Ozzy Osbourne

Ten Unlikely Musicians Whose Best Songs Are Slow Jams

Over time, rock and roll lost touch with its "Love Me Tender" and "Peggy Sue" beginnings and became kind of a closet Quiet Storm listener sometime around the time Ozzy Osbourne entered the collective consciousness. Except even hair metal was dominated by lighter-wavers. Basically, no one can resist ... More >>

Former Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Is Back to Kicking Asses Again

Pulling no punches

These Artists Should Sell Coffins As Merch

Sorry to throw salt in your New Year's revelry, but as something begins, so too something ends. And that makes us think about death. Because we're sick. And practical. Sickly practical. Practically sick. ANYWAY, the imminence of death begs an essential question: how will you be buried? It's never ... More >>

Jay-Z Coldplay = Play-Z: A Rundown of Other Oddball Mashups

On New Year's Eve Brooklyn's Barclays Center will be alive with the monster double-bill of Coldplay and Jay-Z. Two titanic musical entities that have spent the past decade being the epicenter of their genres, their alignment for one night is sure to be a colossal way to bring in the new year. But de ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Th ... More >>

15 Sexual Insights And Lovemaking Technique Tips From Mötley Crüe

Former Jarvis Cocker backup dancer and current Seattle Weekly Dategirl Judy McGuire's new book, The Official Book Of Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll Lists, is rife with lists counting down debauched and out-there moments of —Ozzy Osbourne's health tips, pot-smoking hints from Willie Nelson, marri ... More >>

BAD TO THE BONE

Everything you can learn 
from rock stars in one book

Live: Megadeth Keep It Muted At The Theater At Madison Square Garden

Gigantour: Megadeth, Motörhead, Lacuna Coil, Volbeat The Theater At Madison Square Garden Saturday, January 28 Better than: The World Needs a Hero in its entirety tour. Dave Mustaine has spent the better part of this young decade on a mission to restore his image. He's put out a bestselling auto ... More >>

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Helmet

Weapons, Women In Lingerie, And Lots of Theatrics

​No, that's not a night in Ozzy Osbourne's house. It's what the group Roma! serves, aiming for a sort of Velvet Underground version of Queen as interpreted by Fellini, Raymond Chandler, and a 1920s cabaret. They're damned good--and I don't just say that because the lead singer, Kenyon Philli ... More >>

Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?

​"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40

​ When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>

Betty Ford, R.I.P.

​In recent years, people holding the vice-presidential seat have had complicated, if not vaguely hostile, relationships with pop music. Before Al Gore became Bill Clinton's veep in 1992, his wife Tipper founded the PMRC. In 2002, six years before taking his seat to the back-left of Barack Obam ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Documentary Reissues, Repackages, But Doesn't Re-Evaluate The Prince Of Darkness

By Eric Hynes ​God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli Starring Ozzy Osburne, Sharon Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Kelly Osbourne, Bill Ward The most overexposed of rock stars receives yet more attention thanks to this standard-issue biopic, which premi ... More >>

Super Bowl Aftermath: What Was The Best Commercial?

​There were so many celebs filling up the valued time between touchdowns at last night's Super Bowl that it almost made the long, laborious evening worthwhile for me. (I said almost.) Jazzing up all the high-powered commercials were starry names like Joan Rivers, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Timothy ... More >>

Week in Review: Who's Your Daddy?

​In the week we began our countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010, we celebrated by mocking efforts from the Far East Movement, Ringo Starr, Godsmack, Trade Martin, and Lil Wayne. Where will Susan Boyle fall? Tune in next week and suffer more abuse until you find out.

Live: A Revitalized Ozzy Osbourne And Rob Halford Stay Young At Madison Square Garden

Good advice. Pics by Phil Freeman, more below.​Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Halford Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 1 Better than: Any other Ozzy performance of the 2000s. Ozzy Osbourne is turning 62 on Friday. That makes him older than his new guitarist (the shredtastic Gus G. of Greek power ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

Iron Maiden

Tonight! Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne, and Francois K

​In the words of our very own Jason Gross, "They've still got the two cute and aging boy-toys and the two weird-looking guys also." Yes, he is referring to none other than Cheap Trick, and yes, they are playing the Fillmore, wielding, as always, guitars with enough necks to impale a small army ... More >>

BLACK MONDAY

Meet the Prince of Darkness himself

Pentagram+the Gates of Slumber

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over reason, we pleaded to our editors at the Village Voice to let us publish the No. 1 entry as one of t ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 27: Kelly Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne, "Changes"

Someone figured out a way to make Ozzy even more incoherent! In retrospect, it's hard not to see The Osbournes as the first sign that the modern world was entering its Post-Dignity Era: The sight of the Prince Of Darkness doddering around his house, his brain turned to mush by the colony of ants ... More >>

F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s

Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. ​It's super-cute to peruse decade-end lists and pretend to be enthusiastic about true artists like Arcade Fire, timeless m ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Heaven & Hell+Coheed & Cambria

Heaven & Hell Rise Again

The return of Dio-Era Black Sabbath

Ozzy Doc's Defamation Suit Against Post Dismissed

The New York Post dodged a bullet from Ozzy Osbourne's doctor, David Kipper. Courthouse News Service reports that a judge has dismissed a defamation suit against the Post on the grounds that, in condensing a Los Angeles Times dispatch, the paper inaccurately told readers that Kipper's license had be ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 15 through 21

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

Collective Soul's "Shine" Soon To Be Christened Virginia Tech's "Helter Skelter"

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony: Good Times!

Is Hipster-Metal the Enemy?

Osbourne/Maiden Beef Leads to Gunfire

The Bat's Blown Chunks

Never say die unless you pronounce it like the Germans do

Music

Wanna Earn Respect? Remake Your Mom's Favorite Songs!

Bombs Away

Heavy Artillery From an Idiot Underground

Hunks and Has-Beens

Reality TV—Pop Thrills at 'Human Amusement Parks'

Listings

NY Mirror

Friendly Ghost of a Mullet

Banned in the U.S.A.

Annals of Dicks, Drugs, and the Devil

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

Just Between Friends