Black Sabbath

Devendra Banhart has heart, soul

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Devendra Banhart throws down an implicit challenge. You may have pigeonholed the 28-year-old singer/songwriter. You may think Banhart, who played Berklee Performance...

Carole's Seminal Albums: #2 in an occasional series

The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

This week it is David Bowie's 1970 (released in early 1971 in the UK) album The Man Who Sold The World This album was where the blueprint for his later incarnation as Ziggy Stardust can first be seen, not least because it is where the nucleus of the Spiders From Mars first comes together. The album was a real departure from what had come before as far as Bowie's music is concerned. The sound is heavy,...

Ozzy Osbourne Says McCartney Refused To Work With Him

Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rock Radio is reporting that Beatles legend Paul McCartney once refused to work with Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath singer says – and his negative reponse was actually a positive honor. Osbourne tells Heat magazine that he was working in the studio next door to McCartney, and took the opportunity to ask him to collaborate. He explains: “Meeting Paul McCartney was f’kin phenomenal....

Being the underdog never deters a driven Brown

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Scott Brown was not always the self-assured state senator, lawyer, National Guard officer, triathlete, and Republican candidate for US Senate that he is today. Far from it.

RetroGaming with Racketboy Podcast #3: Wizard of Wor

Retro Gaming with racketboy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Note from racketboy: The newest installment of the podcast finds Dave sitting down with two world record holders for Wizard or Wor, one of the two games featured in this month’s Together Retro. Wizard of Wor is a tough game. Anyone who has played the game for an extended period of time can appreciate seeing [...]

If bands were food . . .

5pm Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Loving this thread on The Word's website about bands and their food equivalent. Obviously, a lot of them are just straight down the line abuse. It doesn't take the finest comic mind in the world to equate The Stereophonics with spuds. However, some are rather more thought provoking. The Radiohead and Marmite comparison works for [...]

Citay: "Dream Get Together"

Wild Mercury Sound (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Citay ’s first self-titled album, from 2006, posited Ezra Feinberg ’s Bay Area collective as a fractionally heavier wing of the acid-folk movement, filled as it was with a kind of mellow, medieval-tinged rock that seemed indebted to the acoustic dalliances of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath . Read more...

Stephen King talks 'telepathy' in St. Paul

StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Novelist Stephen King, who likes hard-rock music from Metallica to Black Sabbath, got a rock star's reception at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

Dave Grohl is part of the trans-generational supergroup Them Crooked Vultures

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Them Crooked Vultures, playing Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Saturday, is a trans-generational supergroup with singer-guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age); drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters and Nirvana); and bassist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).

Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs In Cartoon History, Part 2

Woot! - One Day, One Deal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn't notice that a lot of those songs were pretty lousy. Presenting part two of a three-part exploration we're calling Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs In Cartoon History . Don't worry - you'll still understand what's going...

Ozzy Osbourne @ Madeo Restaurant!

CelebrityPuke.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

The one and only Ozzy Osbourne had dinner with wife Sharon and some friends at Madeo restaurant last night! Ozzy was also kind enough to sign some vintage Black Sabbath records for waiting fans afterward! Photo:CelebrityPuke.com

How Black Sabbath Killed The Hippie Dream...

The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Some days I find myself genuinely shocked by the music press. Since May, I’ve noticed a complete lack of excitement regarding the Black Sabbath remasters. How can you ignore the Sabbath? Do critics begrudge them for pissing on and killing the hippy dream? I think they might. After all, the band introduced working-class anger, stoner sludge grooves and witchy horror-rock to flower power. Black...

• Remasters of reality: How Black Sabbath killed the hippy dream - The Guardian Music blog

Ozzy Osbourne Fine With Paul McCartney's Snub

Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Ozzy Osbourne says that he was okay with the fact that Paul McCartney refused to collaborate with him. In fact, Ozzy, who has been a lifelong Beatles fan and even went so far as to cover the Fab Four's 'In My Life' on 2005's 'Under Cover,' was flattered by the snub. "Meeting Paul McCartney was f---ing phenomenal.," the original Black Sabbath frontman told UK...

Zero The Hero

A Motörhead fan-blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

My mood is somewhat like the North Atlantic weather at the moment - changeable, very changeable but Pop Pickers any gloomy listlessness is as always shortlived here in Victory Mansions and it's onwards and outwards. Stiff upperlip and all that. So blind was I in 1983 that I refused to condemn the Black Sabbath album release Born Again . However, deep down inside I knew this was a busted flush, as much...

Osbourne 'delighted by McCartney snub'

Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Ozzy Osbourne says that he was complemented by Sir Paul McCartney's refusal to work with him.

• Ozzy Osbourne - Osbourne Delighted By Mccartney Snub - Contactmusic Ltd

Kelly Osbourne Ran Up A $4,000 Phone Bill

somu3g | 11/11/2009

Kelly Osbourne ran up a £2,500 [$4,100] phone bill. The presenter - whose parents are Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy and "America's Got Talent" judge Sharon Osbourne - was astonished when she got her recent statement as she thought she had been careful to curb her cell phone use while in America competing in reality TV show "Dancing With The Stars." She said: "Oh, my God, I've just had my most expensive...

Black Sabbath Tribute part II ('75 -'78)

super radio blog | 05/03/2008

Sunday Night Black Sabbath Tribute @ Radiogas - from 8,30 to 10 PM.