As expected, the four original members of Black Sabbath -- Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward -- announced recently they will reunite and tour in 2012, including a headlining set at the Download Festival in June. The surprise news was that the reunion will include a new album, produced by Rick Rubin, due next fall.
A recipe that includes a nondescript New York University dorm room, a heavyset Jewish kid from Long Island and a street-wise black guy from Queens seems like an unlikely one to cook up musical history.
The day I interviewed Neil Diamond, he was sitting in a little room to the side of a studio, and a makeup artist was smacking him in the face with a powder puff. He was wearing a white wife-beater T-shirt and looked like he wanted to flee.
Neil Diamond wraps world tour and donates merchandise proceeds to the victims of Hurricane Ike. Denise Quan reports.
The Dixie Chicks may have been "Not Ready to Make Nice," but the Recording Academy was nice to the country-pop trio, giving them nominations in the top three categories for the 49th annual Grammy Awards.
Has there been a recent musical project more death-obsessed than Johnny Cash's American Recordings cycle?
The Dixie Chicks don't wait very long to remind us of the dustup surrounding their Bush-bashing remark of three years ago.
Listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new hit single, ''Dani California,'' and you'll get a sense of what's good, bad, and aggravating about "Stadium Arcadium," the band's ninth studio album.
As Shakira slyly announces on "Oral Fixation Vol. 2," she has a 24-inch waist and "humble breasts"; she'd love to be her man's "cherry pie," not to mention "the owner of the zipper" on his jeans.
Jarheads, Talking Heads, and 8 other things we recommend this week:
You've encountered him before, but rarely like this.
Have you ever been trapped in a small space -- say, a bus, subway car or elevator -- with a deranged or intoxicated person spewing nonstop, free-associative verbiage in a singsong manner?
The title of the new U2 album is "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
showbuzzupdated: Thu Sep 09 2004 15:44:00
Strut aside Tyra, Carmen Electra is hunting for a few models of her own.
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