Ozzy Osbourne will begin work on his next studio album this fall, according to a bulletin at the singer's MySpace page. Osbourne plans to get down to business shortly after his concert appearances at the Monsters of Rock show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada this Saturday (July 26th) and his own Ozzfest 2008 in Dallas on Saturday, August 9th. The new disc will follow up 2007's Black Rain, which has sold more than 500,000 copies in the U.S. and was Osbourne's first all-new studio recording in six years.

Meanwhile, according to AntiMusic.com, Ozzy's wife and manager Sharon Osbourne revealed in an interview with a Philadelphia radio station that Ozzfest will return next year as a full-length tour instead of just a one-off date. Sharon also apparently indicated that she would love to have AC/DC as headliners on the tour.

Ozzfest was reduced to just the Dallas date this year after 2007's experimental tour, for which admission was free.

In other news, the Osbourne family is slated to return to television this fall in a new "reality variety" series on Fox tentatively titled The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous. Fox has ordered six episodes of the one-hour series, which will be the family's first foray into TV since their MTV reality show, The Osbournes, became a pop culture phenomenon several years ago.

The new series will feature musical performances, comedy sketches, and game-show competitions.
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Motley Crue will perform a free online concert from the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas on Friday, August 1st. The live event will be available to anyone with broadband Internet access from DeepRockDrive.com, officially launching a series of partnerships with well-known live venues to present concerts to a global audience through the Web. Disturbed played a similar type of event in late May for DeepRockDrive.com, which bills itself as "the world's most popular destination for online, interactive concerts."

Each show at the site features interaction between viewers and the artists, with fans having the ability to send messages to the stage, make song requests, choose camera angles and even create digital applause in real time.

Motley Crue will hit the stage at 9:30 p.m. PT.

The Crue's new album, Saints of Los Angeles, has sold 150,000 copies in the U.S. since its June 24th release.

The band is currently headlining the first Crue Fest, a festival-style tour also featuring Buckcherry, Papa Roach and others. The tour pulls into Selma, Texas on Wednesday (July 23rd).
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Foo Fighters will release a greatest hits package in November, according to a representative for the band's management. No details on the track listing are yet available, but the set is likely to include songs from all six of the band's studio albums, including last year's Grammy-winning Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. There is also no word yet on whether the collection will feature a DVD component or additional bonus features.

Meanwhile, the band is in the midst of a summer tour that stops on Wednesday (July 23rd) in Indianapolis and will wrap up in late September with two shows in Las Vegas. While a new studio album is certainly on the group's radar, frontman Dave Grohl told us he has no idea yet what direction it will take: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "The best thing about being in this band is that I don't know what we're gonna do next. We actually sat around and talked about how we're gonna make the next record, and I don't know when we're gonna make it, but we're already trying to figure it out. And I have no idea what it's gonna sound like. That's why I love being in this band, because who knows what's gonna happen."

Foo Fighters won Grammy Awards earlier this year for Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance.

The band has been on a very successful world tour since last fall, which included two recent sold-out dates at London's Wembley Stadium. The shows sold a total of 165,000 tickets to become both the biggest performances of the band's 13-year career and the largest shows yet staged at the historic stadium.

Foo Fighters also participated in the recent VH1 Rock Honors tribute to the Who, which was taped earlier this month and premiered last week.

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace has sold 770,000 copies since coming out last fall. The set's latest single is called "Let It Die."
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