411 Mania — From Ozzy Osbourne, Maynard James Keenan, Axl Rose, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain to John Lennon, Prince, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, and Steve Tyler, the 411Music Staff welcomes its newest batch of writers with a huge compilation of the Top 5 B... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Lil Wayne, U2, MJ, Nas • Clapton on Art of Rock & Roll Singing • Ke$ha Beats “World” as “TiK ToK” Rules • Slash on Recording With Ozzy and Lemmy • Cobain Biographer on Biopic Progress • Beck & Clapton Kick Off Tour ... more info

Rolling Stone — Slash spent more time navigating red tape than laying down guitar lines for his self-titled solo disc, due in stores this April. “It took four months to make the record,” he says. “I had to write all the material then I had to make demos to sen... more info

Starpulse — Former hell raiser Ozzy Osbourne put an end to his cheating ways after a HIV scare saw him wrongly test positive for the deadly virus - and left him contemplating suicide. The ex-Black Sabbath frontman took full advantage of his rock 'n' roll lifesty... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Former hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne put an end to his cheating ways after a HIV scare saw him wrongly test positive for the deadly virus - and left him contemplating suicide. more info

Guardian Music — Lady GaGa's hat-trick helps Brits coverage attract more viewers than last year, but Holby City draws bigger audienceLady Gaga's triple triumph at the Brit Awards was watched by nearly 6 million viewers but was not enough to beat BBC1's Holby City las... more info

Metalsucks — An impassioned email from a reader reacting to my post about Shadows Fall covering “Bark at the Moon” the other day got me thinking that this would be a fun poll to conduct. The reader, David H., vehemently believes that Jake E. Lee was Ozzy’s ... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The list of celebrity memoirists is long and studded with stars — actors, pols, musicians, captains of industry. They’ve got stories; they need storytellers. And they’re increasingly unafraid to reach out for help. Some of ... more info

Metal Injection — by: Frank Godla 40 years ago today Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, & Bill Ward began a music revolution that would breath life into the world's bastard social scene known as heavy metal. On February 13, 1970 the Birmingham quartet kno... more info

Metalsucks — Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Psycho was a massive failure of an experiment, a ridiculous exercise that could never, ever replace Alfred Hitchcock’s original. On the other hand, Shadows Fall’s new video for “Bark at the Moon,” whic... more info