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

L.A. Times - Entertainment — "Zac Brown. Black Sabbath. Foo Fighters. I don't know, what do you kids want from me,” David Letterman asked his audience on Monday after Foo Fighters pulled out a cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” alongside Zac Brown. more info

Stereogum — When the Foo Fighters announced a five-day residency on the Late Show With David Letterman as they’re getting ready to drop both an album and a TV show, it seemed likely that they’d debut five of the songs from that album. One night in, though, a... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Black Sabbath frontman follows in the footsteps of Queen and Eminem by winning the gong... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — I said what??? (more by Greg Cristman) Ozzy Osbourne released the following statement last night:OZZY OSBOURNE STATEMENT RE 'THE MAIL ONLINE' 9-11 NEWS STORY: "Firstly, I never spoke to 'The Mail Online.' Several quotes were pulled from another inter... more info

NME — Black Sabbath singer says: 'I never want to offend or hurt anyone' more info