Thrash Hits — While we were wandering around the Sonisphere Festival arena in a drunken, slightly damp haze, we spotted several posters for Hellfire Festival which had some very interesting names on it. (Saxon and Anvil, just in case you can’t read the title.) S... more info

Bones from a mass burial pit (above) in Weymouth have been dated to the late Saxon period after initial scientific testing. Picture courtesy Oxford Archaeology Scientists analysing the bones of executed bodies from a mass grave uncovered at an ancien... more info

Rolling Stone — Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been slightly derailed. The pair were forced to cancel dates in Buffalo and Albany, New York, because Joel is suffering from flu-like symptoms, the AP reports. Billy Corgan debuted a new song tentati... more info

Stereogum — Last night a one-time supergroup dubbed Spirits In The Sky paid tribute to psych-rock pioneer Sky "Sunlight" Saxon at LA's Echoplex. Bringing together Billy Corgan's pickup group, Electric Prune bassist Mark Tulin, and Strawberry Alarm Clock keybo... more info

Rolling Stone — Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi—who’s currently in a legal battle with Ozzy Osbourne over the rights to the band’s name—has signed a deal to allow Next Films to use Black Sabbath as the name of a horror movie franchise, The Hollywood R... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Hey Los Angeles, heads up: this Friday, July 24th, there is a Sky Saxon Tribute being held at the at the Echoplex in Echo Park.  The Seeds leader died Thursday, June 25th, in an Austin, TX hospital at the age of 71 — the cause of death is at pre... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Following the unexpected death last month of The Seeds' Sky Saxon, the previously planned California '66 Revue tour has been revamped to feature Jerry Miller from Moby Grape [ tickets ] alongside The Electric Prunes [ tickets ] and Lo... more info

NME — Linkin Park and Metallica headline the Knebworth gathering more info

Totally Fuzzy — Zakk said...Day 10 of our Summer Series on the Sixties brings you The Small Faces. There are two compilatins (from both Decca and Immediate periods) plus a collection of BBC recordings, We celebrate 40 years of Allman Brothers Band with Hour Glass, t... more info

Allmusic Blog — Sky Saxon, lead singer with 60s garage punk legends the Seeds, died on the morning of June 25, 2009 (or as his official web site put it, he “passed over to be with YaHoWha”); as it happened, he died the same day as both Michael Jackson an... more info