Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath Is Back! Ozzy and Company Discuss Their New Album

Black Sabbath Harmony Gold Music 6/6/13 Forty-three years after singlehandedly inventing heavy metal, Black Sabbath are set to release 13, next week, their 19th studio album, and first to feature the (mostly) original lineup of Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Ozzy Osbourne since 1978's Never Say Die ... More >>

5 Offbeat Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Tired of frequenting the same routine haunts for entertainment? Suffer no longer with these fantastically quirky events, from Kathy Griffin ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Metal Albums in History: 20-11

If you count Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut as heavy metal's birth, the genre is now over 40. It can no longer be called a fad. It can have adult children, and it can run for president. (Insert "presidental metal of freedom" joke here). See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List ... More >>

The Creepiest, Goriest, Most Terrifying Heavy Metal Album Covers

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... Helloween Better Th ... More >>

Top Ten Metal Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal

See also: *Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz *Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Ever heard about the guy at a party who overheard other guests talking about how much they enjoyed metal? And then about how he tried to fit in by mentioning ho ... More >>

Food Word Clouds: Pink's Hot Dogs

Today's adventure in food word clouds comes courtesy of Pink's, the hot dog stand (legendary, iconic, fabulous, pick your overused yet applicable adjective) on La Brea. This is not the ordinary menu but the "super specials" menu, from which you can order hot dogs created for actual legends and icons ... More >>

Top Ten Best Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

Dio-era Black Sabbath​See also: *Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal *Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio: Who's Better? One of the biggest stories in metal this year is the revolving door for vocalists. Jesse Leach has returned to Killswitch Engage. Iced Earth played their fi ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio: Who's Better?

​[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] A singer's voice impacts a band's sound so much that a replacement basically creates a ... More >>

Let's Be Honest: Concerts Are Too Fucking Loud

Chris Reed​By Gabrielle Canon Everyone likes to argue about which bands are the best. But there's one thing everyone agrees on - louder is better. At the end of the day, we all seem to want amps that go to 11. Concerts these days are louder than just about anything else in daily life, unless ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>

Top 10 Famous Vegans

A recent piece by the Associated Press got us thinking: Where are all the famous vegans? Gossip sites already tell us about famous people dating so-and-so, famous people shopping at some boutique you've never heard of, famous people traveling to some island they own, but we hardly get to hear about ... More >>

Lazy Ox Canteen: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

William Shatner's New Album Of Sci-Fi Covers? Not Bad! He's At Amoeba Today

​See also: William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details William Shatner's first foray into music was 1968's The Transformed Man, a novelty of Shakespeare and Cyrano de Bergerac passages paired with a couple of pop tunes, "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Lucy in the ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Postcards From the Edge of the Stage

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Page Two: Cerebral Ballzy Are Brainy, Nuts

William Shatner Reveals Song Lineup for His Upcoming "Metal Album"

​Back in February, we broke the news that William Shatner was working on a star-studded new album with some of LA's most prominent metal session musicians (Read "William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details"). Well, now WilliamShatner.com (of course there' ... More >>

'RACH & ROLL

Ozzy Osbourne Defies "Sudden Illness" to Play Gibson Amphitheatre Tomorrow

MTV.com​ Yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne had to cancel a show in Reno. "Based on advice from doctors, it is with great regret that Ozzy Osbourne is postponing his show ... at the Reno Event Center," CNN reported that Live Nation's Chris Martinez said in a statement. "The multi-platinum Rock & Roll H ... More >>

Music Picks: Iannis Xenakis Now and Tomorrow, Ozzy Osbourne, War Tapes, Liz Pappademas

Also, Savage Republic, Tanya Morgan, the Church, the Fling and others

Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne in Matching TRON Outfits (WTF Pic of the Week)

​There used to be a big football game called the Super Bowl. Then that got overshadowed by the TV ads played during the Superbowl. Then that got overshadowed by trailers and ad campaigns for the TV ads that played during the Super Bowl. Now apparently all of that is being overshadowed by "Maki ... More >>

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

Watch Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) and Ozzy Osbourne at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally!

Funny > Intolerant​Looking for the musical highlight of the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"? Look no more. Here's Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens), Ozzy Osbourne and the O'Jays performing a bunch of songs about trains. Watch:

Today in "Man Bites Dog" News: Ozzy Osbourne Is "Sickened and Disgusted" by Christian Extremists

Ozzy wants Christian extremists to get off his "Crazy Train"​By now you've probably heard about the insane Christian extremists of the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based organization that espouses rabidly intolerant causes and theatrically intervenes in public events and funerals spewing ... More >>

Sunset Strip Festival: West Hollywood Declares August 26, 'SLASH DAY'

Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"

For Sale: £2 million Wine Cooler

Think Bartles & Jaymes meets Ozzy Osbourne. Or maybe Mikhail Prokhorov. This enormous silver wine cooler will be up for auction at Sotheby's in July, and is expected to sell for between £1.5 million and £2 million. The cooler was commissioned by the third Lord Raby in 1706, and was designed by Ph ... More >>

Video Interview: Slash Talks Solo Album Details, Guitar Center Contest, and His New Attitude Towards Frontmen

Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"​On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>

Once Bitten, Twice Fried: Best French Fries in Los Angeles, Part 2

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, pe ... More >>

I Am Ozzy: Soon-To-Be Classic Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne's Upcoming Autobiography

​There are some amazing sentences in Ozzy Osbourne's new autobiography, I Am Ozzy. In fact, the book starts off with a classic disclaimer: Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past forty years I've been loaded ... More >>

Interview: Slash Talks LAYN Rocks Benefit Concert, Reveals Surprise Guest Steven Adler

Erin BroadleySlash... not on a jet to Vegas​There's an old photograph in Slash's autobiography of him and actor Charlie Sheen on a private jet, where they're probably headed to Las Vegas. Sheen wears the guitar legend's signature black top hat and mugs for the camera, while Slash, Heineken in ... More >>

Down on the Strip

Sunset Strip Music Festival: The Freaks Come Out During the Day, Too

View more photos in Timothy Norris' "Sunset Strip Music Festival" slideshow. God bless the Sunset Strip. Hipsters can pooh-pooh it all they want as they ride their purple-tired fixed-gear bikes through Silver Lake, but for a sheer what-the-fuh!? parade of humanity, nothing beats the Sunset Strip. ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival Street Fest

Sunset Strip Music Festival Set Times Announced

Eric VanBeekOzzy Osbourne last month at BlizzCon​The Sunset Strip Music Festival occurs this Saturday at Sunset and Doheny in West Hollywood. They're closing down Sunset, will plant a stage at each end, and will open a few clubs for bands all day and night. Below is the schedule: East Stage ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Fights Blazing Fire at BlizzCon 2009, Hoses Thousands

This past weekend Ozzy Osbourne gigged BlizzCon, the convention held by top-tier gaming producer Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of, among others, World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. From the photos that LA Weekly's Eric VanBeek snapped during the show at the Anaheim Convention Center, th ... More >>

Heaven and Hell, and Dio, Geezer, Iommi and Appice

There are many reasons why this legendary band is not calling itself Black Sabbath — even though it could

Ozzy Sells Out

Bat heads going cheap? Osbourne Collection estate sale

Beasts

Masqued

Diamonds and Dust

Slushed in 2003

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent

Bass of Operations

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Year In Music

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

Understanding Ozzy

Children of the Grave

From Black Sabbath to modern heavy metal: The dark at the end of the tunnel

Kill 'Em All

Ozzfest: Murder or suicide?

Be Hair Now