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In celebration of what would have been Phife Dawg‘s 51st birthday, his estate and family officially announced a release date for the posthumous album, Forever. Taking to Instagram to share the news, the late rapper’s estate wrote, “11:15am EST today marks his exact birthdate. Happy Birthday, @phifeforever. Thank you all for your patience. ‘Forever’, the album, drops of 3.22.2022 on Smokin Needles Records/@awal Executive Produced by @djrastaroot on behalf of the family and The Estate of Malik I. Taylor. Please spread the word!! #phifeforever.” Forever was initially set to drop some time in 2020 and was announced during the 5 Foot Assassin’s 50th birthday. “We are excited about the partnership with AWAL for Malik’s posthumous album release,” Phife Dawg’s family said in a previous statement. ...

In celebration of JAY-Z‘s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, some of Hov’s inner circle paid tribute to the hip-hop mogul in a video titled, The Times and Life of Shawn Carter. Beyoncé begins the video reciting one of his most iconic lyrics as Common comes in to finish the bar. The video features, what appears to be a never-ending list of collaborators who have worked with JAY-Z across multiple industries including music and entertainment. Creatives including Rihanna, Diddy, DJ Khaled, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Kevin Hart, Lenny Kravit, Aziz Ansari, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Pharrell, Rick Ross and LeBron James appear in the video in honour of the Brooklyn native by reciting some of their favourite JAY-Z lyrics. The video ends with Hov’s eldest daughter Blue Ivy quoting lyrics fro...

Drake and Future‘s “Life Is Good” has officially been certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The certification means that the single, which is featured on Future’s High Off Life, has sold 10,000,000 units since its release in January 2020. Future’s manager Dwight Elder took to Instagram to show the rapper celebrating the feat with the plaque, which also happened to take place during his 38th birthday. “Life Is Good” features production from the late D. Hill, OZ and Ambezza, and went on to hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its accompanying music video, helmed by Director X, showed Drizzy and Future working a series of regular jobs such as fast food workers, mechanics, IT workers, off-brand Apple Store employees, garbage men, chefs, amateur rappers and a...

MEGADETH drummer Dirk Verbeuren has released a new song from his long-running BENT SEA project. “Destroy The Autocrats”, a collaboration with Omid Torn (BATTLETORN) on vocals and Jesper Liveröd (NASUM) on bass, is the eighth in a series of songs Dirk has dubbed “Instagrind”. A year and a half ago, Verbeuren released the first “Instagrind” song from BENT SEA, “Grind To A Halt”, a collaboration with MIDNIGHT mastermind Athenar on vocals. It was followed by “Sycophant Legions”, a collaboration with FEASTEM‘s Petri Eskelinen on vocals and Jesper Liveröd on bass; “Nothing Blasts Forever”, a collaboration with DRUGS OF FAITH‘s Richard Johnson on vocals; “Quietus”, a collaboration with Tomas Lindberg (...

RATING: 9/10 Since their 2015 debut, “Absolution”, KHEMMIS‘s approach to their brand of melodic doom has been a winning formula. The group has mastered the art of weaving in powerful riffs that straight-up rock amid more forlorn moments of doom metal. The interplay between guitarist Phil Pendergast‘s clean vocals and the more guttural growls of fellow guitarist Ben Hutcherson is an expert class in organic escalation, as the changes in mood are always timed in a sensible and seemingly organic manner that remains palatable without coming off as forced. “Deceiver” is the latest display of the band’s mastery, and while the formula remains mostly unchanged from where the band has gone so far, Pendergast and Hutcherson‘s guitar work fuels the band&...

SHINEDOWN‘s Brent Smith has praised Adele for getting streaming giant Spotify to remove the shuffle button from album pages after the pop superstar commented that the order tracks were placed in was supposed to “tell a story.” As a result of Adele‘s request, the shuffle button — signified by two crisscrossing arrows — is no longer the default option for album listening on Spotify; instead, listeners will hear the tracks in their originally intended order. “This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry!” Adele wrote on Twitter earlier today (Sunday, November 21). “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended....

Joey Jordison (SLIPKNOT), Jeff LaBar (CINDERELLA), Leslie West (MOUNTAIN), Dusty Hill (ZZ TOP), Robby Steinhardt (KANSAS), Alan Lancaster (STATUS QUO), John Lawton (URIAH HEEP) and Ken Hensley (URIAH HEEP) are among the musicians who were included in the “In Memoriam” segment the 2021 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. The event, which was held at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, was taped on October 30 but didn’t air on HBO and stream on HBO Max until yesterday (Saturday, November 20). “In Memoriam”, which also showed images of Charlie Watts (THE ROLLING STONES), Sylvain Sylvain (NEW YORK DOLLS) and Megaforce Records co-founder Marsha Zazula, among many others, ended on Don Everly and a version of THE EVERLY BROTHERS classic “Al...