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Monday, 14 November

The original line-up of Black Sabbath - Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward - have announced they are reuniting to play next year's Donwload Festival on 10 June. The group join Metallica in celebrating the event's tenth anniversary (with The Prodigy rumoured to be completing the headliners) - tickets go on sale at 9am (GMT) on Friday. Sabbath meanwhile have hinted that new material could be on the way.
Downloadfestival.co.uk

Eminem speaks candidly about coming to terms with his various addicitions and why he needed to get clean: "I've realised that the way I am helps with the music. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. But sometimes it sucks, and I wish I was wired like a regular person and could go have a fucking drink. But that's the biggest thing about addiction: When you realise that you cannot - for fuck's sake, you can not - fuck around with nothing ever again. I never understood when people would say it's a disease. Like, Stop it, dickhead. It's not a disease! But I finally realized, Fuck, man - it really is."
GQ.com

Rihanna and Calvin Harris are Number 1 with We Found Love, just ahead of JLS with Take A Chance On Me, in the UK singles chart. Meanwhile Susan Boyle tops the album countdown, the first female artist to have three consecutive albums go straight to the top of the charts in the UK, with Someone To Watch Over Me. Cher Lloyd and The Wanted are also new in the top ten.
Theofficialcharts.com/

Tom Morello explains why he is taking his guitar to the Occupy... protests around the globe in a guest column for Q.
Qthemusic.com

EMI's recording division will be sold to Universe for $1.9bn, while its publishing arm will go to Sony for $2.2bn, owners Citigroup have announced. It's quite a turn around because at one point Universal were alleged to have dropped out of the running as Warners were favourites to purchase the record label. However, while the deal will now be subject to monopoly, mergers and anti trust inquiries, it is believed that should it go ahead EMI will be retained as a imprint within Universal. One person who appears to be happy with the deal is Lily Allen who tweeted "Nice to be on Universal" as it was announced, or possibly she was being ironic...
Wsj.com

Bjork, Guided By Voices and Jeff Mangum are all set to play the Primavera Sound 2012. Yo La Tengo and Neon Indian are also confirmed for the Barcelona festival which takes place between 30 May and 3 June. Meanwhile the event have announced that they will stage a sister festival in Porto with many of the same artists a week later for the first time (7-10 June).
Primaverasound.com

Perhaps they want a free Jaguar, Best New Act winners at the 2011 Q Awards, WU LYF, cover Wicked Game live (via Stereogum.com).

Following an invite via Youtube, Justin Timberlake lived up to his promise to attend a Marine Corp ball held in Richmond in Virginia.
Tmz.com

The secret diary of Rivers Cuomo aged 41 and one quarter? Weezer have announced they are continuing their series of early outtake releases with Alone III: The Pinkerton Diaries. As the name suggests, the release focuses on songs recorded around the acclaimed album, plus includes a book that according to Cuomo is: "a collection of my journals, emails, letters, photos, and school papers - so you get an inside look as to exactly what I was thinking [when I wrote Pinkerton]... everything from the confusion and excitement of trying to figure out girls, to the physically and emotionally harrowing medical struggles he underwent for over a year to correct a congenital leg length discrepancy."
Onethirtybpm.com/
The set - out 12 December can be preordered from Riverscuomo.cinderblock.com

Kate Bush on her new album and abominable snowmen.
Thequietus.com

Bon Iver collaborator, singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards sends us some musical postcards from her tour via this playlist.
Qthemusic.com

A Haus divided? All is not well within the world of Gaga it appears, as according to reports suggest she's fallen out with visual collaborator Laurieann Gibson over reality TV and religious references in videos. Oh and in May Gibson let slip that the Lady's style was originally based on Madonna which we can't imagine Gaga was too chuffed about. Still the spat didn't stop her appearing on X-Factor last night.
NYmag.com

Album leaks are the bane of artists' lives? Not if your name is Drake. "I look forward to leaks - knock on wood. I shouldn't, but I do," he says after Take Care appeared online early. "We all sit in the studio like, The night this leaks, it's going to be so crazy! People talk about, Are you going to go on the Internet? Are you going to stay off the Internet? What are you going to do?"
Billboard.com

Jay-Z got himself into a merchandising pickle over the weekend after releasing Occupy Wall Street t-shirts via Rocawear, but neglecting to give any money to the protestors camped out in New York's financial district. However just as quickly the shirts went on sale, they've been withdrawn... Does HOVA have an eBay account?
Gawker.com

PJ Harvey is working with the Young Vic, composing music for the London theatre's new Ian Rickson-directed production of Hamlet starring Michael 'Tony Blair/ Brian Clough' Sheen.
Facebook.com/PJHarvey

Watch rough fan footage of MGMT performing new material at New York's Guggenheim Museum (via Pitchfork.com)

Florence +The Machine took part in the Creator's Project in New York this autumn, here's a studio tour with the singer, producer Paul Epworth and more.

Friendly Fires have cancelled shows in Nottingham tonight and Newcastle tomorrow as singer Ed MacFarlane has been hit by a viral throat infection. Finger's crossed for Thursday's show in Manchester.
NME.com

Shoes and songs? Sportswear makers Puma team up with singer Ruby Goe. Puma.com.

Finally in case you were wondering which band's songtitle's Chris Packham was sneaking into his latest nature series, Autumnwatch Unsprung is getting a light sprinkling of tracks from The Damned.
bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk

Today's Track Of The Day is Azealia Banks'L8R .

That's it for today. See you tomorrow around noon for more Hot List.

12:00 PM | 14/11/2011