Posts Tagged ‘ozzy’

5 Former Music Badasses Whove Lost Their Way

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Today, we look back on five musicians who once typified everything that was dangerous and threatening about music but eventually went on to be a sad, soft, shell of their former selves. Hey hey, my my.

Who She Was: Sinead O'Connor? A badass? You bet, once upon a time anyway. There was a time when Sinead couldn't go to the store for cigarettes without coming home with a brand new controversy to be embroiled in. Take her performance at the…

80s Metal Music Throwdown: UK vs US

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Metal hit its commercial peak in the 1980s, with countless bands from around the globe hitting it big. It was mainstream whether we liked it or not. To this day, the 80s will always be remembered for metal music, most of it (aside from such massive bands as Scorpions and AC/DC) coming out of the United States and United Kingdom.

“how the heck does Metallica have more votes than Ozzy Osbourne?” –Simple: Metallica sold out and gets a ton of radio play as a result with all of their new crap. I’d be willing to bet that more than half of…

Nine Inch Nails album earns $1.6M on Web

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Ghosts I-IV gets just under 800,000 transactions in first week

Ghosts I-IV,? the bands first release since becoming a free agent last October, went on sale March 2 at its Web site, http://www.nin.com. Fans can receive the first nine songs from the 36-track project for free, or can pay $5 for…