Power & Motoryacht

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Before the world irrevocably changed, I was going into the office every day. Monotony was an issue. To avoid feeling stymied, and itching for a brew, on the odd Monday night, myself and a few of the editors could be found congregating at the Griswold

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

Surfing Life

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“Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar, that wet, splashy sound.”—Dick Dale, the King of the Surf Guitar1 If you think about it, surfing is as sonic as it is physical. The sound of the ocean is the first song the Earth

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

Scootering

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Although I didn’t know what its title was for a long time, I’ll never forget when I first heard ‘It’ll Never Be Over For Me’ by Timi Yuro. It was Morecambe 1984, and we were helping set up the room after a deaf and dumb disco (yes – that’s right – an

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

Metal Hammer UK

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The opening of the show is like something from a horror movie. The sinister choral intro of Welcome Back, O’ Sleeping Dreamer reaches a crescendo as blinding blue light floods the venue. Lorna Shore run onstage. “Berlinnnnn! Are you guys ready to fuc

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

Prog

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“My first encounter with the music of Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson came through an advert placed on my school noticeboard in 1980. Somebody was selling a copy of Aqualung cheaply. Due to my interest in progressive music, I’d heard of Jethro Tull but

Total Guitar

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Neo-soul pop hit Happy was released from the soundtrack to the film Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and went on to become the most commercially successful single worldwide the following year with nearly 14 million sales/streams. The upbeat soul/Motown groov

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

Woman NZ

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* Scan this code in the Spotify app to listen to the playlist The male voice in song is my first true love – predating cigarettes, sourdough and pedicures, and even the actual male embodied presence. The sound of Tony Orlando, Neil Diamond and Don Mc

Metal Hammer UK

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IN SEPTEMBER 1991, Nirvana released Nevermind, and blew the doors wide open for alternative artists to enter the mainstream. Though certainly not alone in representing alternative culture, Nirvana’s success kickstarted a veritable gold rush as major

What Hi-Fi?

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Unlike stereo sound when that was first developed, spatial audio came to prominence in the blink of an eye. Now it’s (literally) all around us. As we said in our feature detailing everything you need to know about spatial audio when using the Apple A

NPR

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This month's playlist includes a single off Anna Burch's forthcoming debut album, a cover of a Willie Dixon song and a powerful spoken-word track about homelessness.

Los Angeles Times

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Dick Dale played electric guitar like he was more interested in the electricity than in the guitar. Listen to the way he starts his signature song, "Misirlou," with the sound of his pick slicing against a quivering string - a power line, basically -

Prog

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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

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Total Eclipse was a worldwide hit in 1983, but Tyler and Steinman’s follow-ups didn’t quite hit the same sweet spot with the public – until a film called Footloose came along the following year. The film’s score and screenplay were written by Dean Pi

Marie Claire Australia

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The last time I saw you was just before the Queen concert at the end of February 2020, just before Covid shut everything down. That show was incredible. The energy in the audience was amazing, and their energy charged us up. It was one of my favourit

NPR

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Miley Cyrus, SZA, Billie Eilish and others had a big night. But once again, the music industry found itself in the long shadow of Taylor Swift, who won album of the year and announced a new project.

Classic Rock

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Welcome to our epic rundown of The Greatest Songs Of The Century… So Far! The rules are simple: 1. ONLY ONE SONG PER BAND/ARTIST Yeah, we know there are a handful who wrote more than one great song in the past 20 years, but we want to give everyone a

Classic Rock

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Armed with a gleefully luxurious new rock record – and a flame-spurting, cathedral-decked stage show to match – Ghost were one of 2022’s juiciest, sparkliest prospects. Impera was built for the arenas they headlined, conveying Tobias Forge’s internal

Los Angeles Times

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Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates says he secured his date to February's Grammy Awards ceremony many years ago. "When I was younger, it was always a thing that my mom joked about. 'All right, stop drumming, it's 9 o'clock.' And I'd be like, 'Please, l

NPR

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Korean pop's near-total global ubiquity may be intimidating for the uninitiated, but getting into the music shouldn't be. Our introduction includes tracks by H.O.T., Girls Generation, BTS and more.

The Guardian

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We exist in a once unimaginable world of musical abundance. The internet means that more or less the entirety of pop history is available to anyone at the touch of a button; more than 100,000 new tracks are uploaded to just one streaming service ever

Guitar World

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GROWING UP IN the Sixties and early Seventies, all the future Bangles were mad for the Beatles. Susanna Hoffs used to pose in front of the mirror, pretending she was on stage with the Fabs. Michael Steele wore a mop-top wig and did skits in school. D

Los Angeles Times

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The job of any good metal album is capturing fans' collective despair and fury. But how do you get them into a new record if even the band can't be in the same room together due to COVID-19? When Chino Moreno tracked his vocals for Deftones' new albu

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

Los Angeles Times

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If you were there - or if you just watched it on YouTube - then you know that Beyonce's performance at the 2018 Coachella festival may have been the greatest concert of our time. A loving and deeply thought-through re-creation of a halftime show at a

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