Exactly six months ago, we learned that Black Sabbath’s original lineup — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward — were getting back together for one last show. It would be their first performance in over eight years and first with Ward in nearly 20. The Black Sabbath finale would double as a farewell concert for Osbourne, who retired from touring three years ago while dealing with serious health problems including Parkinson’s disease, and it would really be more like a day-long festival featuring some of the biggest names in heavy music leading up to the main event. Today at Villa Park in the group’s hometown of Birmingham, UK, the big event finally happened.

Black Sabbath are playing their final show today at the Back To The Beginning festival, and all the bands are paying tribute to them during their sets. In addition to Tool covering “Hand Of Doom,” Slayer did a Sabbath song, Metallica performed two, and Guns N’ Roses tackled four.

It’s screamo summer. Last year Febuary (Editor’s note: It is spelled Febuary, not February, which I just realized after posting this. Emo bands always have to do this shit, but I love them for it) kicked ass with their eponymous debut album, whose amazing track “No Way…” was an instant emo classic. The Las Vegas four-piece is back today to intensify your Fourth of July hangover anxiety with some fresh, merciless rippers.

Black Sabbath’s farewell concert is happening now at the Birmingham festival Back To The Beginning. The four original members are doing one last performance together, and bands are paying homage to the metal veterans with covers. It’ll also be Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance. Judas Priest tackled “War Pigs” ahead of the show, and today Tool played “Hand Of Doom” at the festival.

Well, they made it to at least one show. Oasis took the stage together tonight for the first time in nearly 16 years, performing at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, making this July 4 arguably an even bigger national holiday in the UK than in the US.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

Welcome Strawberry will release their new album Desperate Flower at the end of the month, and I already have a feeling it’s gonna be soundtracking a lot of my beach days this summer. So far the Oakland dream pop/shoegaze band have shared “Violets & Honey” and the lead single “Memory Cube,” the latter of which we named one of the Best Songs Of The Week. Today Welcome Strawberry are sharing Desperate Flower‘s final single, which just so happens to be its title track and is also quite good. It has a nice melodic jangle inspired by bands like Apples In Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, but with a whole lot of guitar feedback and reverb. And at nearly five minutes long, it can easily put you in a very pleasant trance if you let it. Check out “Desperate Flower” below.

Everyone loves to cover Lana Del Rey: Clairo, Primal Scream, Fontaines D.C., Loren Kramar, Drop Nineteens, to name some examples. Now Mallrat is celebrating the Fourth Of July by sharing a sped-up, minimalistic rendition of the Born To Die gem “Radio.”

The Brooklyn Mirage mess continues: The East Williamsburg music venue was set to reopen May 1 after months of renovations, but things aren’t going as planned. After many canceled weekends of shows, Josh Wyatt, the CEO of Avant Gardner, parted ways with the company. Now, several July shows have been canceled.