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

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

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

NPR

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An Oklahoma country station made news this week when it briefly refused to play a Beyoncé song. It's a resonant tale for the Black and women musicians who have tried to crack the format for decades.

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

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/3BvSmVy Brought to you by… Moderate/Advanced Info Key: Various Tempo: Various https://bit.ly/3BvSmVy Will improve your ✔ Melodic narrative ✔ Major Pentatonic vocabulary ✔ Bending accuracy & control There are few popular m

The Independent

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In recent years, the music industry has seen a growing trend of very public copyright lawsuits against popular artists. Although Ed Sheeran just won his court battle over his hit 2017 single “Shape of You”, this is not the first time the singer-song

Evening Standard

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Ever since Beyoncé announced that the second installment of Renaissance would be landing at the end of March, fans have been abuzz with excitement. But the Houston singer added a twist to the forthcoming release: massively deviating from the dance-th

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

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

The Independent

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The lengthy list of nominees for the 2023 Grammys have officially been unveiled. On Tuesday (15 November), the Recording Academy announced the artists who have been nominated in each category, with Adele and Beyoncé battling it out for the top award

Evening Standard

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Nominations for the BRIT Awards 2023 have been announced, with big names including Harry Styles, Beyoncé and Stormzy securing nods. Harry Styles and Wet Leg picked up the most nominations with four each, including in the prestigious Mastercard Album

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

Evening Standard

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If you’re even remotely into London’s clubbing scene, it’s likely that you’ll have noticed a fresh new strain of dance music pounding across the capital over the last few years. A bit like bog standard house music if it wasn’t in such a hurry all the

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

Under the Radar

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In the fall of 2019, we began a series of interviews with the intention of examining the changes in the music industry over the previous decade. A number of lines of inquiry were identified—How do musicians make a living in 2020? What do the words “i

Foxtel Magazine

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SONGLAND Stream* or watch from October 7, Wednesdays at 8.30pm on E! [125]** Sweet dreams are indeed made of this, with new reality songwriting competition Songland celebrating the magic of words and giving unknown lyricists a shot at world stardom.

Metal Hammer UK

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System Of A Down had released just one radio single, the jazzy post-hardcore oddity Sugar, when they flew to Europe in October 1998 to open for Slayer on tour. Having already supported them in the States, System guitarist Daron Malakian had developed

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

Metal Hammer UK

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What’s been happening in the Those Damn Crows world? Shan Greenhall, vocals: “It’s been pretty full-on and we’ve loved every fucking second of it. Shows across the country, playing kickass festivals. Playing Download 2019 was a real highlight. We wer

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Singer/songwriter/producer Breland burst onto the scene with his Platinum debut, “My Truck,” in 2019. Bridging the gap between country and hip-hop, the song hit number one on Spotify’s Global Viral 50, and a remix with Sam Hunt landed mentions on bes

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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1 Which British rock band is the only act to have two of its tours on the list of highest-grossing concert tours of all time (raking in $558m and $415m) and to appear in the top 10 tours of the ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s and 2010s? 2 Which Grammy-winning sin

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

NPR

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The influential reggae group, whose name means "black freedom," brought songs of solidarity and love to the Tiny Desk.

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

Guitar Techniques

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READY TO SUBSCRIBE? www.magazines direct.com CHORDS ARE A COLOSSAL component of all music. They provide the backdrop (and sometimes foreground) to everything we play, be it rustic country blues, a classical etude, an expansive rock song or a touchin

Prog

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The B-Bar can be found at the top of a short flight of stone steps just up from Plymouth harbour in this maritime city’s historical Barbican area. It’s here in this arty venue-slash-comedy club-slash eatery that Haunt The Wood began their very first

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 –

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

UNCUT

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Native Sons: Expanded 3CD Edition CHERRY RED 8/10 THERE’S nothing quite like pulling off a coup with your group’s first album, and with a guest appearance from The Byrds’ Gene Clark on Native Sons, The Long Ryders not only did just that, but they als