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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Feb 9, 2017

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

Tommy Lee on Ozzy Osbourne: "He has this sort of signature move. He kind of jumps in one place and claps. There’s an evil smirk on his face as he’s doing it, but I think the evil smirk is happiness because the place is going bananas." nytimes.com/2025/07/03/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. As the Prince of Darkness prepares for his final concert with Black Sabbath, admirers including Lars Ulrich, Lita Ford and Billy Corgan extol his virtues.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

Marco Di Maro, a hotelier from Palermo, Sicily, said in an interview on Friday that he had been sleeping in a tent next to some young women who had traded friendship bracelets featuring the names of Oasis songs, Taylor Swift-style. nytimes.com/2025/07/04/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. Liam and Noel Gallagher put aside their brotherly rivalry to play the first date of their band’s long-awaited comeback tour in Cardiff, Wales.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

"For around two hours, Oasis toggled back and forth between masculinist ecstasy and a sometimes fumbling search for it in a frills-free and dogged performance." nytimes.com/2025/07/05/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The British band, a showcase for the intoxicating but toxic chemistry of the brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, performed for the first time in 16 years.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 22

Listen to 12 essential Ozzy Osbourne songs. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The frontman, who with Black Sabbath helped pioneer heavy metal in 1970s England, always found new ways to reinvent himself.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 22

Ozzy Osbourne, who achieved massive success as a pioneer of two disreputable but popular entertainment genres, heavy metal music and reality television, died on Tuesday. He was 76. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to his rock ’n’ roll infamy.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 14

40 years after Live Aid, it’s still personal for Bob Geldof. nytimes.com/2025/07/13/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The rock star-turned-activist reflects on the 1985 benefit concert and why it could not happen now.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 14

More Woody Guthrie songs? Yes, from a trove of homemade recordings. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs and a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.”

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

If the show played like a mixtape of some of metal and hard rock’s greatest riffs — Metallica’s “Master of Puppets,” Slayer’s “Angel of Death,” Pantera’s “Walk,” Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City” — none felt as monumental as those from Sabbath’s own catalog. nytimes.com/2025/07/05/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The metal luminary, 76, took the stage with his original bandmates at a farewell festival in his Birmingham, England, hometown on Saturday night.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

As she had for her two blockbuster albums, “Control” (1986) and “Rhythm Nation 1814” (1989), Janet Jackson turned again to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the Minneapolis maestros, for her next offering. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. Hear six sensual songs by the pop great.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

Rebekah Del Rio, mournful singer of "Mulholland Drive" fame, Dies at 57. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/art…

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

The sexual encounters at issue in the Sean Combs trial took place on small stages: hotel rooms and homes. These were not orgies where Combs interacted openly with celebrities and music honchos, but discrete encounters with girlfriends and escorts. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The sweep of graphic lawsuits accusing Sean Combs of sex abuse led to a sense that his criminal case might examine celebrity debauchery in the music industry. It did not.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

A profile of rock ’n’ roll’s Yogi Berra, the man whose tossed off “Ringo-isms” became immortalized in Beatles song titles like “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Tomorrow Never Knows.” nytimes.com/2025/07/02/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. As he turns 85, one of the last surviving Beatles is still musically curious, dispensing his signature wisdom, and preaching the gospel of peace and love.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

“The classifications of ‘last tour,’ ‘last chapter,’ ‘end of career’ are all valid,” Gilberto Gil said. “I’m essentially on an excursion that will end a cycle that has lasted more than 60 years.” nytimes.com/2025/07/09/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. At 83, the lauded Brazilian singer and songwriter whose career in music and politics has encompassed six decades is on a farewell tour.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

They came by the thousands. They dressed in black, with T-shirts featuring crucifixes, dragons and demons. They gathered to honor a figure of almost religious significance in the heavy metal world: Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness. nytimes.com/2025/07/06/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. Heavy metal fans crossed continents to converge on Birmingham, England, and throw devil horns in honor of the Prince of Darkness and Black Sabbath.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

Justin Bieber has surprise-released a 21-song album, “Swag,” full of lo-fi experiments and unexpected collaborators. Hear the Playlist. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. Hear tracks by Tyla, Kassa Overall, Syd, Jay Som and others.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

The first concert, in 1981, featured a young Irish band named U2. The next year, the Rolling Stones played for 70,000 ecstatic fans, and Mick Jagger stayed for dinner. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/wor…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. To preserve his Irish manor, he staged concerts on its grounds, drawing the likes of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Madonna, 50 Cent and the Rolling Stones as well as tens of thousands of fans.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

Pusha T and Malice reunite as Clipse, with vengeance on their minds. The duo's new album, “Let God Sort Em Out,” is out today. nytimes.com/2025/06/24/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The duo of brothers known for rapping with single-minded focus is returning with “Let God Sort Em Out,” its first studio album since 2009.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

“Virgin” debuted at No. 2, a reflection of the fan enthusiasm Lorde has held tight to for the decade-plus since she shook up pop’s insider-outsider balance. But on this album she’s implicitly pondered whether being famous is all it’s cracked up to be. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The beloved pop singer’s fourth album, “Virgin,” once again ponders whether being famous and obsessed over is all it’s cracked up to be.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

The counts on which Sean Combs was convicted, which fall under a federal law known as the Mann Act, are far less severe than the sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges, which carried a potential life sentence. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. The music mogul was convicted last week on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, each carrying a maximum of 10 years in prison.

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New York Times Music@nytimesmusic · Jul 11

His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/art…

nytimesmusic's tweet card. His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.

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