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.

Prog

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The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, the group he formed in 1967 with Vincent Crane (later of Atomic Rooster), are absolutely foundational to the development of progressive rock. The Crazy World spiced up their R’n’Bderived sound with classical and jazz

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

Goldmine

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During the 1970s, rock concerts began to be broadcast on mainstream radio, and quickly developed a strong following. The King Biscuit Flower Hour was the first to break through, and it ran on Sunday nights for over 20 years, across almost 300 station

Stereophile

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As I was preparing our annual Records to Die For feature for 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it occurred to me that at such a moment, “Records to Die For” didn’t evoke the same feelings it once did. That name—for what has become Stereoph

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

Classic Rock

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Since forming in Holland back in 1996, over the past 26 years Within Temptation have risen to become one of the world’s biggest symphonic rock bands. Frontwoman Sharon den Adel explains how they did it. The four upcoming dates you’re doing were origi

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

BBC Music Magazine

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Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter I was fascinated by The Magnificent Seven (April), in which Ben Goldscheider chose seven works h

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

BBC Music Magazine

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Unwanted noise (see also left) can occur in the concert hall too. The Bridgwater Hall in Manchester sits on giant rubber bushes to eliminate vibration from the nearby railway, but the Hallé Orchestra’s previous home, the Free Trade Hall, was woefully

BBC Music Magazine

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Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter I have had the good fortune and privilege to hear both Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Benjamin App

UNCUT

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The whole songwriting process and perfecting our arrangements is something that requires regular practice. We recorded this in late summer and we had been getting together weekly for at least a year before that to work on songs and arrangements. If y

Classic Rock

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Tfirst Jethro Tull studio album for nearly 20 years, The Zealot Gene landed high in our Albums Of 2022 list. Mainman Ian Anderson may be 75, but his talents as a songwriter, flautist and frontman remain undimmed. With the follow-up album done and due

JazzTimes

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To work on an installment of Bright Moments featuring the bassist and composer William Parker can feel like an exercise in futility. But not because he’s uncooperative or vague. In his cozy East Village apartment in January, Parker, 67, proved an exc

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

Electronic Musician

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After debuting on Derrick May's epic Transmat compilation Techno 2: The Next Generation with the lush-sounding single I Believe (1988), Lenny and Lawrence Burden grasped the nettle and started their own 430 West label. Frequently assisted by brothers

Future Music

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Hard house as a genre emerged in the mid 1990s, primarily from London gay clubs initially, before spreading further afield. But, to tread into uncharacteristically philosophical territory, what exactly distinguishes hard house the genre from other ho

Global Voices

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"It's a long, long time now we fighting for freedom […] I come with my bell just to second the motion, rock the rapso riddum.”

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

UNCUT

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FOR much of the past 60 years, the four musicians who make up The Meters have been a constant thread in New Orleans musical history. While still in their teens, all four – Art Neville (piano and organ), Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr (ba

Beat English

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Carpenter Brut is the artistic alter ego of Frenchman Franck Hueso, who is one of the most successful acts in synthwave. The project‘s aesthetic is based on B-movie horror, metal and the 80s. Wait, metal? Yes, metal, because Bret Halford, the fiction

The Atlantic

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“Green Light,” the comeback single for the inventive pop star, is an upbeat announcement of change.

Classic Rock

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The band’s English-born co-founder, guitarist, songwriter and only remaining original member previews their headline slot at the fifth annual Ramblin’ Man Fair in Maidstone, Kent. Do you remember the first festival that you performed at? Yeah, I thin

UNCUT

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IAZZ has always had a strong resonance for millions of South Africans. It might have been music that was created 8,000 miles away but the underlying themes – an artform born out of struggle, a stylistic fusion created in the face of segregation, an a

Goldmine

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It’s early 1978 and the new single by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street,” is blasting out on the airwaves on my small transistor radio. The hypnotic sax hook, lyrical content, musical arrangement and the voice, it all engulfs m

The Guardian

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When did you last see Terminator X and has he ever let you ride on one of the ostriches on his ostrich farm? GrimpeursPublic Enemy does a conference Zoom call every two weeks, so, yeah, I still speak to him once in a while. I’ve eaten ostrich in Sout

NPR

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On January 1, more than 400,000 audio recordings made before 1923 are going to enter the public domain. It includes all sorts of gems that haven't been widely heard for generations.

Goldmine

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For decades, the only live documents of Pink Floyd were the first half of 1969’s Ummagumma double LP and — if one attended a midnight movie — the Live at Pompeii film. As superb as both of those are, they showcased Pink Floyd and their music from the

UNCUT

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MOST mornings, you’ll find Robert Fripp in his garden. “Every day I can walk out of the door and see the season change,” he says. “It is the first time in the life of a touring musician that I’ve been able to do that.” For Fripp, lockdown has present