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

The Big Issue

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Last year was the biggest ever for live music. Huge global tours from Beyoncé, Madonna, Elton John and Ed Sheeran brought in hundreds of millions. Next year looks set to be another huge hitter – the luckiest of you may already be looking ahead to Tay

Metal Hammer UK

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A WILD AND unhinged amalgam of thuggish mathcore, explosive electronics and bug-eyed, glitchy noise, Frontierer’s music is obnoxiously thrilling and genuinely terrifying. As showcased on latest album Oxidized, the Scottish crew’s insane hybrid is the

Los Angeles Times

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INDIO, Calif. - For about a decade after Daft Punk's landmark 2006 performance, EDM was ascendant at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. There have always been DJs and electronic acts at the fest - the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy play

Evening Standard

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It seems like the same programme. The dreamy opening theme with its soaring strings, the cosy tête-à-tête between host and guest, the interspersed tracks ranging from classical to pop to world music. But there is something wrong with Desert Island Di

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

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

The Guardian

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This week, Drake treated fans to a surprise drop of his new album Honestly, Nevermind. Its release, just nine months after his last record, Certified Lover Boy, received lukewarm reviews from critics, was unexpected. Fans had hoped for a return to th

NPR

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Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk over the past decade, this one by British composer Anna Meredith is one of the most exhilarating.

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

NPR

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The award-winning Irish quartet performs three songs from its latest album, The Livelong Day, at the Tiny Desk.

NPR

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The culture of electronic dance music has long been seen as a safe space for the marginalized, but over the past decade it took a sharp turn towards the mainstream.

The Big Issue

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The Big Issue has long been a passionate supporter of grassroots music and musicians across the UK. However, the UK music industry is facing a crisis. It’s probably common knowledge that the life of working musicians across the UK has become incredib

Evening Standard

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Just before the pandemic struck, the DJ, producer and recording artist Fred Again took an impromptu away day trip from his London home to Berlin. ‘I went in and out one Friday to Berghain,’ he recalls. For the past 15 years, Berghain has settled int

Australian HiFi

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Hugh Dean has been manufacturing amplifiers in Melbourne for more than 20 years. He owns a company called Aspen Amplifiers. His Maya and Saksa solid-state power units were marketed as ‘bespoke’ units in Australia and overseas. His current products ca

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

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

Stereophile

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The Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society (LAOCAS) has chosen John Atkinson, former editor-in-chief and now technical editor of Stereophile, as the winner of its 29th annual Founder’s Award. The award comes 57 years after JA1 began making recor

Audio Technology

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Mickey currently lives in the Victorian countryside, freelance designing venue tech systems and acoustics. Prior to that he accidentally co-founded a bedrock of Sydney’s indie rock scene, Troy Horse. It grew from a rehearsal studio into a studio comp

NPR

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From the beginning, NPR pursued the goal of developing the art and potential of radio through experimentation.

The Critic Magazine

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THERE ARE TWO WAYS of looking back on the Covid year. It was either an unmitigated catastrophe for music and musicians, or the greatest opportunity in history. Ever an optimist, I take the latter view. Let’s not belittle the damage, though. A large c

Prog

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Scott Black spent his childhood immersed in the myths of the English countryside. The Green Lung guitarist grew up in rural Devon and used to pass the time playing with his friends in a disused quarry. Back at home, he’d get told that the quarry was

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

Caravan World

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Get some country music in your summertime trip with a visit to Tamworth in January for the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival, from 14-23 January 2022! If you’ve been missing live music, festival atmosphere and fun in the sun, plan a stop at Tamw

Australian Guitar

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Even after 17 years, the annual BIGSOUND festival continues to evolve. As always a celebration of the innovations and revelations shaping the Australian music industry, this year’s bash posed a notable focus on audience participation. Gone was the us

Cottage Life

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WE WERE ALL HAVING A PERFECTLY pleasant evening at our friend’s cottage on Kennisis Lake, Ont., when Jeff decided to bust out his old CD collection. Twelve of us were there on a night late in the summer, two generations—us in our twenties and our par

Stereophile

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ATTENTION ALL AUDIO SOCIETIES: We have a page on the Stereophile website devoted to you: stereophile.com/audiophile-societies. If you’d like to have your audio-society information posted on the site, e-mail Chris Vogel at info@xlinkaudio.com. Please

This Week in Asia

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THE WILD BOYS I have memories of travelling around in the back of an exhausted 10-year-old Bedford CF van with the band back in 1982. It was a cheap heap bought from a dodgy mate of our keyboardist, John. "Final Academy" was the name of the band, and

Camper Trailer Australia

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Australia has its fair share of summer festivals, but there is only one Tamworth Country Music Festival (TCMF). Tamworth is the acknowledged home of country music in Australia. Like Nashville in the USA, Tamworth is instantly recognised for its links

Stereophile

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ATTENTION ALL AUDIO SOCIETIES: We have a page on the Stereophile website devoted to you: stereophile.com/audiophile-societies. If you’d like to have your audio-society information posted on the site, e-mail Chris Vogel at info@xlinkaudio.com. Please