The thunderous sounds of Black Sabbath will wrap-up a day long July 4th concert in London's Hyde Park that will include sets from nearly 20 other groups. Soundgarden and Faith No More top the additional acts list, followed by Motorhead, Wolfmother and Soulfly.
Ozzy Osbourne calls the chance to headline in Hyde Park an honor, noting, 'The first time I came to London I didn't have a pot to piss in. I spent the advance I got for the first album on a new pair of shoes and some Brut aftershave. Amost 50 years on, we're doing a bit better for ourselves, so I may even splash on some new aftershave before taking the stage'.
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Hypnotic Eye, a new album of material from Tom Petty & The heartbreakers should be out this summer. The 11 track release has been a work-in-progress since the summer of 2011. Petty tells Rolling Stone the album marks a return to an edgier sounding time int he band's history, noting, 'We hadn't made a straight hard-rockin' record, from beginning to end, in a long time.' While getting Hypnotic Eye out is his top priority, Tom also hopes to release an expanded edition of his 1994 solo release Wildflowers before Christmas. The song in the group of 10 bonus tracks Petty wants to include on the reissue that has him most excited is one he professes to not even remember writing. He calls it '...uptempo but very unusual' . Also possibly in the works is a live release culled from the group's New York and LA residencies in 2013.
A hastily arranged Rolling Stones concert schedule for June 13 went on-sale Friday
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Fans attending Allman Brothers Band shows at the Beacon Theatre over the weekend were disappointed to find founding member Gregg Allman not in the lineup 
Nothing official yet, but Twitter posts from Joe Perry and Slash make it look like a good bet that Aerosmith and the former Guns 'N Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist will be on the road together on a string of US tour dates before the end of the year.
Friday's (3/21) Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre residency concert took place without a key member in residence. Founding Brother Gregg Allman was forced to miss the show with a bout of bronchitis. Keyboard players Kofi Burbridge from the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Rob Barraaco from the Dark Star Orchestra and Phil Lesh & Friends filled-in for Gregg. The 2014 run has featured fewer special guests than past annual stints at the New York venue.
Things are not at all alright between Eddie Money and Kenny Loggins from Eddie's perspective. That came out loud and clear when Money was being interviewed by Kidd Rock on WEBN in Cincinnati. Money says he got zero credit from Loggins after joining him to sing on his biggest solo hit, I'm Alright. Money told listeners, 'I sang the bridge on that, we were label mates, you know'. But he was just getting started on why he says he'd probably punch Loggins out if the two ever cross paths. He followed-up his diss of Loggins for not giving him a credit on the record by saying, 'Kenny Loggins, I mean, how small can a guy be, that he divorces his wife and marries his therapist. Gimme a break!' Next, Money brough up another reason he has no respect for Loggins. Children of both of the singers went up against each other on the MTV Rock The Cradle reality talent competition. Eddie contends his daughter out-performed Kenny's kid, '...the TV people found out that I was gonna be on the road the last week, so they let Kenny Loggins' kid win it, and that kid was a bum too.' When Kidd Chris suggested a celebrity boxing ring might be a good place for Money & Loggins to meet, Money said, 'I'll knock him out in 20 seconds.'
On May 15, the Fillmore in San Francisco plays host to Sammy Hagar's Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert to raise money for the Pediatric Cancer Program at the Benioff Children's Hospital. The Red Rocker has recruited Heart's Nancy Wilson, James Hetfield of Metallica and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to lend their voices for the cause. Other participants in the first-time benefit Sammy hopes to turn into an annual event include guitarist Joe Satriani, and Pat Monahan from Train.
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A studio and stage guitar owned by George Harrison and also played by John Lennon is going up for bids in May. The 1962 Rickenbacker played during the sessions that produced I Want To Hold Your Hand and in early concerts and TV appearances by the Beatles is the center piece of a May 16 & 17 auction Julien's Auctions will conduct at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. Other big ticket items in the online and on-site sale include the first guitar Jimi Hendrix owned, a jump suit Elvis Presley wore on stage and an assortment of items that belonged to Michael Jackson.
L'Wren Scott, a close companion to Mick Jagger for more than a decade, was discovered dead in her New York apartment on Monday 
Zeppelin fans considering buying yet another verison of albums they may have already repurchased in many forms over the years will want to know whether it's worth doing again. Here's some info on what is included in the remastered versions of the first three albums remasterd by Jimmy Page for release this year. 
