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Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 2/7

By Liam Sweeny on February 7, 2025

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Outlaw Music Festival

Music icons Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson will be coming to the Capital Region this summer for the 10^th Outlaw Music Festival. They’ll be hitting the Broadview Stage at SPAC on Saturday, August 2^nd with Wilco, Lucinda Williams and Waylon Payne. On August 10^th, they will be at the Empower Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview in Syracuse with Turnpike Troubadours, The Red Clay Strays and Waylon Payne.

There will be two other New York stops, August 1^st at Jones Beach, Wantagh, and August 8^th at Darien Lake Amphitheater in Buffalo. Tickets go on sale today at 10am through the festival website.

Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy’s last show will be with the Black Sabbath Reunion concert, according to his wife and manager, Sharon Osborne.

“Ozzy didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to his friends, to his fans, and he feels there’s been no full stop,” Sharon told the BBC following the concert announcement. “This is his full stop.”

Birmingham, England will host the reunion concert, as it was the birthplace of the band. It will be an all-day concert, taking place on July 5^th at Villa Park. The show will also feature an Ozzy solo performance, along with performances from Pantera, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Slayer, Gojira and more.

Osbourne has had many health difficulties over the past number of years, and his current struggle with Parkinson’s disease ha rendered his touring life impossible to manage. The reunion concert is his way to definitively say goodbye to fans.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has a new album, called Mayhem, and during the 2025 Grammy’s, she unveiled the latest single, “Abracadabra.” The track and the video were both shown during a commercial break. During the ceremony, she sung a tribute to Los Angeles with Bruno Mars. She also was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Duo/Group Performance.

Mayhem will be out on March 7^th, and will be Lady Gaga’s first release since last year’s Harlequin, which was the companion of Joker: Folie a Deux.

Gaga will next perform at this year’s Coachella.