HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/10/21

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/10/21

Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 4/10/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

THIS LAST WEEK WEEK ARTIST SONG TITLE SPINS 1 1 FOO FIGHTERS Waiting On A War 2015 2 3 PRETTY RECKLESS And So It Went 1828 3 2 CHEVELLE Self destructor 1772 4 4 POP EVIL Breathe Again 1468 5 5 SEETHER Bruised And Bloodied 1441 6 9 OFFSPRING Let The Bad Times Roll 1325 7 7 BRING ME THE HORIZON Teardrops 1319 8 6 ARCHITECTS Animals 1273 9 8 AC/DC Realize 1252 10 10 COREY TAYLOR Samantha’s Gone 1132 11 11 AYRON JONES Mercy 1071 12 14 A DAY TO REMEMBER Everything We Need 914 13 13 ESCAPE THE FATE Invincible f/Lindsey Stirling 864 14 15 DEFTONES Ceremony 833 15 16 GRETA VAN FLEET Heat Above 809 16 17 ZERO 9:36 Adrenaline 739 17 12 PAPA ROACH The Ending 733 18 18 BLACK STONE CHERRY Again 693 19 21 RISE AGAINST Nowhere Generation 662 20 19 BLACK VEIL BRIDES Scarlet Cross 649 21 22 DIRTY HONEY California Dreamin’ 575 22 24 BADFLOWER F The World 521 23 23 DES ROCS This Is Our Life 454 24 26 ATREYU Warrior f/Travis Barker 365 25 28 ROYAL BLOOD Typhoons 363 26 25 LOVE AND DEATH Down 350 27 27 MYLES KENNEDY In Stride 306 28 29 10 YEARS The Unknown 296 29 30 ALL TIME LOW Monsters f/blackbear 285 30 31 EVANESCENCE Better Without You 261 31 39 MAMMOTH WVH Don’t Back Down 236 32 32 MACHINE GUN KELLY Bloody Valentine 235 33 33 TETRARCH You Never Listen 228 34 34 KEITH WALLEN Dream Away 219 35 35 A KILLER’S CONFESSION Remember 177 36 42 BEARTOOTH The Past Is Dead 168 37 38 PLUSH Hate 157 38 40 FOUNDRY Not This Time 154 39 37 3 DOORS DOWN The Better Life (2021) 154 40 43 DAUGHTRY Heavy Is The Crown 152 41 36 BAD OMENS Never Know 148 42 41 CORE Save Me 130 43 44 OH! THE HORROR Tears Of Gold 110 44 45 WEEZER All My Favorite Songs 88 45 47 OF MICE & MEN Anchor 77 46 46 TEENAGE WRIST Earth Is A Black Hole 70 47 51 DEAD POET SOCIETY Coda 64 48 48 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit 62 49 52 GOJIRA Amazonia 60 50 50 THE VIOLENT Impression 49

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

THE DAMN TRUTH – “This Is Who We Are Now”

It’s virtually impossible to think of anyone besides Robert Plant fronting Led Zeppelin, but what if Jimmy Page discovered Janis Joplin before Plant? Could that combination have created magic together? We’ll never know the answer to that question, but we can make an educated guess based on the modern-day version of that combo that is Canada’s The Damn Truth.

This is not to say that The Damn Truth is nothing more than a blending of two legendary influences. Quite the contrary! This four-piece unit out of Montreal has a timeless, layered sound that is pure rock and roll the way that it was meant to be played. Though catchy with a great hook, “This Is Who We Are Now” has an underlying mystique that takes you back to a bygone era.

This powerful song, which features a collaboration by all four members, was born on the road. Guitarist Tom Shemer shares the back story of the song…

“I’ll never forget the moment when I was driving to a gig in eastern Texas and PY (Letellier, bass) was sitting in the passenger seat next to me. I told him, ‘Dude, press record on the voice memo,’ and I hummed, ‘This is who we are now’ into his phone. Months later, as the band laid down the track in the studio, Lee-la (Baum, singer) walked into the control room, grabbed the microphone and without writing anything down on paper, she did the take. That was it. Done.”

The Damn Truth rocks as hard as any rock and roll band out there today, but according to Baum, they are
“rock ‘n’ roll hippies” at heart who believe in self-reliance, community, peace, and love. Based on their origin story, that is an apt description of who they are. When Baum and Shemer first met, they were both naked at a hippie festival near the Sea of Galilee. They’ve been together ever since. It sounds like a Hollywood story. If someone is smart, they will option this story and have this killer act do the soundtrack to give them deserved exposure to the masses.

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

The following is a list of songs that we feel deserve to be added to Active Rock playlists…

THE DAMN TRUTH – “This Is Who We Are Now”

ANY GIVEN SIN – “The Way I Say Goodbye”

TAKE THE DAY – “Burning Alive”

CRASH MIDNIGHT – “Killing Time”

GEMINI SYNDROME – “IDK”

DANKO JONES – “I Want Out”

FOOLPROOF – “Violent”

DANNY WORSNOP – “Love You More”

CAVO – “Come Undone”

SMITH/KOTZEN – “Running”

THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”

THEM EVILS – “Coattails”

I FIGHT FAIL – “Here”

SILENT THEORY – “Shaking Cages”

SORAIA – “Tight-Lipped”

SMASH INTO PIECES – “Real One”

PAUL BARTOLOME/KELLIN QUINN – “Set Fire To The Rain”

THE RELENTLESS – “Disarm”

GREATEST GAINERS…

ARTIST SONG TITLE SPIN INCREASE OFFSPRING Let The Bad Times Roll 109 RISE AGAINST Nowhere Generation 107 MAMMOTH WVH Don’t Back Down 102

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