A night of revelry in Austin, Texas ended in chaos and tragedy when South By Southwest Festival goers gathered near a club called The Mohawk found themselves in the path of a car being chased by the police shortly after midnight Thursday morning 
Neil Young's Kickstarter campaign to raise backing bucks for his Pono music player 
Roger Waters is no stranger to controversy, but the former Pink Floyd member faces a harsh backlash over his decision to project a Star of David onto an inflated pig floating above the audience and stage during recent concerts. The barrage of criticism resulting from that has prompted Waters to writ to the Daily Telegraph to defend his position on the Palestinian situation and contend that he has nothing against Jews. The open letter reads, in part, 'Iam vociferous in my support for the Palestinian people's struggle for basic human rights, including their right to self-determination', and adds, 'It is true that I oppose the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the maintenance of the siege of Gaza. It is not, however, true, that I am an anti-Semite or that I am against the Israeli people.'
Jimmy Buffett is a big favorite with the surfers and their fans, so where better for him to pop-up unexpectedly to play than at a world-class big wave event? Flanked by world surfing champs Kelly Slater and Stephanie Gilmore, Buffett played to a lucky crowd of about 1,000 Friday afternoon
Neil Young is turning to Kickstarter to supplement funding to launch his ultra fidelity music format and player, both of which are named Pono. The March 15 launch of the online campaign will offer people kicking-in some bucks a special discount on the reported $399 price of the player when it becomes available. Young says the superior to mp3 and wav format he has developed is '...about the music, real music' and adds that the PonoPlayer will be '...the world's greatest sounding, user-friendly music player' available. The player is expected to sport 128GB of on-board storage augmented by a memory card slot that can boost that capacity significantly. It is not yet clear how much larger than high sample rate mp3 or wav files the Pono file of the same song will be or whether Young is overstating the degree of difference the average user will experience when he says tat hearing a song of Pono for the first time will be '...like that blast of daylight when you leave a movie theater on a sun-filled day'. 
Running business ventures, hob-nobbing with the rich and famous and being political and social activists apparently has not left the members of U2 enough time to work on music. Billboard has confirmed that the album from the Irish Rockers expected this spring is being pushed all the way into 2015. In addition to making fans wait several more months for the next release, the delay puts a tour that was slated to open in September on-hold for almost a year.
Seeing Ozzy Osbourne in a club setting is an intense prospect. Seeing him in a club with Slash on guitar puts it totally over-the-top. That's what happens in LA when Ozzy receives the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his work on behalf of the MusiCares MAP Fund that assists musicians in the fight against substance abuse. The Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver veteran will tear through riffs made famous by Randy Rhodes and Zakk Wylde on stage at Club Nokia with Ozzy on May 12.
The site of a former arena in Dallas will host a free concert by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band during the Texas City's NCAA College Basketball Tournament week. The April 6 appearance during the March Madness Music Festival adds Bruce to a lineup that also features performances by Tim McGraw,Jason Aldean amd the Killers. The open-air concert portion of the festival is being staged on the site of the former Reunion Arena, the building that hosted the Final Four the last time it was played in Dallas (1986). Organizers expect between 30 & 40,000 people to attend. The Sunday event that closes with the Springsteen set starts at 2pm and is expected to wrap-up with a full set by Bruce and his band starting close to 7pm. The logistics of the event are being complicated by the fact there is a shortage of parking in the area. Robust shuttle service from other sites will be provided.
Frank Zappa was just twisted enough to consider it a compliment that Italian researchers have chosen to name an acne-causing bacteria for him. The grapevine dwelling strain of bacteria discovered at the Italy Centre for Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems and Bioresources is P Acnes Zappae. It is causing a stir because it is the first case of a strain of plant based bacteria that's been found that developed from a human one - an occurance that probably happened about 8,000 years before its namesake wrote and recorded Call Any Vegetable. The scientists involved in the discovery credit the Mothers of Invention founding guitarist, singer and songwriter because his approach to music inspired them to think outside the box when doing their research. Zappa's widow also considers it a fitting honor that a bacteria shares the family name. Speaking with USA Today, Gail Zappa said, 'For me this is just an extension of Frank's means of gluing things together, making sense of the universe. It's strickly conceptual continuity.'
The Allman Brothers Band has been added to the already solid lineup for the 2014 edition of Mountain Jam, the annual festival staged at the base of Hunter Mountain in the Hudson Valley of New York. The full band joins a roster that already included two of its members in their own groups; Derek Trucks will also appear with his wife in the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Warren Haynes, who has helped organize the festival in recent years, will play with both the ABB and his other outfit, Gov't Mule. Sets the Allmans plan to do will include the seminal Southern Rock institution's first two albums in their entirety. Other artists on the 40+ act bill for the June 5-8 festival include Bob Weir & Ratdog,the Avett Brothers, Michael Franti & Spearhead, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Damian Marley, Umprey's McGee, Robert Randolph & The Family Band and the Dark Star Orchestra.
David Palmer, a vocalist that appears on Can't Buy A Thrill and Countdown To Ecstacy albums by Steely Dan , claims that he is owed unpaid royalties for his contribution to the pair of releases. A lawsuit reportedly filed in Los Angeles on Friday 
