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lineups

Ozzfest Clipped To One Day In Dallas, Metallica Stuck Atop Its Lineup

Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica will headline this year's Ozzfest, which is slated to be a one-day festival that will also feature Jonathan Davis, The Sword, Serj Tankian, and many other, crappier metal bands. The show is set for Aug. 9 at Dallas' Pizza Hut Park, a setup that is causing fans to revolt in the official announcement's comment section. (Sample comments: "FUCK YOU Sharron!!!!!!! If it wasnt for the thousands of people like me that payed to see Ozzfest and promote music YOU wouldnt have anything....You have made your last dime from me"; "This Suck This is bullshit ozzfest is only going to be a one day show in TX. Well I am gland that all of other summer tour is not like this like warped tour now we got a new summer tour call rockstar mayhem tour I hope it better than ozzfest") Full lineup after the jump. More »

10:30 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
826 views, 6 comments

Latest by FionaScrapple: The ungodly suckage of solo-Jonathan Davis is nicely balanced out by Devildriver and !OMG! Rigor Mortis. more »

And capping a day of festival line-up changes, rumors, and sperm-related news, we learn that the latest rumor regarding troubled ol' Ozzfest is that the metal revue might be transplanted to London's O2 arena this July. A U.S. Ozzfest may also still be a go, whether as a full tour or a single multi-day event, but considering the U.K gave us Ozzy in the first place, it'd only be fair if they took him back. [Blabbermouth]

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rumors

Will Ozzfest Be Revamped Into A Coachella For Metalheads?

The last time we wrote about the venerable Ozzfest, it looked as if the annual metal extravaganza was finally being scaled back after a successful decade-plus run, thanks to less-than-stellar attendance last summer. Ozzfest's architects were reportedly planning a "limited run" tour in 2008, down from 25 cities in 2007. But the latest blog blab wonders if this year's Ozzfest won't actually be a tour at all, in what might turn out to be a very limited run indeed. More »

2:15 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Jess Harvell
2,089 views, 5 comments

Latest by Calexxia: How can Rocklahoma be perceived as "less hair metal" when the marquee names that have been released so far are Vixen, Bret Michaels, Tora Tora, and Vain? just sayin'. more »

reductions

Ozzfest To Embark On A "Limited Run" After Free Edition's Limited Success

Last year's edition of the Ozzy Osbourne-helmed traveling metal circus Ozzfest, experimented with letting people in for free, and was subsequently plagued by underwhelming headliners who didn't get paid for their time, lots of crowd unrest, and limited appearances by the man himself. All of which probably led to the amphitheaters where the shows were held only turning up half-full, thus denying the sponsors who bankrolled the fest their chance to reach the maximum number of eyeballs. So it's time for some nipping and tucking! More »

3:45 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
428 views, 2 comments

Latest by Dead Air ummm Dead Air: How about I pay them to stop? Oh wait, I don't care enough to do that. more »

Ozzfest-in-the-Garden-State Update: It looks like two poor schlubs actually died of overdoses at last night's debauched Ozzfest stop in Holmdel, N.J., which means I feel kinda bad for poking fun at it earlier. Josh Homme and capitalism were right: no good can come of a free Ozzfest. [Blabbermouth]

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boone's farm and lordi: perfect together

Ozzfest: Giving Kids Their First Taste Of Eventual Prison Life

In the 900th report of mass arrests at an Ozzfest stop over the last few months, almost 100 metalheads were fingered for underage drinking and other rowdy behavior at a tour stop in New Jersey. It's almost like the cops have realized that drunken teenagers would congregate at a free outdoor metal show. Kids from 11 to 111 were arrested, either for being intoxicated or just getting too damn hype in the mosh pit or other forms of civil disobedience. Still, even though I seem to have moved into the only town in the state without a bar, you have to love my adopted home, where the newspapers' headline writers choose the more poetic "arrested for booze" over the functional "arrested for underage drinking."

More Than 80 Arrested For Booze At Ozzfest [Trentonian]

10:00 AM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By jharv
195 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tenno: I'm sure some of them were just doing their 'hilarious' Ozzy impression at the wrong time. "Mumble mumble fucking Jack!" "Hey that kids drunk! Get him!" more »

free to fight

Ozzfest Attendees Try To Bring Chaos Of General-Admission Shows To Crummy Colorado Shed

Ozzfest's stop at the Coors Amphitheatre in Colorado wasn't only notable for Ozzy Osbourne's post-show hospital visit—someone decided to make Static-X's set more exciting by inciting "an absolutely ridiculous and shameful war of thrown items between the lawn-seat visitors and the reserved-seat visitors," according to a blogger for MyFox Colorado who goes by the name of "SCRIBE2": More »

8:46 AM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By mjohnston
388 views, 10 comments

feuds

Warped Vs. Ozzfest: Let The Beef-Flinging Begin

Is this what rock and roll infighting has come to—a war of the words between the organizers of touring summer festivals? Apparently, yes. (Man, between this and the WaMu news, today is a pretty wan day for rock and roll.) Here's the first quote that runs in a Kansas City Star piece on the free edition of Ozzfest, which hits town next Monday: More »

1:05 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By mjohnston
524 views, 4 comments

politics

Taiwan Hoping To Ride Ozzfest's Crazy Train Into The UN

The Taiwanese symphonic-doom metal outfit ChthoniC will be hitting the road on this summer's free-to-all-comers Ozzfest, and it's planning to stump for its home country along the way: More »

3:36 PM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By mjohnston
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the truly detestable, the summer festival

Your Local Awful Outdoor Concert Venue May Go The Way Of Ozzfest's Ticket Revenues

If you haven't purchased your ten-dollar lawn tickets for the Family Values tour, featuring Korn and whoever is in Evanescence these days, you might want to grab some before the 20,000-seat amphitheater is a thing of the past. The giant outdoor pavilions on the outskirts of larger cities are becoming less and less useful to concert promoters, and they're being replaced by venues less than half their size. With concert megapromoter Live Nation selling off venues near cities like Nashville, Indianapolis, and Columbus, will the boomer-oriented package tour (this year's models include a package with Styx and Foreigner opening for Def Leppard) soon be a thing of the past? More »

4:04 PM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By dangibs
1,296 views, 11 comments

Latest by Roger Kaputnik: Missed headline opportunity: "The Dissing of Summer Lawns" -JM more »