NPR

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Across the country, public radio stations (thankfully) opened their doors again in 2022 and had a busy year producing some great live music sessions. Here are the best of the bunch, featuring studio performances, home recordings and socially-distance

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

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

Classic Rock

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Formed in 1994 by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody (the latter died six years later) – both members of the Allman Brothers Band – American southern rock jam group Gov’t Mule have carved out a successful career while flying beneath the

Under the Radar

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When hatching plans to celebrate Under the Radar’s 20th anniversary I knew I wanted to go beyond just producing a special 20th anniversary issue. Despite two decades of writing about albums, one thing we’d never done is actually put one out ourselves

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

Total Guitar

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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

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

NPR

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The best Live Sessions of 2021 feature performances from Japanese Breakfast, Samm Henshaw, Yola and many more.

Weekend Argus Saturday

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A BEVY of international singers traipsed their way to Cape Town this year, giving music lovers plenty to sing-a-long with, enjoy and talk about. Fans were spoilt for choice, but these international gems didn’t come cheap, and you’d have been lucky

New Zealand Listener

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The New Zealand Music Hall of Fame has been contentious from first inductees Johnny Devlin and Jordan Luck in 2007 on. Many people complain certain eras or important figures have not been represented. If you’re a teenager, you might look at an old in

Australian Guitar

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The Mark Of Cain emerged from a relatively isolated city whose music scene, in the mid ‘80s, had already birthed punk acts like The Exploding White Mice and Perdition. A decade prior Adelaide had experienced the glory days of their most popular music

Reader's Digest UK

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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

Goldmine

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THE CANADIAN QUARTET The Kings celebrate the 40th anniversary of their hit “Switchin’ to Glide,” which reached No. 43 in the U.S. in 1980, a lively song beginning with the line, “Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view.” Their D

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

Goldmine

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Tower of Power boasts one of America’s greatest all-time horn sections. From their humble beginnings in the Bay Area of California way, way back in the 1960s, to their new and totally invigorating Step Up (Concord Records), the band put together by E

NPR

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2020 is sure to reveal fantastic music from talented, emerging bands. This list features a diverse celebration of artists who've been here all along, but are only now getting to be heard.

UNCUT

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LEROY “Lonnie” Jordan is outlining the War manifesto. “Our choice of weapon was our instruments, shooting out rhythm, melody and harmony,” says the band’s singer and keyboardist. “That was our motto. We were called War, but we were all about keeping

The Independent

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Ten of the best songs of the year, as selected by Associated Press entertainment journalists. “PEACHES,” JUSTIN BIEBER, featuring DANIEL CAESAR AND GIVEON Justin Bieber was not happy with the Recording Academy last year when his “Changes” album was c

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.

UNCUT

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The Stranglers’ driving force (1938-2022) “WE were immediately drawn to one another,” Hugh Cornwell recalled of first meeting fellow musician Jet Black in Guildford in 1974. “He had a singular sense of purpose that I identified with. He threw everyth

UNCUT

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The Stranglers’ driving force (1938-2022) “WE were immediately drawn to one another,” Hugh Cornwell recalled of first meeting fellow musician Jet Black in Guildford in 1974. “He had a singular sense of purpose that I identified with. He threw everyth

Classic Rock

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In the past twelve months, Those Damn Crows have gone from grassroots hopefuls to proper rock contenders, on the back of their game-raising album Inhale/Exhale. We caught up with frontman Shane Greenhall, backstage at London’s Forum a few hours befor

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Fusing a wild-eyed mix of old-time country with a bit of punk-rock mischief, the Grammy-winning Americana group Old Crow Medicine Show has done the important work of shooting folks straight for more than 20 years now. Whether decrying prejudice, ineq

Guitar World

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“THERE ARE TRADITIONS in the world that musicians are aware of — the power of music can do certain kinds of things. You can change somebody’s life. A lot of people have experimented with that, want to know what it is, but a lot of it is kept secret.

Cowboys & Indians

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Award-winning singer-songwriter Carsen Gray calls an archipelago just 50 miles off the coast of mainland British Columbia home. A peaceful place, virtually removed from the rest of the world, it’s where Gray translates her Haida heritage and her natu

ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

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Alice Garbarini Hurley | You and your wife, Dawn Moon, met working at The Home Ranch, right? And now, after 23 years of marriage, you collaborated on music for the Robert Redford/Jane Fonda Netflix movie “Our Souls at Night,” released in September. W

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

Prog

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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

AppleMagazine

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Given his prolific and highly acclaimed back catalogue in hip hop, the legendary Nas can be easily excused for spending much of his new release looking back at the good times. There’s a wistful tone to King’s Disease that will chime with many of the