MOVIE BASED ON OZZY'S MEMOIR COMING?

Ozzy Osbourne's recently published memoir, I Am Ozzy, will be on its way to the big screen next year if Ozzy's wife and manager Sharon has her way. Talking to People magazine, Sharon said, "Next year I want to work on a movie for Ozzy. He's had offers for his book. That lady from An Education could play me -- she's fabulous!" The "lady" that Sharon refers to is British actress Carey Mulligan, who was nominated for an Oscar for her starring role as a young schoolgirl seduced by an older man in that independent drama.

Sharon added that talks are already underway to bring Ozzy's best-selling autobiography to the screen.

Johnny Depp has been mentioned in the past as a possible contender to play Ozzy.

Meanwhile, Sharon and daughter Kelly are working on a new TV show called Osbourne Family Values. After two TV ventures, The Osbournes and the short-lived Osbournes Reloaded, Ozzy himself says he's had enough of TV: "I gotta be honest, I'm not really keen on TV. I mean, I must have watched, like, two episodes of The Osbournes. I just don't like watching myself on TV, I feel geeky."

Ozzy is working on a new album, his first since 2007's Black Rain, which he plans to release this summer. He's also slated to hit the road with a new version of his annual Ozzfest tour, which was put on ice last year.

AUDIO: OZZY OSBOURNE DOESN'T LIKE SEEING HIMSELF ON TV

ROCK QUICK HITS

Green Day will launch a headlining summer tour of North America at the beginning of August, with AFI along as support. Only one show has been confirmed so far, on August 3rd at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey. Complete dates and cities are expected to be revealed soon. Green Day is touring behind last year's album, 21st Century Breakdown. (FMQB)

Papa Roach has begun streaming a teaser for the band's upcoming live album at their official website, www.paparoach.com. The set will feature performances recorded on their recent tour with Shinedown along with five brand new studio tracks. A summer arrival for the album is planned. (Tunelab Music)

Courtney Love has posted an apology to former friend and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan on her Facebook page, most likely in response to Corgan's recent comments that he would not allow songs he wrote with Love to come out on the new Hole album. Love wrote in part, "Dearest Billy: I love you, I love your strong and eternal heart . . . We have again created beauty from the agony between us, all the buried and unburied anguish, all that is true, that is gold, that is meant to be is within this endless and somehow eternal cycle of Billy & Courtney.I hope you will take my sincerest apologies for all the thousand ways I sometimes offend you, because I know you are a king, a prince, and my beautiful noble boy." (The Daily Swarm)

The date and lineup for Kansas City, Missouri's Rockfest have been announced. The show will take place on May 15th at Liberty Memorial and will feature main stage performers Godsmack, Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Seether, Drowning Pool, Rev Theory and Halestorm. The second stage bill will include Five Finger Death Punch, Airbourne, Janus, The Veer Union, Burn Halo, Adelitas Way, Shaman's Harvest and Taddy Porter. Tickets go on sale Wednesday (March 17th) and start at just $35. (Tunelab Music)

SCOTT WEILAND TALKS GETTING MASSAGE WHILE WIFE WAS IN LABOR

Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland defends getting a massage while his ex-wife was in labor in his new interview with Details magazine. The incident was first mentioned in his ex-wife Mary Forsberg's book, Fall To Pieces: A Memoir Of Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll & Mental Illness, which was published last fall. Asked about what he was thinking at the time, Weiland replies, "I was incredibly stressed-out. She was having contractions and that was tripping me out, so I called up our friend and she gave me a massage. I laid out right next to where Mary was."

A nurse eventually kicked the masseuse out, but Weiland maintains there was nothing weird about it: "No one I've ever talked to thought (the massage) was weird. It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child. And I was sober at that time, so I needed something to take the edge off."

Weiland's Details interview, as reported on Tuesday (March 16th), also discusses the upcoming album from Stone Temple Pilots, his history with drugs and his departure from rock supergroup Velvet Revolver.

Weiland and Forsberg were married in 2000 and separated in 2007. They have a 10-year-old son named Noah and an eight-year-old daughter named Lucy.

DAUGHTRY BRINGS 'LIVES SETS' TO FANS THIS WEEK

Daughtry plans to brings its concert straight to you tomorrow (Thursday, March 18th). The group will take part in Sony's "Live Sets" by streaming its Baltimore, Maryland gig live online via various websites, including DaughtryOfficial.com, facebook.com/Daughtry and Crackle.com.

The "Live Sets" performance is the first show of the second leg of Daughtry's arena tour. The band will perform songs from its self-titled debut and the follow up, Leave This Town. Daughtry tells us that devising a set-list is more fun now that the band has a second album: "It's gonna be a lot easier to design a set list now because we have options. We get to pick the bets of both records and make a show out of it."

Daughtry and the Goo Goo Dolls will perform at White River State Park in Indianapolis as part of this year's Final Four tournament.. Both groups will play during the three-day free musical festival, dubbed The Big Dance, which takes place during the 2010 NCAA Men's Final Four, set for April 2nd - 4th.

AUDIO: CHRIS DAUGHTRY ON SET LIST

DEFTONES COME BACK WITH 'DIAMOND EYES'

Deftones have issued the title track from their upcoming album, Diamond Eyes, as the first official single from the May 18th release. The CD will be the first from the group since bassist Chi Cheng was left in a semi-comatose state by a November 2008 car crash, with longtime Deftones friend Sergio Vega currently playing bass with the band.

