview originally took place live on Facebook, because apparently that's what us media people do now. We talked on Starset's tour bus outside of a venue before they went on to play two giant rock festivals in the same weekend, Louder Than Life and Sonic Boom. Starset's new album 'Vessels' has been doing extremely well and the second single "Satellite" is currently skyrocketing up the rock...

We had such an amazing response to our last (host) podcast about booking shows that we had to do a follow up. This time Kaytie and I are going through the day of the big rock shows and what's really going on behind the scenes. We do our best to answer some questions we've received and explain why you should quit your bitching with technical problems, or severe weather happen. Any comments or conce...

From the shadow of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI I did a live radio show ahead of the annual Razor Edgefest concert. My home radio station Razor 94.7 (WZOR) every year puts on a smaller outdoor show in the parking lot of the Green Bay Distillery. Just so happens that it's directly across the street from the Green Bay Packers practice facility and kitty corner from Lambeau Field. The line-up this...

Over the last few months we've been asked the question on how concert booking works. We have also seen all the negative comments about someone's favorite band playing on a week night, or tickets being to expensive, or the ending to early, or not liking the headliner of a major festival, or whatever other excuse you can come up with. Well a lot goes into booking a tour or even just a one off show....

Kaytie and I had a real quick conversation with the lead singer of Nothing More, Jonny Hawkins. Their second album 'The Stories We Tell Ourselves' came out last Friday and after being able to spend a lot of time with it, we needed to geek out on it. This won't take long for you to listen to, so enjoy our conversation about one of the best newer bands on the block, Nothing More.

He is the outspoken bassist who is most well known for his work in Rage Against the Machine. There was of course those 3 albums with Chris Cornell as the front-man for the band Audioslave. Now Tim along with his RATM/Audioslave bandmates, guitarist Tom Morello & drummer Brad Wilk, are back with Prophets of Rage. Now on the mic though are B-Real from Cypress Hill and Chuck D from Public Enemy. Tim...

The band Wayland have actually been kicking it in the rock n' roll scene for a some time now. After releasing a couple EP's and touring non-stop they have finally announced a full length album called 'Rinse and Repeat' due out on Sept. 22nd. They also have a new drummer in Nigel Dupree (yes he is the son of Jackyl wild man Jesse James Dupree) Ahead of them playing the annual Harley-Davidson Rally...

Lock Kaytie, Rylan and myself in a studio and this is what you get. A conversation about sex at rock concerts. We've all seen it, go to a festival or just a normal show at a club and there's someone who just couldn't wait until they got home, or even to the car. No guests just us hosts sharing stories. This is not PG, it's not rated X, but it's definitely not PG.

Listen, the stories about Scott are almost stuff of legend at this point. A few years ago I was skeptical that he had turned it around, sobered up, concentrated on his family and his music. Maybe we were all a little skeptical that the lead singer of a band that has sold over 50 million records could come back to earth, but he did. Since, Scott and I have had some talks, I've met his wonderful wif...

Cutter went backstage to speak with Pop Evil frontman Leigh Kakaty. The guys talked about the love for Wisconsin and Michigan, the upcoming 5th album and the newest line-up change.

Blacktop Mojo is not a household name, in fact you may have seen this episode title and said out loud, "who?" Well that's what Kaytie and I are here for and we love when we get to introduce you to new bands. Blacktop Mojo comes from a small town in Texas where they grew up on a good dose of country music and cheap beer. Their second album 'Burn the Ships' is out now. It features their rising singl...

Johnny Stevens is the reclusive lead singer of the New York based, grammy nominated rock band, Highly Suspect. I've been trying to have this conversation with Johnny for the better part of a year. Their latest album is called The Boy Who Died Wolf and as it turns out the writing process as already begun on album number three. Art, Poetry, Acting and of course rock music is all covered in this inti...

Backstage at a one off show in Wisconsin, Kaytie sat down for a pre-show conversation with Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger from Halestorm. They talk about living and working in Nashville, playing with other Superstars, Lzzy's "Ask Lzzy" segments and much more.

Hinder stopped by my home radio station Razor 94.7 to talk about their new record 'The Reign' Plus a live acoustic performance of a couple classic Hinder tracks. Oh and what smells in the back of that RV?

Some of my favorite conversations in rock has been with Corey Taylor. This one was no different. Backstage at the festival Rock USA in Oshkosh, WI Corey and I once again have a fun light hearted (mostly) conversation. From the new Stone Sour album 'Hydrograd' to his new book 'America 51' and more enjoy a backstage talk with Corey Taylor.

Backstage at the rock festival Rock USA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin I sat down with Zacky Vengeance the guitarist from one of my all time favorite bands Avenged Sevenfold. Talk of the old school, talk of video games, and of course talk of Stage and their tour with Metallica.

DED is a metal / hard rock band from the Tempe / Phoenix, AZ area. The band's lead singer Joe Cotela and guitarist David Ludlow joined myself and Kaytie via phone to let us get inside their heads a bit. Their debut full length album Mis.an. Thrope will be out on July 21st and don't forget to check out the video for their song "Anti-Everything" which was directed by none other than Limp Bizkit's Fr...

Rylan is back with myself and Kaytie as we discuss 2 pretty major topics. Number one Kaytie had a twitter run in with Zoltan from Five Finger Death Punch after she posted a story about Ivan Moody quitting the band while on stage in The Netherlands. Link --> http://www.razor947.com/index.php/Interactive/Blogs/Kaytie/R/3087 Second: All of sudden the rockstar pissing match is back, this time between...

The band Never Say Die features Dean and Brandon from My Darkest Days. You remember them right? They are the band that brought you the sexy dance anthem "Porn Star Dancing." They were in town to play a show and joined me live on air on Razor 94.7. They talked about the band, their past and performed one song acoustic. Check out a special live on air Rockcast with Never Say Die.