Australian Guitar

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As one of the few remaining pop-punk bands from the genre’s early-2000s resurgence, Simple Plan maintain their reputation as a stadium-filling musical force in their 25th year of existence. The group first assembled in the FrenchCanadian suburbia of

Guitar World

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Classic Rock

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Formed in 1994 by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody (the latter died six years later) – both members of the Allman Brothers Band – American southern rock jam group Gov’t Mule have carved out a successful career while flying beneath the

Under the Radar

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When hatching plans to celebrate Under the Radar’s 20th anniversary I knew I wanted to go beyond just producing a special 20th anniversary issue. Despite two decades of writing about albums, one thing we’d never done is actually put one out ourselves

Goldmine

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In 1967, The Fifth Estate stormed the Top 40 with “Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which peaked at No.11. Obscured by the fun, novelty-tinged cover of The Wizard of Oz classic was that the band were a versatile and powerful live act. Hailing from the

Newsweek

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It feels like a different universe. In fact it was the summer of 1998: Bill Clinton was testifying in front of a grand jury about an affair with a White House intern, "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica was the biggest song in the country and Arma

Total Guitar

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We love a good pop tune here at TG, and Olivia Rodrigo’s Good 4 U, from her 2021 debut, Sour, definitely counts! The album was conceived as a multi-styled tapestry of songs, taking in mainstream pop, rock, punk, folk and more – and, though Olivia doe

UNCUT

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Stephanie Phillips: “There was a lot of pushing boundaries” How was Decolonise Fest 2022? It was great. It was our first one since before the pandemic, and we didn’t get any funding and relied on donations. But we had great crowds and the bands were

Prog

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“I tend to plough my own furrow. I’m focused on what I’m doing and not comparing it with what other people are doing,” says Maddy Prior as Prog rounds up an afternoon’s talk about her early life and Steeleye Span reaching 50-plus years. And maybe bec

UNCUT

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WRITTEN in a cellar, recorded in a bedsit and released by a start-up independent label run from a record shop in Dudley, the debut single by Brummie reggae quartet UB40 was an instant success story that surprised everyone except the band. “We were co

Goldmine

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Marie Fredriksson, a singer for the Swedish duo Roxette, passed away on December 9, at the age of 61, after a 17-year battle with cancer. From 1989 through 1991, the duo had a half-dozen singles in the U.S. that reached either No. 1 or No. 2, beginni

Prog

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Even at the height of the first wave of prog rock, Van der Graaf Generator were a breed apart. Driven by Peter Hammill’s idiosyncratic songwriting, Hugh Banton’s expressive and expansive organ playing and Guy Evans’s declamatory drumming, there was d

Classic Rock

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“He was up for anything, Bon. His nickname was ‘Ronnie Roadtest’, a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, rootin’, tootin’ rock’n’roll soldier. That was his public image. It was true of him too. But at the same time he’d be the guy going round in the morning

Guitar Techniques

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Radiohead made a huge impact on music in the latter years of the 20th century and into the 21st. Along with bands like U2 and REM, they recorded some of the most classic songs in recent memory. Formed in Oxfordshire, England in the mid 1980s by schoo

Classic Rock

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IT WAS 2002’S sizzling Live At The Wetlands album that introduced a young Robert Randolph And The Family Band to the world. Since then the pedal-steel guitarist and singer has spent most of his adult life on the road. Earning his spurs through gospel

NPR

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In the summer of 1997, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood sat down with NPR to talk about their new album OK Computer, just as everything was about to change for the band.

Guitar World

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“THERE ARE TRADITIONS in the world that musicians are aware of — the power of music can do certain kinds of things. You can change somebody’s life. A lot of people have experimented with that, want to know what it is, but a lot of it is kept secret.

Cowboys & Indians

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Award-winning singer-songwriter Carsen Gray calls an archipelago just 50 miles off the coast of mainland British Columbia home. A peaceful place, virtually removed from the rest of the world, it’s where Gray translates her Haida heritage and her natu

Reader's Digest UK

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MY EARLIEST MEMORY WAS THE SONG “NOW IS THE HOUR”, which was a big hit for Vera Lynn shortly after the war. Bing Crosby recorded that in the Fifties, and that might have been the version that I heard, because a lot of big singers at the time recorded

Marie Claire Australia

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The last time I saw you was just before the Queen concert at the end of February 2020, just before Covid shut everything down. That show was incredible. The energy in the audience was amazing, and their energy charged us up. It was one of my favourit

Goldmine

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Maintaining a career that spans the better part of 60 years is unusual enough in the music world, but when the bulk of that career is spent married to your personal and professional partner, suffice it to say it could be considered something of an an

The Independent

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The Thrills had been delighted to go for dinner with Morrissey. It was on a hazy afternoon two decades ago that the young Dublin band met with their celebrity fan at the Pig ’n Whistle on Hollywood Boulevard, a famed expat hangout in Los Angeles. It

Classic Rock

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Guns N’ Roses have nothing on Dawn After Dark – the 17-year gap that preceded Chinese Democracy pales next to the more than 30 years it has taken the British rockers to release their debut album, New Dawn Rising. The Birmingham-based band were part o

UNCUT

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LEROY “Lonnie” Jordan is outlining the War manifesto. “Our choice of weapon was our instruments, shooting out rhythm, melody and harmony,” says the band’s singer and keyboardist. “That was our motto. We were called War, but we were all about keeping

MAXIM New Zealand

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This was the final piece of the puzzle which we made to set the tone for everything to come and draw the listener in for “Club Called Heaven”. In 2018 we had the privilege to play the notorious Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross London. The crowd took

Classic Rock

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Back in the early 2000s, H.e.a.t were a bunch of kids in Upplands Vasby, Sweden, dreaming of being somewhere else. Somewhere with palm trees instead of snow, where Def Leppard and Iron Maiden ruled instead of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. S

Evening Standard

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Over the course of the last decade or so, Ed Sheeran went from a gigging Suffolk teenager with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal, to someone who’s played in front of the Queen, sold out arenas around the world and, by most measures, become one of t

NPR

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Trumpeter Hugh Masekela and producer Stewart Levine organized the 1974 festival and produced the new album Zaire 74: The African Artists, which captures performances by Miriam Makeba, Franco and more.

Prog

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The myth that punk killed prog has been conclusively laid to rest over the last decade. However, in 2009 when Prog launched, the scene was not nearly as vibrant as now, and many bands had endured rather than thrived since the 70s heyday of progressiv

Australian Guitar

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The Mark Of Cain emerged from a relatively isolated city whose music scene, in the mid ‘80s, had already birthed punk acts like The Exploding White Mice and Perdition. A decade prior Adelaide had experienced the glory days of their most popular music