Although Deftones had already been at work on another record -- with Cheng -- before the accident, singer Chino Moreno told us that the band almost immediately started writing new music when they first got back together: "We probably reconvened about four or five months after Chi's accident, in our rehearsal spot, and before we even got a chance to really talk about, you know, what we wanted to do, if we wanted to, you know, finish up the record that we were working on, or continue as a band or whatever, I mean, everybody just gravitated toward their instruments and started playing. And it just felt like the most natural thing to just dive into the music, and from that day on pretty much we did exactly that. We started writing and a couple of months into it, we had a whole new record's worth of material."

The record that the band made with Cheng, called Eros, remains "in the vault," according to Moreno, and will be released "when the time is right."

Cheng remains in a semi-conscious state at home in Sacramento, California. He does not speak, but sleeps, opens his eyes and sometimes moves his limbs.

Cheng's insurance company dropped him just a few months after the accident, so his family has been depending on donations and proceeds from several benefit concerts and auctions to pay his medical bills.

Deftones will head out on scattered live dates in late April and May, including a May 22nd appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio.

AUDIO: CHINO MORENO ON WRITING THE NEW DEFTONES ALBUM

DISTURBED, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, STONE SOUR TAPPED FOR NEW TOUR?

Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold and Stone Sour are the big names tapped to lead a new summer package called the Uproar Tour, according to the Toronto Sun. The newspaper's concert listings indicate that the tour, which has not been officially announced yet, has booked an August 24th stop at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto. No other dates have surfaced, although a website for the trek -- which is, like the annual Mayhem Tour, sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink -- is now online.

Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan recently hinted at big tour plans this year for the band, which will issue its fifth studio album this summer: "I'm not sure what I could say just yet as far as which tours. We are mapping out pretty much a good, solid year of touring ahead of us. So I can probably say that we'll be on, you know, we plan on hitting the road probably sometime in August. There's big stuff in the works. I think we're just trying to see if some of the bands that we're wanting to pair up with are on the same time frame as we are."

Disturbed has been recording its new album since February in its hometown of Chicago. A release date and title have yet to be announced.

Stone Sour and Avenged Sevenfold are also both recording new projects in time for a summer release.

An official schedule and lineup -- including more bands -- for the Uproar Tour is likely to be announced in the next few weeks.

AUDIO: DAN DONEGAN ON DISTURBED'S 2010 TOUR PLANS

GWEN STEFANI: 'IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LIKE THIS FOREVER'

Gwen Stefani has a life plan if she ever decides to leave the music industry. The No Doubt singer says it's her fashion line, telling In Style magazine, "I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: It's not going to be like this forever. So I wanted to continue having something creative to do."

Stefani always had dreams of being a fashion designer, saying, "I made so many clothes growing up, and I used to do my own costumes -- all I would do was just daydream about what I was going to make."

Meanwhile, from the sound of it, Stefani isn't ruling out having a third child. She already has two boys, so who will get her hand-me-down clothes? Speculating on whether she'll have another kid, Stefani said, "I don't know. I'm not focusing on it right now, but it's not up to me anyway, you know? These things are miracles, so we'll see. Otherwise, the clothes are probably going to go to some girlfriend of Kingston's."

Stefani has been working with No Doubt on a new album.

KORN HEADING BACK TO SMALL VENUES ON 'JAGERMEISTER' TREK

Korn will headline this spring's edition of the Jagermeister Music Tour, scheduled to kick off on May 2nd in South Carolina and hit over 25 venues before closing out on June 2nd in Lubbock, Texas. Up-and-coming band 2 Cents, plus comedian Big Jay Oakerson and locally selected acts will round out the bill for Jagermeister's 16th tour. Korn will be on the road in support of its ninth studio album, Korn III - Remember Who You Are, which is due out this summer.

The tour will find Korn hitting ballrooms and large clubs for the first time in years, with all the venues featuring open floors.

The band will also headline the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour this summer with Rob Zombie.

Korn has not yet announced a release date or label for the new album, although we hear the band is close to signing a new deal with a "major" independent label.

Korn has recorded the new disc with producer Ross Robinson, who was behind the board for their 1994 debut and 1996's Life Is Peachy.

Opening act 2 Cents is touring behind its new effort, Dress To Kill, which features the single "Get What."

Confirmed Korn tour dates (subject to change):
May 2 - North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
May 3 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore Ballroom
May 6 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
May 7 - Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Ballroom
May 8 - Lewiston, ME - Androscoggin Bank Colisee
May 10 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom
May 12 - Scranton, PA - Scranton Cultural Centre Ballroom
May 15 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
May 26 - Grand Island, NE - Heartland Events Center
May 29 - San Antonio, TX - Sunken Gardens Amphitheatre
May 30 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
June 1 - Laredo, TX - Laredo Entertainment Center
June 2 - Lubbock, TX - The Pavilion

WHITE STRIPES WILL RETURN, SAYS DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

The director of the new documentary The White Stripes -- Under Great White Northern Lights says that the duo will return to performing "sooner rather than later," despite being virtually inactive for almost three years. Filmmaker Emmett Malloy, who chronicled the band's 2007 Canadian tour -- their last to date -- for the movie, told BBC 6 Music that he was "confident" Jack and Meg White would record and play live again, saying, "I just can't imagine that band not doing more records and doing more shows . . . They just probably needed a break like everybody does. I foresee them doing some shows together sooner than later."

Malloy says that the Whites were both "emotionally and physically exhausted" after the Canadian trek, during which they visited every province and territory in the country no matter how remote.

The Stripes have not recorded a new album since that year's Icky Thump. Drummer Meg White, whose onslaught of anxiety attacks canceled further touring in late 2007, has remained mostly out of sight, while Jack has recorded and toured with the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather while also launching his own record label, studio and store.

Jack White has hinted in various interviews that the Stripes will return, but has not set a timetable for it.

Under Great White Northern Lights arrived on CD and DVD on Tuesday (March 16th), both as separate items and also as part of a deluxe box set.