Australian Guitar

4 min read

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

Reader's Digest UK

6 min read

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

frankie Magazine

2 min read

Because You Loved Me – Celine Dion I was about nine years old when I first heard this song; it was on a Grammy-winner compilation CD my dad had, and I always skipped to it. I reconnected with it over the last couple of years. Production-wise, it sits

New Zealand Listener

6 min read

To those who’ve come late to Reb Fountain, her 2021 Taite Music Prize award may seem something of an overnight success story. Yet it reflects decades of graft and struggle – and tragedy. The coveted sculptural chunk of steel – “it’s so heavy” – follo

Prog

7 min read

It’s Friday July 17, 2009. David Longdon’s at Aubitt Studios, and he’s putting his heart and soul into this session. It’s just the way he does things. He’s come down from Shrewsbury to Southampton for two days’ work for Big Big Train, this modestly s

Total Guitar

2 min read

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

You South Africa

2 min read

The group who brought us the hits Indigo Girl, Letters and Shine on Me have released a new album, Elephant in the Room. It’s their seventh studio album and follows their 2018 release, Harbour. We caught up with frontman Craig Hinds to find out more.

NPR

1 min read

Tamino possesses one of the most remarkable and memorable voices to ever grace the Tiny Desk.

FHM US

5 min read

From Halifax to Hollywood Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in February 1991 in Halifax, England. His parents, both working for an art consultancy at the time, also had an older son. Constantly being surrounded by art and creatives, Sheeran took an

Independent on Saturday

2 min read

Durban music lovers can look forward to an incredible line-up of top local, South African and international musicians as the Parklive Music Festival returns to the city’s Botanic Gardens on August 27. Headlining the bill is JP Cooper from the UK, bac

UNCUT

25 min read

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

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

1 min read

Q+A What’s your first memory of performing in front of people? At primary school, my best friend and I choreographed dance routines to Robbie Williams, the Spice Girls and S Club 7, then performed them as a busking routine at our school fair. We we

DIVA

3 min read

You may well already be a fan of sensational, married lesbian folk duo, O’Hooley & Tidow, AKA Heidi Tidow and Belinda O’Hooley. The Yorkshireraised couple became bonafide legends when they sang the iconic Gentleman Jack theme tune. Inspired by real l

Weekend Argus Saturday

3 min read

The band GoodLuck has emerged from a two-year hiatus with their first Afro-tech-inspired collab with Frigid Armadillo on the track Goodbye My Friend. Described as a “captivating journey through emotive soundscapes”, blending Afrobeats and a lyrical

UNCUT

3 min read

HOW did a nice boy from Canada end up in the Pink Fairies? I was playing part-time in a strip club in Vancouver. A friend from high school wrote to me from England telling me to come over to London. He was living with a band called the Deviants abov

Weekend Argus Saturday

1 min read

This week we feature South African funk, pop and R&B duo Easy Freak. Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick studied jazz at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and as a result of their passion for performing, founded Easy Freak. The duo write and produce all their

Prog

2 min read

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon Where’s home? Sunny Swindon. Your earliest prog memory? Hearing 10cc’s I’m Mandy Fly Me on the radio, around 1976. I was 10 years old. It was the

What Hi-Fi?

3 min read

Although spatial audio for movies and TV is still an Apple device exclusive, the firm’s Apple Music proposition is definitely not limited to its AirPods or Beats headphones. Apple Music’s Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio tech for music works with an

Prog

2 min read

The follow-up to Alone In The Universe. Guess what it sounds like? There’s something incredibly comforting about the Electric Light Orchestra. For the middle-aged among us, they’re one of those bands who have always been there, despite all the person

Classic Rock

7 min read

BLUDGEON RIFFOLA The best rock album of 2022 is also the best Def Leppard album since 1992. They’ve made other strong records in the 30 years since Adrenalize, but with Diamond Star Halos they’re thinking big, and also thinking outside the box. Their

Pianist

5 min read

A typical day always begins the same way: strong Italian coffee! I’m not really a morning person, so a caffeine hit first thing is essential. My recording studio at home also serves as an office, so once I’ve opened up the studio and had some Weetabi

UNCUT

8 min read

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

Beat English

2 min read

LISTEN IN! WHERE AND HOW YOU WANT! The BEHIND THE BEAT Podcast is home on all popular platforms: www.beat.de/podcast Can it still be done? To make music just for the sheer joy of playing and composing? To invest next to nothing into PR and only a min

UNCUT

4 min read

WELCOME to this month’s free 15-track CD – exclusively curated for Uncut by Lankum. The band developed in Dublin’s traditional music clubs, but have long tapped into wider international networks of punk, drone, electronica and black metal. They’ve no

You South Africa

2 min read

Fans can expect to hear all the hits that made Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of A-ha one of the biggest bands of the ’80s and early ’90s, such as The Sun Always Shines on TV and Take on Me. We caught up with songwriter and g

FHM Australia

6 min read

Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

Total Guitar

4 min read

The images emblazoned in pop-culture’s memory of Jimmy Page in his pomp are electric. The dragon-embroidered bell-bottoms and 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. The double-necked EDS-1275. The Telecaster and the violin bow. But just as Page changed elect

BBC Music Magazine

3 min read

Californian-born soprano Angel Blue plays piano, bass guitar and (badly, she says) alto saxophone, but she’s quickly established a career on the world’s opera stages singing, among other roles, Violetta, Mimì and Manon, and winning two Grammys, inclu

Classic Rock

2 min read

Empyre were busier than most musicians during lockdown. Vocalist/guitarist Henrik Steenholdt explains how in 2020 the Northampton band released an album and six singles, performed livestreams and even managed to play three proper, physical gigs. How

BBC Music Magazine

2 min read

Hyperion Records joins the streaming revolution Esteemed label to make its entire catalogue available to stream by early 2024 Hyperion Records has announced plans to make all of its recordings available to stream by early next year. Until now, the ac