Prog

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The B-Bar can be found at the top of a short flight of stone steps just up from Plymouth harbour in this maritime city’s historical Barbican area. It’s here in this arty venue-slash-comedy club-slash eatery that Haunt The Wood began their very first

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

Guitar Techniques

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✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Moderate Info Key: C Major Tempo: 80bpm https://bit.ly/426nebY Will improve your ✓ Strumming technique ✓ Chord enrichment ✓ Creative use of the capo You normally associate the sound of modern country with Nashville, but The Shires is a

NPR

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Across the country, public radio stations (thankfully) opened their doors again in 2022 and had a busy year producing some great live music sessions. Here are the best of the bunch, featuring studio performances, home recordings and socially-distance

The Independent

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All forms of music have spaces they’re designed to work best in. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has a greater ability to prick the hairs on the back of your neck when you’re sat in the stalls of Royal Festival Hall than if you’re listening on Clas

Scootering

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With their latest single, Let Somebody Lean On You, London-based four-piece, The Sha La La’s, continue to serve up their infectious brand of guitar and Hammond-fuelled blend of Mod ‘n’ Soul. Over the past decade The Sha La La’s have released three al

Prog

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www.progzilla.com/listen/ ON THE DAY Prog speaks to him, session gun and solo artist Ben Reed is re-shelving and re-alphabetising his enormous vinyl collection. He has around 10,000 records, only a few of them on CD, and he doesn’t do digital – he’s

NPR

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This month's playlist includes 10 songs by Slingshot artists: public radio's favorite new musicians of 2018.

Australian Guitar

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Few bands have put out as many consistently interesting and entertaining albums as the Hoodoo Gurus. From their 1984 debut, Stoneage Romeos, up through 2010’s Purity Of Essence and a slew of more recent recordings, including 2021’s “World Of Pain”, t

Guitarist

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Soulful return for the first lady of blues rock “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some style

Classic Rock

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FOUNDED IN 2005 by Philadelphia neighbours Kurt Vile and Adam Granduciel, The War On Drugs have since expanded into a fearsome sextet, updating the classic tenets of heartland rock for a whole new generation. Latest album I Don’t Live Here Anymore –

Guitar Techniques

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Nguyên Lê’s music fuses elements of jazz, rock, world music, hip-hop and funk. Having seen him live, we can confirm he can certainly bring his magic to the stage too. Overseas is his new album that brims with arresting music and spectacular guitar wo

NPR

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Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk over the past decade, this one by British composer Anna Meredith is one of the most exhilarating.

Guitarist

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Soulful return for the first lady of blues rock “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some styl

Bass Player

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Born in Israel in 1970 and living in St. Louis, Missouri as a teenager, Avishai Cohen was introduced to the world of bass by the music of Jaco Pastorius. After studying at the Music and Arts Academy in Jerusalem, he moved to New York City in 1992, wh

AppleMagazine

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Given his prolific and highly acclaimed back catalogue in hip hop, the legendary Nas can be easily excused for spending much of his new release looking back at the good times. There’s a wistful tone to King’s Disease that will chime with many of the

Guitar Player

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A ROSTER OF THE artists signed to the Mascot Label Group reads like a list of the sharpest guitar players around. From Steve Vai to Robben Ford, the level of musicianship is incredible. But one artist on the roster seemed a little more intriguing. Lo

Guitar Player

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AS IF WE needed more evidence that 2020 was the most insanely improbable year ever, the long-separated and bickering brothers Robinson finally locked wings once again, only to have their reunion tour plans shot down by the pandemic. The show finally

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

Guitarist

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9/10 Ethereal, nomadic grooves from Texan trio We live in an amazingly rich time for absorbing all kinds of music from around the world. Yet few bands bring so many disparate elements together in such a beguiling and coherent form as Texas trio Khr

NPR

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NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

Classic Rock

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In August 2015, Rush played the last show of their R40 Live Tour (which turned out to be their final tour) at The Forum in LA. After the dust had settled, back home in Toronto Alex Lifeson played some golf, but soon found himself kicking his heels an

Guitar Techniques

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Redwing Records 9/10 “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried styles and topics I haven’t touched o

Guitar Techniques

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Redwing Records 9/10 “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried styles and topics I haven’t touched o

Stereophile

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Calling himself EOB, songwriter/singer/guitarist Ed O’Brien has released his first solo album after 35 years with Radiohead. Over the decades, bandmates have branched out for high-profile projects—Jonny Greenwood writes film scores and Thom Yorke has

Australian Guitar

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At age 13, Chris Shiflett made a decision that would forever alter the course of his life. He had been playing soccer for two years, but decided to change his career path to music. As a big-haired heavy metal kid, Shiflett idolised Ozzy Osbourne’s le

NPR

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2020 is sure to reveal fantastic music from talented, emerging bands. This list features a diverse celebration of artists who've been here all along, but are only now getting to be heard.

Australian Guitar

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Few bands have captured the hearts of Australia quite the way Busby Marou have. With their emphatic fusion of heart-on-sleeve storytelling and destructively moreish musical prowess – the individual quirks of Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou intertwining to

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

Guitar World

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SOCAL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CREW RIVAL SONS HAVE BEEN KICKING out the jams ever since they formed in 2009. So how, after six albums and a decade-plus in existence, did the four-piece find themselves entering 2021 as one of the forerunners of a new surging mu