Scootering

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Sad news of the passing of original 60s Mod, scooter scene, Mod scene and ska/ reggae DJ and promoter Pete Tebbutt broke in November. Pete worked alongside Sean Chapman in promoting and DJ-ing at many events enjoyed by Scootering readers. Sean wrote

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

Metal Hammer UK

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OK so we’ve had an 80s issue and, if I remember correctly, a 90s issue. Does this mean we can finally get a 2000s issue soon? I want a nu metal anthology! Come on, you know it makes sense, Metal Hammer! Jordan Devitt (email) We’re mostly shameless nu

Guitar Magazine

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Last month, I said that my favourite amp is my all-original 1959 Fender Bassman. This month, I’m going to explain why. The Bassman demands attention by way of its yellow tweed covering, aged and abused thanks to more than 60 years’ of use. When it’s

Computer Music

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It’s probably fair to say that The Weeknd isn’t planning to spend his entire career ‘doing the 80s’, and the same can be said for Dua Lipa, who seems to be more about sharing her enjoyment of different eras rather than sticking to one in particular.

Australian Guitar

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Landing in December 2020, Afterglow is Ed Sheeran’s most recent single, and was an immediate hit. 2019’s No.6 Collaborations Project was a predominantly electronic hip hop and R ‘n’ B affair, but Ed’s back on steel-string acoustic here, per-forming t

Beat English

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With subgenres as diverse as deep, minimal, tech, Tropical, Tribal, Disco, bass, and Future House, House is an enormously versatile genre of music. However, all sub-styles have something in common: the pumping four-to-thefloor rhythm, which already s

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

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

The Guardian

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Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp and always danceable

Stereophile

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ATTENTION ALL AUDIO SOCIETIES: We have a page on the Stereophile website devoted to you: stereophile.com/audiophile-societies. If you’d like to have your audio-society information posted on the site, email Chris Vogel at vgl@cfl.rr.com. (Please note

Guitar Player

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OUR GUITAR UNIVERSE got kicked in the soul on October 6, 2020. That’s when we lost our king. Edward Van Halen left this mortal world on that day. It was a world that he seemed only tangentially connected to beforehand. But when he left it, there was

The Guardian

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This week, Drake treated fans to a surprise drop of his new album Honestly, Nevermind. Its release, just nine months after his last record, Certified Lover Boy, received lukewarm reviews from critics, was unexpected. Fans had hoped for a return to th

Total Guitar

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It’s hard to believe that it’s 10 years since James Bay released his debut single Let It Go, a song that sold by the bucketload and made him a superstar. More recently, 2022’s Give Me The Reason, Bay’s 14th single and the opening track for third albu

Classic Rock

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How has the rock landscape changed since 1998? Everything’s changed with the advent of the internet. It’s taken away everything tactile and made it very clinical. Most people just go for the one obvious track on the album. But after a while the obvi

T3

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Hi-fi is taking the way the digital world works and pumping it up to 11 (and 120 grand) Do you remember when hi-fi was a massive deal, back in the ’70s and ’80s? I don’t. But I do recall it still being in fairly rude health in the early ’90s. D Back

Post South Africa

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Aaja Aja Mein Hun Pyar Tera, Allah Par Inkaar Tera. Ooo oo Aaja Aah of Aaja... WITH eyes blinking as they emerged from cinemas into the bright sunshine, many movie fans would have had the above opening lines of a ’60s hit song still playing in thei

Guitar World

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GUITAR WORLD » OCTOBER 2022 PAGE 48 WHAT PRODUCT IS heard on more recordings than anything else over the last 60 years? Many guitarists, musicians or even casual music fans would probably answer something like the Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul

Guitar World

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Guitar Techniques

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✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Moderate Info Key: E major Tempo: 94bpm https://bit.ly/3nFudpm Will improve your ✓ Rhythm & lead playing ✓ Theory knowledge ✓ Timing Led Zeppelin is one of the best-known rock bands of all time. The band formed in 1968 and featured guita

Los Angeles Times

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Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire have both sold millions of albums. They've both scored dozens of hit singles. And the music of both men has helped set the mood at countless cookouts and in innumerable boudoi

Bass Player

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We’re still reeling from the musical wonderland known as the NAMM Show. This month was packed with more gear news than you could shake a stick at, but also provided plenty of great performances, too. One of the top videos on No Treble was taken from

Stereophile

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Whenever, exactly, did Herb end the LSD thing, anyway? (Gramophone Dreams, December 2023). Thank God for mind expansion, whatever the source. You go Herb—don’t ever stop! Ken Perkins Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Greetings from England. I’m sure I’m not t

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

Evening Standard

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The FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 kicks off on Sunday and as the buzz starts to build for the tournament, the official soundtracks have been released. The World Cup has produced anthems from Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), K’naan’s Wavin’ Fla

Australian HiFi

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Tom Waters: Do you have a first memory, a first unforgettable musical experience that left an impression? JF: Perhaps not a single unforgettable musical experience. My father took me to one of his friends’ home at an early age where, in particular, I

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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The Roland TB-303 could be the most famous mis-used instrument. Originally designed as a bass guitar accompaniment, the 1981 synth was disappointingly not particularly good for its intended purpose, so most of the 10,000 units ended up selling cheapl

Classic Rock

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As Blue Öyster Cult prepare to fly in to headline the sixth annual Stonedead Festival in Nottinghamshire, we catch up with singer and guitarist Eric Bloom. How do you view the reception to 2020’s The Symbol Remains, the first BÖC album in almost two

Classic Rock

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Champlin-Williams-Friestedt combine experience and youth. Bill Champlin spent almost three decades with Chicago, singing many of their softrock hits, while Joseph Williams fronted Toto for two mid-1980s albums. Completed by Peter Friestedt, the trio