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The boxes are stacked outside the Beverly Hills home, ready to be carried in. Each is neatly labeled: “pots and pans,” “linens,” “devil heads,” “dead things.” Plainly, Ozzie and Harriet aren’t moving in. This Ozzy is Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal rock star, and his family. Their arrival in the neighborhood heralds a hilarious new MTV series, “The Osbournes,” that premieres 10:30 p.m. EST Tuesday. MTV describes it as television’s first “reality sitcom,” a format that suggested itself naturally because nothing they could invent around the Osbournes would be as funny as their actual lives. Just the idea of the… Read more »

After finding their first bit of cross-country exposure on the second stage of Ozzfest in the summer of 1998, System of a Down have officially graduated. The progressive metal outfit has been tapped to co-headline this year’s edition of the rambling rockfest. While dates and additional acts for the festival have yet to be lined up, System announced that they will hit the stage just prior to the tour’s namesake, Ozzy Osbourne, when the trek kicks off in July. Spokespeople for Ozzfest were unavailable for comment. After its coming-out party on the Ozzfest second stage in 1998, the band returned… Read more »

Sure, touring and making videos with Rob Zombie is cool, and that upcoming reality show about Ozzy and his kin, “The Osbournes,” is sure to be a rib-tickling delight for the entire family. But anyone who wants to experience Ozzy Osbourne at his finest or who’s unfamiliar with his pre-Ozzfest days might want to check out the digitally remastered reissues of four of his most influential discs, which are being released March 26 with previously unavailable tracks. Blizzard of Ozz will include “You Lookin’ at Me Lookin’ at You” and a live recording of “You Said It All,” Diary of… Read more »

Beck, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, and Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness have been added to an already impressive list of top-shelf acts that will perform in Los Angeles on February 26 to help raise funds for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC). However, LAUNCH has learned that Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, and Rob Zombie are no longer participating in the potentially historic night of music. Beck, Vedder, and Ness will co-headline a show at the Wiltern Theater. Playing elsewhere on the same night, for the same cause, will be the Eagles, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, and Stevie Nicks at the… Read more »

After three months of heartfelt September 11 benefits, lots of musicians, including Ozzy Osbourne, No Doubt, Korn, Weezer and Elton John, are starting to focus once again on their own financial concerns. A bunch of successful musicians from a variety of genres have united to organize four simultaneous benefit concerts for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC), a group that seeks to create more equitable standards for recording musicians. Billed the Concerts for Artists Rights, the four shows will take place in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County, California, areas on February 26, the night before the 44th annual Grammy… Read more »

Despite what legions of metal followers would have you believe, Ozzy Osbourne is apparently mortal after all. The heavy music pioneer has suffered a stress fracture and will have to reschedule 10 dates on his Merry Mayhem tour, according to a statement released late Friday (November 9). Ozzy injured his leg when he slipped stepping out of the shower before last week?s Merry Mayhem stop in Tucson, Arizona. The metal kingpin then proceeded to tour on the broken leg for a week before seeing a doctor on Thursday and being ordered to rest. As a result, Ozzy?s Merry Mayhem trek… Read more »

Hundreds of Ozzy Osbourne fans lined up to pose with the heavy-metal pioneer Tuesday night in Hollywood at the first of five in-store appearances around the country to promote his new album, Down to Earth. “I am doing this for them,” Osbourne said, pointing to screaming fans as he strolled down the red carpet outside Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. “They’re loyal. It’s like a family.” Nearly 1,000 fans showed up for the event, according to Osbourne’s publicist. During the three hours he was there, most made it into the store to pose with Ozzy and get his autograph on… Read more »

Hundreds of Ozzy Osbourne fans lined up to pose with the heavy-metal pioneer Tuesday night in Hollywood at the first of five in-store appearances around the country to promote his new album, Down to Earth. “I am doing this for them,” Osbourne said, pointing to screaming fans as he strolled down the red carpet outside Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. “They’re loyal. It’s like a family.” Nearly 1,000 fans showed up for the event, according to Osbourne’s publicist. During the three hours he was there, most made it into the store to pose with Ozzy and get his autograph on… Read more »

Ozzy Osbourne’s clip for “Gets Me Through” hit video outlets on Wednesday (October 3). Osbourne told LAUNCH the clip for the first single off his forthcoming album Down To Earth was altered after the events of September 11. “Before this dreadful thing happened I’d made a video for my first video off the album, ‘Gets Me Through,’ and it had fire in it and it had some blood and things in it,” he said. “And MTV so rightly sent it back, and said, ‘We can’t allow this because of what’s just gone down with the World Trade Center and the… Read more »

Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie, Mudvayne and Soil are inviting fans to A Night of Merry Mayhem, the 33-city jaunt formerly known as the Black Christmas tour. Osbourne changed the tour’s name to the more jovial title in light of the events of September 11. The two-month trek kicks off appropriately on Halloween in Tucson, Arizona, according to Osbourne’s publicist. The creepy caravan will meander through the country before returning to the Grand Canyon State and wrapping up on New Year’s Eve in Phoenix. Plans for the tour, Osbourne’s first solo outing in seven years, were announced in August, with only… Read more »