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The pieces of Ashley Cooke‘s next album are coming together. 

The “your place” hitmaker revealed the release schedule for new music in a recent Instagram post. 

“okay okay, you’ve been asking and I simply can’t hold it in any longer,” she begins. “if I’m being honest, this era of creating music has been way more than clever hooks and hopeful ‘ring the bell’ radio songs. it’s been a journal for me, a place to let myself feel deeper, a life line in a year full of one-thing-after-another.”

Ashley goes on to reveal “swear words” will arrive Aug. 22, followed by “tin foil hat” Oct. 3 and “baby blues” on Nov. 14. 

With a promise to reveal more soon, she closed by saying, “couldn’t love you guys more. welcome to the next chapter, make yourself at home.”

So far, Ashley’s put out “the hell you are,” “the f word” and “All I Forgot” since her shot in the dark record came out in 2023.

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In the wake of Ozzy Osbourne’s death Tuesday at age 76, drummer Zak Starkey is sharing his regret at turning down an offer to play with the Prince of Darkness.

In a post on Instagram, Starkey, who has worked with The Who and Oasis, shared a message he once got from Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne, offering him a gig backing Black Sabbath.

Sharon wrote at the time that they were looking for a drummer to back the band at Download Festival and Lollapalooza, which Sabbath played in 2012. The message also said they needed a drummer to play on an album they were working on with producer Rick Rubin, a reference to 2013’s 13. It would become Sabbath’s final album, which ended up featuring Rage Against The Machine’s Brad Wilk on drums.

Sharon ended the message by joking, “Also, Ozzy wants to have sex with you while he is singing Iron Man.”

“Regrets I’ve had a few -this is one – (not the sex part!),” Starkey shared in a caption to the post. “Ozzy will always be one of the greatest, natural, brilliant singers of all time. I send much love and strength to his family at this sad sad time.”

He added, “If u aren’t familiar with the never say die record – get into it – it’s so far out – X,” referring to Sabbath’s 1978 album.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s fifth studio album, Physical Graffiti, and the band has announced some new releases to celebrate, including a new live EP and a deluxe edition of the album.

The EP, titled Live E.P. will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally. It will feature performances of four songs: “In My Time of Dying” and “Trampled Underfoot,” both recorded live at London’s Earls Court in 1975, and “Sick Again” and “Kashmir,” both recorded at the Knebworth Festival in England in 1979.

As a preview, the performance of “Trampled Underfoot (Live From Earls Court, 1975)” is now available via digital outlets, with a performance video now on YouTube.

The band will also release an update of 2015’s three-LP Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition, which includes the remastered version of the album, the bonus album featuring rough mixes and early versions of songs, and a new replica Physical Graffiti poster.

Both releases are due out Sept. 12 and are available for preorder now.

Physical Graffiti, released on Feb. 24, 1975, was Led Zeppelin’s first album to be released under their own label, Swan Song Records. The double album, produced by Jimmy Page, spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and also hit #1 in the U.K. and Canada. It was the first album to go Platinum from preorders alone and has since been certified 17-times Platinum in the U.S.

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Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, a documentary about the all-female ’90s music festival, is coming to Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ this fall.

The film documents the beginnings of the groundbreaking festival, which was started by Sarah McLachlan and her team. It includes interviews taken from more than 600 hours of never-before-seen archival footage, as well as new interviews with artists, fans and festival organizers.

Among those featured are original Lilith Fair artists Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, Jewel, Indigo Girls and Natalie Merchant, as well as current artists who have “carried the torch,” according to a press release, like Olivia Rodrigo and Brandi Carlile. 

“I’m so filled with pride and nostalgia watching this film,” says Sarah in a statement. “…[T]he team have beautifully captured the magic and strength of a community of women who came together and lifted each other up to create positive change in the world. I hope the film resonates with everyone and we can continue to strive to support and champion one another.”

The film comes from ABC News Studios and actor Dan Levy‘s production company, and Levy notes, “Lilith Fair holds a very special place in my heart. It was one of the first spaces where I remember feeling at home. The music, the sense of community, and the power of a group of women proving an entire industry wrong were a tremendous thing to experience.”

The doc will stream on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the U.S. on Sept. 21, just a few days after Sarah releases her first studio album of new music in over a decade, Better Broken.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

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Ozzy Osbourne‘s Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi reflects on his final performance with the late Prince of Darkness in a new interview with the U.K.’s ITV News.

Iommi reunited with Ozzy, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward for the massive Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, which was promoted as the final live performance by the original Sabbath lineup, as well as Ozzy’s last-ever show. Just over two weeks later, on July 22, Ozzy’s family announced that he had died at age 76.

“I think [Ozzy] must have had something in his head that said, ‘Well, this is going to be it, the last thing I’m ever gonna do,'” Iommi says of the concert, which was held in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham, England.

“Whether he thought he was going to die, I don’t know,” Iommi continues. “But he really wanted to do it and he was determined to do it.”

Iommi says that hearing that Ozzy had passed “was a shock for us.”

“It couldn’t sink in,” Iommi says. “I thought, ‘It can’t be.'”

Meanwhile, Lita Ford, who collaborated with Ozzy on the 1989 hit “Close My Eyes Forever,” has written an essay for Rolling Stone remembering him.

“‘Close My Eyes Forever’ is something a lot of people play at funerals,” Ford writes. “A lot of people have love for that song because it’s beautiful. In Ozzy’s name, keep rocking. Great rock stars never truly die.”

Additionally, artists are continuing to pay tribute to Ozzy during their concerts, including Judas Priest, David Lee Roth and Rod Stewart.

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Old Dominion‘s forthcoming sixth album, Barbara, features an enigmatic name and a musical palette that’s hard to explain.

“With us, we never set out to create one specific thing,” Trevor Rosen tells ABC Audio. “We have so many influences that, you know, it’s just another collection, I think, of our favorite songs, songs that we would want to listen to when we get in the car. And so it spans stylistically a pretty wide berth.”

Lead singer Matthew Ramsey is quick to agree, adding, “This one I think is more diverse stylistically than any of them really.”

The 13-song collection arrives Aug. 22, with Barbara pictured on the cover wearing a pink dress, fur and sunglasses, seated underneath an old fashioned hair dryer while smoking a cigarette. 

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Back in May, Spotify released a list of tracks it predicted would become the songs of the summer — but thanks to unexpected releases and last-minute surges in popularity, the streaming platform has now had to play catchup.

Spotify has issued an additional list called Songs of Summer Wildcards — tunes that “have either been released since our initial predictions list, or are seeing a recent spike in global streams,” according to the platform.

The new list includes Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Manchild” and Justin Bieber‘s “Daisies,” as well as BLACKPINK‘s comeback single “Jump,” Addison Rae‘s “Fame is a Gun,” PinkPantheress‘ “Illegal,” and Disco Lines and Tinashe‘s “No Broke Boys.”

The wildcards “reflect the sounds resonating with listeners in real time and the moments dominating culture globally,” according to Spotify.

Among the initial predictions Spotify made in May were “Ordinary” by Alex Warren, “party 4 u” by Charli XCX, “Blue Strips” by Jessie Murph, “How Bad Do U Want Me” by Lady Gaga,” “NOKIA” by Drake, “Love Me Not” by Ravyn Lenae, “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” by Role Model and “back to friends” by sombr.

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