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

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

BN1 Magazine

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For those of you who haven’t listened to Creeping Jean’s music, from the band name alone you could be forgiven for imagining a sound that is quietly tiptoeing out of the shadows. You’d be wrong. With soaring melodies counterbalancing guitar riffs lik

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

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

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

Total Guitar

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he first six shapes are used in the intro, verse and refrain; you can then switch from fingerpicking to a simple strum pattern for a lift during the second half of the song. Perfect when performing solo. Use the regular D shape (instead of D/F#) for

Evening Standard

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Once, afrobeats would have been lumped into the category of ‘world music’. Just as anything from outside the Western poposphere was all thrown together as music from ‘elsewhere’, reserved only for nerdy aficionados or pretentious rockstars. Not anymo

FHM Australia

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Parmalee is an American country music band consisting of brothers Matt Thomas (lead vocals, guitar) and Scott Thomas (drums), along with their cousin Barry Knox (bass) and Josh McSwain (guitar), who is a best friend since childhood. They are signed t

Saturday Star

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Up-and-coming DJ Mabore Jack Hopane, fondly known as Hopadinho SA, gives us a peek into his musical journey, from moving to the City of Gold in search of greener pastures, to sharing stages with acclaimedmusic sensations. The music star hailing from

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

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

Saturday Star

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If you asked the band members of renowned Afrikaans alternative rock band Fokofpolisiekar whether they expected to reach two decades, the answer would be a resounding no. Yet, 20 years later the band are alive and kicking and playing some of the best

Harper's Bazaar India

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It says something when 10-year-olds croon to hopelessly falling in love without quite grasping the meaning of it. For perspective, that was the impact Grammy-nominated, English reggae and pop band UB40 had from the ’80s onwards, with their Billboard

Esquire Singapore

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For more than 20 years, Simple Plan has been loved for making songs about love. This year, the quartet—consisting of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocalist and bassist), Chuck Comeau (drummer), Jeff Stinco (lead guitarist) and Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm guita

Saturday Star

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A decade in the clustered music industry is an achievement if you would consider the amount of talent that South Africa boasts in the production world. For DJ Edit SA – real name Kennedy Mudzuli – the decade he has spent producing music has been a re

Scootering

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Sidney Barnes is now in his seventh decade in the music industry. Over that time he has worked with many of the all-time greats, as well as being involved in many of the landmark periods in the evolution of soul music. In the run up to The Sidney Bar

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

Electronic Musician

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Nouf Sufyani – aka Cosmicat – is Saudi Arabia's first female superstar DJ. In a country that only allowed women to drive in 2018 – after a 30-year ban – that's quite an achievement. Born in the ‘90s, when playing music in public was still considered

Scootering

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What would become universally known as Northern Soul grew organically from the original 1960s Mod scene and mirroring that evolution are The Signatures, a 10-piece Northern Soul tribute band, whose roots are entwined with the British scooter and Mod

Residential Tech Today

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For some people, “music is life.” For Allison Hagendorf, music actually is her life. Hagendorf is a national television personality and live announcer, music journalist, former “head of rock” at Spotify, and the host/executive producer of the Spotify

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

India Today

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When Maribou State headlines Magnetic Fields, it will mark a full circle for the British electronic music duo comprising Chris Davids and Liam Ivory. Their set will be the last show of their Kingdoms in Colour tour, which they've been performing in s

UNCUT

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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

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

You South Africa

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As one of SA’s best-loved indie-rock bands, December Streets need little introduction. They’re known for their energetic live performances and quirky rock sound that have earned them a huge fan base. Earlier this year they brought us the ridiculously

NPR

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For the 13th straight year, NPR Music is heading to Austin in search of discoveries. To prepare, we want to hear music by every artist scheduled to perform at the festival.

Saturday Star

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A new South African music podcast has promised to be a cut-above-the-rest. Run by renowned music industry veteran Benjy Mudie, From the Hip was officially launched this week. Saturday Star chatted to Mudie about From the Hip. Can you tell me a little

FHM South Africa

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Country music star Eric Ethridge has seen his latest single “Sad Songs” being streamed millions of times, and while the pandemic has slowed down concerts/tours, that hasn’t stopped Eric from creating new music. FHM sat down with the music man to lear

NPR

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For the 11th straight year, NPR Music is heading to Austin in search of discoveries. To prepare, we want to hear music by every artist scheduled to perform at the festival.