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Having cancelled a forthcoming performance that was billed as Black Sabbath’s farewell gig, set to take place at Tokyo’s Ozzfest in November, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed there are now plans for a final album, as well as a world tour, in 2016.

At a recent press conference at Monsters Of Rock in Brazil, Ozzy expalained: “The plan is that next year we’ll do the final Black Sabbath tour and album. I’m not stopping… my wife spends all my money so I can’t.” But the plans “could change,” he adds. “We all live in different countries and some of them want to work and some of them don’t want to, I believe. But we are going to do another tour together.”

Keep your ear to the ground for details of, what looks to be, the band’s last hurrah. And keep a closer eye on Geezer, here.

After sending us home with ears ringing, following a joyous encounter at The 100 Club last month, Metz are streaming their long awaited second album in full right now via NPR.

II is due for release May 3rd via Sub Pop, stream it here.

Tracklist:

Acetate
The Swimmer
Spit You Out
Zzyzx
I.O.U.
Landfill
Nervous System
Wait in Line
Eyes Peeled
Kicking a Can of Worms

Having just released his thirty fourth (!) studio album out of Jack White’s famed Third Man Studios, living legend Neil Young has today revealed his next endeavour will be to a collaborative album with Lukas and Micah Nelson, sons of iconic country musician Willie Nelson, for an anti-Monsanto album titled ‘The Monsanto Years’.

Ever urging his fans to boycott Starbucks, and openly criticising the food industry, the record is said to contain song titles such as ‘Rock Starbucks’, ‘Monsanto Years’ and ‘Too Big To Fail’ and is due for release on June 15th.

Watch this fan-filmed footage of a recent live appearance featuring material that is said to appear on the upcoming album.

Nottingham’s finest new purveyors of 90s indebted guitar fuzz, Kagoule, have announced their long-awaited debut album, Urth, for August 21st via Earache Records.

Following the band’s recent string of 7”s, first album cut ‘Gush’ see’s the trio careering through wonderfully weird and warped grunge-rock territories with gusto as they deliver powerful hooks above a scuzzy, off-kilter groove.

Pre-order the album here and catch them in the UK on the below dates.

Tour Dates

April
14 – London, Oslo W/ Balthazar
16 – Kent, The Ball Room
18 – Nottingham, Music Exchange
18 – Nottingham, Rough Trade
20 – Birmingham, The Oobleck w/ Nai Harvest + Best Friends
24 – London, The Shacklewell Arms
25 – Leeds, Berlgrave Music Hall

May
14 – 16 – Brighton, The Great Escape
22 – Manchester, Dot To Dot
23 – Bristol, Dot To Dot
23 – London, Fluffer Fest @ The Shacklewell Arms w/ Telescopes, LOOM, Demob Happy
24 – Nottingham, Dot To Dot

June
9 – London, Birthdays W/ Theo Verney
10 – Brighton, Prince Albert W/ Theo Verney
25 – Birmingham, One Beat Festival

Following 2014’s full length, The Best Day, Thurston Moore has announced he’ll take his solo avant-garde rock show on the road through Spring 2015.

Joined by the Thurston Moore band, James Sedwards of Nought on guitar, Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine on bass and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth on drums, the quartet will play the below dates through May 2015 with an appearance at Latitude in July.

May
2nd Live At Leeds
3rd Live At Glasgow
14th The Great Escape, Brighton
15th Oslo, London – Sold Out
16th Oslo, London
18th Phoenix, Exeter
19th Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
20th Cluny, Newcastle
22nd Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
23rd Sound City, Liverpool

July
18th Latitude, Suffolk

Aussie psych-pop giants Tame Impala have unveiled the first single from their upcoming third album, Currents. Sketched out whilst touring across the globe since the world-wide explosion of 2012’s Lonerism, the upcoming album is also entirely written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Perth mastermind, Kevin Parker.

Stream ”Cause I’m A Man’ here and check out the UK tour dates below.

September 2015 UK Tour

4th Electric Picnic – Dublin, Ireland
5th End of the Road Festival – Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, UK
8th Barrowland – Glasgow, Scotland – SOLD OUT
9th Olympia – Liverpool, UK – SOLD OUT
10th Bestival – Isle of Wight, UK

After blazing a trail through The 100 Club last month, and gracing us with brand new material from the forthcoming METZ II back in February, the Toronto noise fiends have dropped a second offering from the record in the form of ‘Spit You Out’.

Opening with a token shotgun snare roll its business as usual with Alex Edkins’ relentless, throat shredding, mantra spat all over this riff-ridden little ditty. There’s a twisted guitar solo chucked in there too, get some below and catch them live in London at The Underworld on June 16th with support from Bad Breeding.

Metz II is due May 5th via Sub Pop.