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

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

Guitarist

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Joni Mitchell’s Shine album was released in 2007 and came after 10 years of radio silence from the legendary singer-songwriter. Now available for the first time on 180-gram vinyl, the album won Joni a Grammy in 2008 for the instrumental track One Wee

Scootering

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Most musicians are lucky if they spend part of their career in a nationally known band, even fewer feature in an internationally established one. However, legendary drummer Kenney Jones hasn’t been in just one internationally renowned band, not even

North & South

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AT A TIME when re-releases by major artists have become so grandiose the Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder tour of 1975 has spawned a 14-CD boxed set that runs for more than 10 hours, it’s a slight shock to realise one of New Zealand’s most iconic bands, Her

Prog

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“I tend to plough my own furrow. I’m focused on what I’m doing and not comparing it with what other people are doing,” says Maddy Prior as Prog rounds up an afternoon’s talk about her early life and Steeleye Span reaching 50-plus years. And maybe bec

Classic Rock

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IT WAS 2002’S sizzling Live At The Wetlands album that introduced a young Robert Randolph And The Family Band to the world. Since then the pedal-steel guitarist and singer has spent most of his adult life on the road. Earning his spurs through gospel

Classic Rock

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WITH THEIR 1991 arrival album Splendor Solis, the Canadian trio laid out their table with a thrilling mix of weighty rock with Led Zep overtones, acoustic interludes, Middle Eastern vibes and Jim Morrisonlike vocals. Having lost their way a little in

Classic Rock

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“He was up for anything, Bon. His nickname was ‘Ronnie Roadtest’, a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, rootin’, tootin’ rock’n’roll soldier. That was his public image. It was true of him too. But at the same time he’d be the guy going round in the morning

Guitar Player

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IN THE ANNALS of progressive rock, Jethro Tull’s Aqualung stands apart from much of the meandering music that populates the genre. The album came out 50 years ago, in 1971, a year that also heralded the arrival of other prog-rock classics, such as Ye

You South Africa

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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

Goldmine

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In 1967, The Fifth Estate stormed the Top 40 with “Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which peaked at No.11. Obscured by the fun, novelty-tinged cover of The Wizard of Oz classic was that the band were a versatile and powerful live act. Hailing from the

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

UNCUT

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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

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

The Independent

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In their stylishly cluttered rehearsal studio at an undisclosed Dublin location, anthemic indie rockers Inhaler are taking a deep breath. “People forget that at the start of the pandemic, we didn’t know how long it was going to last,” says frontman E

Classic Rock

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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

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 –

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

Stereophile

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It has been almost two decades since Norah Jones emerged shyly from obscurity into astonishing pop/jazz stardom, first with 2001’s First Sessions EP, her Blue Note launchpad, then with 2002’s Come Away With Me, which wowed the world. It has been surm

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

Classic Rock

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Rising young Welsh rockers Florence Black close their shows with a sledgehammer version of Budgie’s best-known tune. “Budgie were awesome,” says the trio’s singer, Tristan Thomas. “They were one of the first heavy metal bands back in the day, they he

Goldmine

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With the release of 50th Anniversary Return to the Troubadour: Deliverin’ Again, it’s time to reassess the career of Richie Furay in the context of today’s Americana music scene. As part of Buffalo Springfield, Poco and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band

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

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

NPR

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Trumpeter Hugh Masekela and producer Stewart Levine organized the 1974 festival and produced the new album Zaire 74: The African Artists, which captures performances by Miriam Makeba, Franco and more.

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

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.

NPR

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The quartet, known colloquially as Goat Rodeo, jammed out from four different homes in this Tiny Desk quarantine performance.

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