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

Total Guitar

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The third single (released St Patrick’s Day 2017) from Sheeran’s triumphant third album ÷, Galway Girl features a heavy Celtic influence – the result of a collaboration with Irish folk band Beoga, who co-wrote the song. The song was huge worldwide hi

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

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

Future Music

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Hard house as a genre emerged in the mid 1990s, primarily from London gay clubs initially, before spreading further afield. But, to tread into uncharacteristically philosophical territory, what exactly distinguishes hard house the genre from other ho

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

Global Voices

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"Jamaica has lost the rhythm and soul of a prolific music icon who has inspired many. Perry was one of the most important creative figures to come out of Jamaica."

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

New Zealand Listener

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New Zealanders don’t tend to be the best folk at cinematically celebrating their own people who have been important to shaping the country’s culture and identity. One could put it down to the example shown by Sir Edmund Hillary, in the days when you

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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2014 began with a Frozen streak, included some stumbles (U2 and Apple, we're looking at you) and closed with an R&B revelation.

The Guardian

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In late October, invaluable pieces of rock’n’roll memorabilia began littering Parramatta Road in Sydney’s inner-west suburb of Annandale. Like unwanted detritus, pieces of history from the Annandale Hotel – an establishment famed for nurturing gritty

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

Guitar World

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Q: SKID ROW’S SCOTTI HILL ON ACE FREHLEY “When I talk about Ace, people need to understand that this guy was one of the earliest influences — out of anybody — for me. Before I was a guitar player, I was Ace Frehley for Halloween, so he was on my rada

Music Tech Magazine

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Ørjan Nilsen is a Norwegian producer and DJ best known for his driving and anthemic trance sound and his breakthrough tracks in 2005 and 2006 for Armada Music under his DJ Governor alias. A successful debut solo album came in 2011 before a whole host

Stereophile

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Louis Lemire, president of Moon by Simaudio, passed away in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, on Thursday, September 23, after a short illness. He was 55. He is survived by his wife, Annie Bobeil; his daughter, Maude Auger-Lemire (Peterson Chatelier); and his

The Independent

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The 2022 American Music Awards were held live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday (20 November). The ceremony was hosted by American TV personality Wayne Brady. Taylor Swift was the biggest winner of the night with six wins, including

Electronic Musician

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After debuting on Derrick May's epic Transmat compilation Techno 2: The Next Generation with the lush-sounding single I Believe (1988), Lenny and Lawrence Burden grasped the nettle and started their own 430 West label. Frequently assisted by brothers

Future Music

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If you asked 100 music fans to name a grime artist, we’d hazard a guess that almost all would name an MC. The vocalist is the public face of the sound, but the genre is underpinned by a sprawling, web of players supporting the figureheads: DJs, produ

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

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

Australian HiFi

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Hugh Dean has been manufacturing amplifiers in Melbourne for more than 20 years. He owns a company called Aspen Amplifiers. His Maya and Saksa solid-state power units were marketed as ‘bespoke’ units in Australia and overseas. His current products ca

Foxtel Magazine

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MTV EMAs 2022 LIVE Monday November 14 at 7am on MTV [122] In 1994, the inaugural MTV Europe Music Awards – or EMAs as they’re better known – broke boundaries as the ceremony was broadcast from in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. This month,

Classic Rock

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It’s December 10, 2002, and The Darkness are supporting indie hopefuls The Libertines at a Christmas party organised by London radio station Xfm. They’re half a year away from releasing Permission To Land, the album that will catapult them towards st

UNCUT

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Email letters@uncut.co.uk. Or tweet us at twitter.com/uncutmagazine I was living on Fulwood Road in Sheffield at the time and my friend Charlie lived round the corner up by Ranmoor Church. One day, Charlie gave me a call to see If I fancied going dow

UNCUT

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Email letters@uncut.co.uk. Or tweet us at twitter.com/uncutmagazine I was living on Fulwood Road in Sheffield at the time and my friend Charlie lived round the corner up by Ranmoor Church. One day, Charlie gave me a call to see If I fancied going dow

Country Life

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THE date was set for Thursday, April 26, 1973. The invitations arrived in the form of a first-class Great Western Railway ticket. The ticket was clipped on boarding the train, known back in the day as a ‘football special’—a Pullman hired specifically

Evening Standard

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If you’re even remotely into London’s clubbing scene, it’s likely that you’ll have noticed a fresh new strain of dance music pounding across the capital over the last few years. A bit like bog standard house music if it wasn’t in such a hurry all the

Evening Standard

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When we become plagued with thoughts about the meaning of life and our time here on earth, many of us turn to music for the answer. What we can’t comprehend or communicate in words, we can feel through the universal language of swirling symphonies, d

Prog

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This reader thinks they’re a great thing. In 2016 Andy Tillison asked The Tangent Facebook group if anyone out there would be interested in hosting a house concert. My wife and I live in a bungalow in Stretham, a village near Ely (it’s where Pink Flo