Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Geezer Butler in NJ in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler was arrested just after midnight on Tuesday night for for misdemeanour assault, public intoxication and vandalism after a bar fight. Rolling Stone reports:... more info

TMZ — Ozzy Osbourne's right hand man in Black Sabbath -- bassist Geezer Butler -- got busted for a bar fight, and spent a night in jail.Sources tell us Butler was in a bar at the Furnace Creek Ranch near Palm Springs on Tuesday ... when the brawl broke… ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Cancer Bats at The Studio at Webster Hall in 2013 (more by Harriet Roberts) Toronto hardcore/hard rock blenders (and sometimes Black Sabbath cover band) Cancer Bats will return with their fifth album, Searching For Zero, on March 10 via... more info

Stereogum — By any reasonable metric, the Clash are one of the five best bands in British history. (The others, if you’re keeping score at home, are the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pulp, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.) In honor of their history, the BBC has pu... more info

Stereogum — With the Pizza Underground now a mere fossil in the internet’s craggy, meme-filled canyon, it’s time for something new to come along to satisfy our generation’s need for joke cover bands based on food puns. Enter Mac Sabbath, the self-professed... more info

Mercury News, California — Ice-T, Hollies, Afghan Whigs, Joni Mitchell, Ry Cooder collections from Rhino should also prove popular this holiday season. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — the greatest metal band of all time in NJ in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) On Thursday, we posted MetalSucks' list of the 25 greatest metal bands of all time as voted on by a poll of musicians, critics and... more info

The Telegraph — The Black Sabbath singer collected awards among pop stars Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber more info

The Independent — Following in the unlikely footsteps of Ozzy Osbourne's Black Sabbath, country-pop singer Taylor Swift has been announced as the first headliner of the British Summer Time concert series in Hyde Park. more info

Stereogum — Just as they followed up the Chicago episode of Sonic Highways with a club show at Cubby Bear, Foo Fighters followed their HBO show’s Nashville episode with a Halloween gig at the Ryman. The band dressed up like KISS. Below, watch fan-made video of... more info