Homes for Our Troops, a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. We are strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is our duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.

Homes For Our Troops is building a house in Massachusetts,

for SSG Michael Downing. This is an AMAZING story! 

The are holding a ‘Build Brigade’ to build the weather tight shell of the house on

 December 11, 12, 13 in Middleboro, Ma.

They need skilled labor, volunteers, materials etc.

Click Here for all of the information and to sign up or donate!

Let’s get this house built in time for the holidays! 

I’m taking today off,  not because I am a Veteran, but because I am married to one.  In this time in our nation’s history, it’s more important than ever to show our Veteran’s that we support them and that we are thankful for their service.

We all know someone from the Vietnam era who was yelled at, spit on and disrespected because they served their country… 

 ’Not on my watch!’ 

Our generation has the chance to do, what our parents generation didn’t do… Welcome home those who have volunteered to protect this great country of ours!

Today is a day to thank your family members, friends and total strangers for being brave and selfless. Today is a day to celebrate those who made it home and a day to remember those who didn’t!

If you have worn a uniform in service to our country, I can say with my whole heart…

Thank you!

If you’re looking for a way to thank a Veteran, check out these groups and causes.

www.homesforourtroops.org

www.patriotguard.org

www.skipcares.org

www.taps.org

www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com

www.peasegreeters.org

Watch this documentary about some local volunteers who thank our troops as they return home.

The Way We Get By – Trailer from The Way We Get By on Vimeo.

It’s on tonight!

Click here to get more info on where you can see it and when!

And, if I met you overseas as part of my Boston To Baghdad trip, just know that I think about you every day!

One of the benefits of being the Music Director of WAAF, is hearing new music WAY before anyone else! Today I got a chance to hear some of the new Slash album that will be released in March of 2010. We should have the new single (which is going to feature Ozzy on lead vocals) in January!

This song was AWESOME!

And, the lyrics are going to piss off Axl & Black Sabbath!

I heard Chris Cornell, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, and even Fergie lending their voices to Slash. They were all great! Also featured on the lineup… Lemme, Iggy, Alice Cooper, Flea, Duff,  Myles Kennedy and you guessed Dave Grohl!

According to my ’source’, Slash wrote the ‘blueprint’ for the songs with someone specific in mind. Then, he asked that person to get involved and help write and record the track! Every song has a bit of Slash and the other musicians in it… Very COOL!

This album is going to be HUGE!

There is a song online already, that was released by the Japanese band the B’z as their b-side.

It’s Slash with Cypress Hill and Fergie doing Paradise City…

Wanna hear?

Believe it or not, this is what the rest of the country thinks  Bostonians are like!

In some cases it’s dead on!

If you’re a fan of the show Mad Men, you’ll get all of the jokes!

Otherwise, it’s still pretty funny! Especially when a member of NKOTB is in it!

Slipknot’s legendary self-titled debut is being re-issued in a limited edition package with the full-length LP and a 10th anniversary T-shirt.

The LP is being pressed on green vinyl for the first time in 10 years specifically for this special piece. Each order will also come with a 10th anniversary Slipknot poster, available exclusively with this offer. GO HERE to make it yours.

Well, I know this is going to stir up some debate…

With Rihanna hitting the interview circuit, talking for the first time about her physical abuse with then boyfriend Chris Brown (just in time to promote her new album)…

Here’s the new Marilyn Manson video.

The question?

Does this video promote domestic violence, or is it art imitating life or is it Marilyn Manson just trying to piss people off? Or, is it all 3?

I will tell you that I had a hard time watching it all of the way through, so watch at your own risk.

What do you think?

BTW, is it a coincidence that the girl in the video looks just like his ex, Evan Rachael Wood?

Click here to watch ‘Running to the Edge of the World’

So, what do you do when you’re in a band and you’re on the cover of Revolver magazine for the first time?

Well, if you’re Lzzy from Halestorm, you go to the store and buy a copy!

Check out Halestorm when they play acoustic Friday morning at the Hard Rock for the

Bite Me Beauty Pageant with the Hill-Man Morning Show

Click here for all of the details!

Well, we were all thinking it… and FINALLY Chris Cornell has come to his senses!  This new version of ‘Never far Away’ is actually pretty good! Is it too little, too late to save his career? We’ll see! How long before we hear that Soundgarden is getting back together?

Check out this article from www.exploremusic.com

When tracks from Chris Cornell’s third solo album, Scream, started making the rounds last year, fans were confused.  The producer was Timbaland?  Electric R&B grooves?  And is that freakin’ Justin Timberlake on backing vocals? AN ‘N SYNC DUDE ON A RECORD BY THE GUY FROM SOUNDGARDEN?!?  The only thing missing was Kayne to grabbing the mic halfway through a song. 

Give Cornell credit for trying to shake up his solo career with a bold statement.  But the bottom line is that Scream did not work.  Outside of a kind review from Entertainment Weekly (they gave it a B+), the album got savaged by critics and fans.  It was a Grunge God/ Timbaland Fail. But if you listened to Scream carefully, there was some good stuff underneath all the overproduction and R&B beats. 

Michael Friedman, a Canadian ex-pat working in LA in the licensing and placement of music in films and TV, certainly thought so. “I heard some ‘Black Hole Sun’ greatness deep within some of the songs,” he told me, “I also got to know Chris as a friend.  I ended up calling Jordan Zadorozny [of the Canadian indie band Blinker the Star and co-writer of song with Courtney Love and friend of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham].”  I flew him down to LA and had him listen to some of the tracks in hopes that he could remix them somehow.”The first track to emerge from this de-Timbalanding of Scream is “Never Far Away.”  In its original form, a funky mess obscurs what was actually a pretty good Soundgarden-esque mid-tempo rocker.  Jordan peeled back all the beats and turned up whatever guitar was there.  The result is a proper Chris Cornell song.

 Through a roundabout series of connections, I managed to get Michael on the phone yesterday.  And with Chris Cornell’s permission, he sent me this unreleased re-imagined, de-cluttered and grunged-up version of “Never Far Away.”Could this be the beginning of a Scream mulligan? 
(PS: ”Michael tells me that this version is a total re-recording, not a remix.”)

U2 will be streaming their concert live online from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena this Sunday!

Via YouTube, the concert will be available for free viewing around 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

YouTube seems to think they’ll be able to handle the millions of users accessing the site to watch the concert and it will be available for replay after the live showing.

Couldn’t we have lived without KISS Bingo!

The manufacturer says: 

This 11″ tall box has everything you need to play the KISS version of this classic game. The beautiful Love-Gun themed packaging contains: KISS Tally Board, 200 KISS Bingo Chips, 20 KISS Bingo Cards, 75 KISS Bingo markers and it’s all topped of with an KISS Logo embroidered cloth bag to hold your chips.

NOOOOOOOO! Please guys I’m begging you to cut it out!

KISS fans, if you can’t live without this dumb thing

Click here to buy it!