According to Rolling Stone, Ozzy Osbourne will now find the permanent replacement for Zakk Wylde that he was unable to find in 2005.

Rumor had it that Ozzy was looking to replace his long time guitarist before recording the 2007 LP Black Rain. Apparently any auditions that may have occurred were not successful considering that Wylde was present and used during the recording sessions. However, Classic Rock magazine, in an interview with the Prince of Darkness, is now saying that the search is on again, and John 5 from Rob Zombie is the front runner. The following is an excerpt from the interview. “I’m getting a new guitar player as we speak,” Osbourne explained, “and everyone has been saying to me for a long time, ‘Get Johnny 5!’ And I tried him at one time and I didn’t really give him a chance. We’ll see, I don’t know. I haven’t fallen out with Zakk, but Zakk’s got his own band, and I felt like my stuff was beginning to sound like Black Label Society. I just felt like I wanted a change, you know?”
Classic Rock Magazine In the mean time, Wylde seems to have been left out of the loop. On his Twitter account, Wylde posted the following Tweet. “I’m doing [the] BlizzCon [convention in Anaheim, California] with [Ozzy] in August and supposed to finish up the [new Ozzy] CD in September…This is news to me. I haven’t heard anything about this. Until I talk to the Boss, I don’t know. I love Ozzy.” Recording has already begun on Ozzy's latest album. OzzFest 2009 was cancelled by Ozzy in order to complete the recording of his latest project.

After completing their next record, Backspacer, Pearl Jam will once again be hitting the road in the US. Last month, they previewed a song from their album, entitled "Got Some," on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. We posted a video of the performance here.

According to the band's website, "The tour kicks off in the band's hometown of Seattle, WA with two shows at the Key Arena on September 21st and 22nd, and closes with two shows at Philadelphia's historic Spectrum on October 28th and 30th. Ben Harper and Relentless7 will open all dates, except for the Spectrum shows. All dates are subject to change."

Pre-sales for Backspacer begin today for Ten Club members. Visit the band's website for more information.

Weezer recently released a video of their MGMT/Lady Gaga cover using video clips from their tour. The cover is a mix of the songs "Kids" by MGMT and "Pokerface" by Lady Gaga.

After amateur videos of the performance began popping up across YouTube, the band felt compelled to release an official video. The video is embedded here. If you need to hear it live and raw, we have also embedded a fan recording of the performance. Enjoy.

Our friends over at the Consequence of Sound were able to sit down with Ben Kweller to discuss the responses to his latest album, Changing Horses, among other interesting topics. The country-esque nature of his this latest project enabled the musician to connect with new fans and introduced new opportunities. However, it didn't please everyone. The following is a brief excerpt. How have the last six months treated you since the release of Changing Horses? Is it a completely different experience to release a folky, alt-country sort of album album then it is a more pop oriented album?

The experience has been great… It seems like lots of my fans like the acoustic songs anyway and my folky stuff so, I think it’s been a fun album for them. The coolest thing though it has opened my music to lots of new fans… to people who never heard of me before, or heard of me but didn’t like the rock stuff. So, this album has been a real door opener in a lot of ways. The rest of the interview can be seen here.

Limp Bizkit, fresh off of its "Unicorns N Rainbows" tour across Europe which ended July 5 in Paris, is set to return to the USA in Las Vegas. The band will be performing at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms Casino for free on July 18.

The tickets are first come, first serve at noon the day of the show, and each individual is allowed a maximum of two tickets.

This is the only scheduled stop in the US before they head back over seas to the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth in the UK. They are then scheduled to appear in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan for Summer Sonic. Check out the Limp Bizkit website for more details.

Rolling Stone is reporting that the Foo Fighters will be playing a single show on the South Lawn of the White House for President Obama and friends to celebrate the 4th of July. The show will be one of many activities scheduled for the First Family's 4th of July party. This is a slightly unexpected development considering that the Foo Fighters have been on hiatus and David Grohl is currently focused on his new daughter, April, who was born in April. I suppose an invite from the President would change the plans of most people...