Guitar World

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“GOSSIP” WORDS AND MUSIC BY DAVID DAMIANO, VICTORIA DE ANGELIS, ETHAN TORCHIO, THOMAS RAGGI, JOE JANIAK, MADISON LOVE AND THOMAS B. MORELLO. COPYRIGHT © 2023 SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING (ITALY) S.R.L., PROMISED LAND MUSIC LTD., ARTIST PUBLISHING GROUP WEST

Goldmine

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During the 1970s, rock concerts began to be broadcast on mainstream radio, and quickly developed a strong following. The King Biscuit Flower Hour was the first to break through, and it ran on Sunday nights for over 20 years, across almost 300 station

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.

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

Total Guitar

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Neo-soul pop hit Happy was released from the soundtrack to the film Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and went on to become the most commercially successful single worldwide the following year with nearly 14 million sales/streams. The upbeat soul/Motown groov

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

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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The influential reggae group, whose name means "black freedom," brought songs of solidarity and love to the Tiny Desk.

Guitar World

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FOUR DECADES AGO, the British new wave band the Fixx were having their moment in the sun. Hooky, slick and multi-textured hits such as “Red Skies,” “Saved by Zero,” “Stand or Fall,” “One Thing Leads to Another” and “Deeper and Deeper” turned the grou

Prog

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The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, the group he formed in 1967 with Vincent Crane (later of Atomic Rooster), are absolutely foundational to the development of progressive rock. The Crazy World spiced up their R’n’Bderived sound with classical and jazz

Goldmine

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On September 15, we lost singer-songwriter and producer Ric Ocasek, a founding member and leader of The Cars. Ric and Benjamin Orr had played in a few Ohio bands before ultimately moving to the Boston scene, which led to The Cars’ self-titled polishe

Prog

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We asked. You voted. In your thousands. Almost 80,000 of you to be precise, by far and away the biggest reader vote this magazine has ever undertaken. So the past month has been a heady whirlwind of names, numbers, quotes, frayed tempers, late nights

UNCUT

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PLUS! THE RHAPSODY WORLD TOUR REVEALED! PAGE 98 EVEN for a band as seasoned as Queen, a new tour presents certain tribulations. For example, as they resume their Rhapsody World Tour – including a 10-date residency at London’s O2 Arena – Brian May, Ro

Australian Guitar

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In a fashion similar to one of Africa's 218 volcanoes, the Zambian ‘garage-psych-prog-funk-afro-rock ensemble’ WITCH erupted in activity in 2012 after lying dormant for nearly 30 years, and later set off on their first world tour. Led by remaining fo

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

The Independent

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In recent years, the music industry has seen a growing trend of very public copyright lawsuits against popular artists. Although Ed Sheeran just won his court battle over his hit 2017 single “Shape of You”, this is not the first time the singer-song

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

Goldmine

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For the past 40 years, East Bay Ray has been playing guitar for the Dead Kennedys, one of the premiere bands and originators of the San Francisco punk scene. Ray sat down with Goldmine to talk about life as the only member of the Dead Kennedys to rem

Australian Guitar

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The group’s name comes from a buzzword promoted by fitness trainers and doctors. Now, Gut Health is causing a buzz of their own beyond Melbourne’s music community, releasing two EPs and three singles in the last 15 months. After playing industry expo

Goldmine

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For decades, the only live documents of Pink Floyd were the first half of 1969’s Ummagumma double LP and — if one attended a midnight movie — the Live at Pompeii film. As superb as both of those are, they showcased Pink Floyd and their music from the

Total Guitar

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Formed in 1982, the LA funk-rock foursome have sold over 120 million records, making them one of the biggest-selling bands of all time. Anthony Kiedis (vocals) and Flea (bass) are founding members, with drummer Chad Smith joining in 1988 and guitaris

UNCUT

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Can you explain how Feorm Falorx evolved from intergalactic music festival to earthbound album? Andy Turner: We played this festival on a planet called Feorm just towards the end of lockdown, and when we got back we thought we would give it to Warp f

Country Life

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IT doesn’t rhyme. It doesn’t sound good when sung either solo or en masse (unless, perhaps, being panted out by Marilyn Monroe). It seldom scans when personalised (unless you have a Christian name of exactly two syllables) and three of its four lines

NPR

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On January 1, more than 400,000 audio recordings made before 1923 are going to enter the public domain. It includes all sorts of gems that haven't been widely heard for generations.

Classic Rock

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Tfirst Jethro Tull studio album for nearly 20 years, The Zealot Gene landed high in our Albums Of 2022 list. Mainman Ian Anderson may be 75, but his talents as a songwriter, flautist and frontman remain undimmed. With the follow-up album done and due

Classic Rock

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OVER THE PAST 13 years and four previous albums, Trucker Diablo have never held back on delivering bullish, anthemic music that gets right in your face. The Northern Irish foursome have now taken this a stage further on new album Tail End Of A Hurric

Total Guitar

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If you’re looking to be a top singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran seems to be the man to beat. Influenced by artists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Eminem and alternative English folk duo Nizlopi, Ed’s material covers a range of traditional and contemporary s

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.

Los Angeles Times

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Dick Dale played electric guitar like he was more interested in the electricity than in the guitar. Listen to the way he starts his signature song, "Misirlou," with the sound of his pick slicing against a quivering string - a power line, basically -

Guitar Techniques

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BACK IN 1978 I witnessed an amazing concert featuring Colosseum II with a young Gary Moore on guitar. It was called a ‘simulcast’, where BBC TV showed the film footage, and BBC radio broadcast the audio simultaneously - hence the name. At the time I