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Following endless speculation and undeniable skepticism, Black Sabbath have released “God is Dead” from new album 13, which comes out June 11. And it’s not a three-minute radio single. The track is an eight-minutes-fifty-one-second long epic that starts with an ominous undistorted guitar arpeggio and delicate drumming before bursting into a thunderclaps of power chords and tumbling drums.

With the first big bang out of the way, the song dips back down again and Ozzy Osbourne slowly starts to sing: “Lost in the darkness/ I fade from the light/ Faith of my father, my brother, my Maker and Savior/ Help me make it through the night.”

Daft Punk’s highly anticipated new single, “Get Lucky,” made its way to earth Friday, premiering around the world at 12:01am EST.

The buzz surrounding the arrival of the French dance duo’s new album, Random Access Memories, is reaching fever pitch, and the fact that it’s been eight years since the release of their last full-length studio album, Human After All, is adding fire to the fuel.

If “Get Lucky” is any indication, it’s bound to be a joyous romp filled with the band’s trademark electronic beats and vocoder-enhanced vocals laid neatly over a foundation of funky grooves and danceable rhythms.

He was once as crazy as they came. In the '70s, Iggy Pop encouraged crowds to throw bottles at him, rolled around in broken glass, and smeared himself with peanut butter in concert. These days he's less unpredictable and his shock shtick has been upstaged by artists like Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. But at least least Iggy Pop hasn’t lost his sense of humor.

In an new comedic video to promote the new Stooges album Ready to Die (out April 30 on Fat Possum), Pop is depicted surrounded by beautiful women at a posh pool, complaining on the phone about being on a major label and "losing touch with the common man." After insisting that his manager find him a new label he says, "I have got to get off this major-label system before it kills me. I don’t care about the money. Where’s my integrity?"

People who complained about the attention Jay-Z's recent trip to Cuba received may have to reconsider their stance.

The rapper-businessman is among seven cover subjects for Time magazine's tenth-annual "100 Most Influential People In The World" issue.

On its website, Time writes of Jay-Z that his "journey from hip-hop artist to powerful entrepreneur symbolizes, according to Michael Bloomberg, the American Dream narrative."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote the special profile on Jay-Z for the issue.

Jay-Z is among the best-selling rap artists of all time and has been a successful businessman since the 1990s, excelling as a record company executive, clothing magnate, pitchman, minority owner of the Brooklyn Nets and, most recently, a sports agent, among other endeavors.