The long-awaited Black Sabbath Reunion Tour, which was set to kick off this May in Moscow, has been canceled due to Tony Iommi’s battle with lymphoma. The metal pioneers will still play the Download Festival in the U.K. on June 10. Many of the Sabbath gigs have been replaced by Ozzy & Friends performances featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler of Sabbath as well as guitarist Zakk Wylde. Head over to CoS for more details. Meanwhile, Bill Ward has issued another statement on Facebook about his contractual battle with his Black Sabbath band mates.
Here’s six other stories of note as we end the week…
- The reunited Beach Boys have released a video for Do It Again
- Dave Grohl responds to his perceived hate of digital music
- Stream yesterday’s moe. performance at radio station KDHX
- Sunday night’s Widespread Panic show will be broadcast live
- Watch Bon Iver perform an intimate 25-minute set in London
- The Who’s Pete Townshend has sold his lucrative publishing rights
Finally, many music fans were shocked and disturbed during Sunday night’s Grammys telecast to find out that there are people out there that don’t know who Paul McCartney is. Funny or Die has put together a hilarious parody portraying The History Channel and Twitter’s biography of Sir Paul McCartney.