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The Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert, which will feature performances by Kanye West and Drake, is officially set to take place on December 9 at the LA Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. A press release states that the historic event will mark Ye’s first headlining live stadium performance in five years and aims “to raise awareness and support for Larry Hoover and the cause of prison and sentencing reform.” The benefit concert also names Drake as a special guest as the two artists recently squashed their years-long beef. “I believe this event will not only bring awareness to our cause but prove to people everywhere how much more we can accomplish when we lay our pride aside and come together,” West said in a statement. Larry Hoover, Jr. also shared a few words: “BRINGING THESE TWO GREAT ...

Guinean artist BaKaRi Bombo has released an all-new music video titled “Demon,” which tracks the Brooklyn-bred rapper on a journey of self reflection through the city. Directed by THIRDEYERAZ, BaKaRi embodies a visceral energy over drowned out drum kicks and 808s, channeling his new spirit as he travels through a space time continuum. BaKaRi is no stranger to traveling fast and often though, as he spent most of his childhood, in a military family, moving around from different states in the U.S. (Brooklyn, Chicago, Texas, Ohio) to back and fourth between there and living with his family in his native land of Guinée, Conakry in West Africa. Making his return from an almost year long hiatus from music as a buzzing artist who’s seen a lot already in his journey, from moving often to suffe...

Silk Sonic, the powerduo of Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars, is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 2 with An Evening With Silk Sonic. The Bootsy Collins-hosted debut album earned a total of 104,000 equivalent album units, including 60,000 in streaming equivalent album units (82.6 million on-demand streams of the album’s nine tracks), 42,000 in album sales and 2,000 in track equivalent album units. An Evening With Silk Sonic marks .Paak’s highest-charting album so far and the fourth top 10 entry for Mars, with his previous three albums hitting the top three. Other new entries in this week’s top 10 are Taylor Swift with her new version of Red at No. 1, K-pop group TWICE’s Formula of Love: O+T=<3 at No. 3 and Jason Aldean’s Macon at No. 8. Elsewhere on the chart, Summer Walker moves do...

Spotify has removed the option to shuffle songs on an album as the default setting so that users can hear the songs in the order the artist intended. The move was apparently inspired by Adele, who recently released her album 30 on the streaming service. In a tweet on Saturday, Adele said removing the shuffle button “was the only request I had in our ever-changing industry.” “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason,” she wrote. “Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended.” This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! 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. Thank ...

In a brand new interview with the “Iron City Rocks” podcast, legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen spoke about the recording process for his latest album, “Parabellum”, while the coronavirus pandemic was in full swing. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “The whole thing is very surreal. Because in an estimated hundred thousand years of human civilization, this has never happened before. There’s been many, many, many, many pandemics — I mean, countless: the European plague and the 1918 [flu pandemic] and whatever — but there never, ever has been a situation where every event, every… At one point, even restaurants were closed. That never happened before; this is the first time in human history, as long as humans have existed. So, obviousl...