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 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

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

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

NPR

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

UNCUT

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Stephanie Phillips: “There was a lot of pushing boundaries” How was Decolonise Fest 2022? It was great. It was our first one since before the pandemic, and we didn’t get any funding and relied on donations. But we had great crowds and the bands were

Power & Motoryacht

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Before the world irrevocably changed, I was going into the office every day. Monotony was an issue. To avoid feeling stymied, and itching for a brew, on the odd Monday night, myself and a few of the editors could be found congregating at the Griswold

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

Attitude Magazine

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When Gideön founded Homo-Centric Records, his manifesto was passionate, definitive and powerful. He wanted to “re-establish the lines of queer musical tradition at the heart of house music lost to Aids and the recent capitalist desecration of dance m

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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DANI G HAS been listening to the likes of Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam for most of his life. He never imagined, though, that one day he’d be recording on their home turf. “Just being there, in the space where Chris Cornell recorded, or

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

Los Angeles Times

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A few days before Hopeless Records was to celebrate its 25th anniversary, a deluge of rain hit Los Angeles and flooded the streets around the independent punk label's Van Nuys headquarters. Water rose calf-high in the gutters around the building, mak

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

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

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.

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

NPR

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This week's entries include a call for justice, an urge to reconcile our differences and an invitation to dance. If you want to send us your song, don't delay: There's less than a week left to enter.

NPR

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This month's playlist includes 10 songs by Slingshot artists: public radio's favorite new musicians of 2018.

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

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

Vogue Australia

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When I was a teenager, about the same age as my twin daughters are now, I had a huge vinyl collection that had pride of place by the record player next to my bed. My passion for listening to records, scattered ever so fashionably on the floor of my

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

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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2020 was a major year for Tiera. She signed her first publishing deal with the Nicolle Galyon-helmed Songs & Daughters as the flagship songwriter in March and has been writing and recording for her forthcoming EP. She was tapped for CMT’s “Next Women

FHM US

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From Halifax to Hollywood Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in February 1991 in Halifax, England. His parents, both working for an art consultancy at the time, also had an older son. Constantly being surrounded by art and creatives, Sheeran took an

Marie Claire Australia

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The last time I saw you was just before the Queen concert at the end of February 2020, just before Covid shut everything down. That show was incredible. The energy in the audience was amazing, and their energy charged us up. It was one of my favourit

Cowboys & Indians

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I t’s not easy to find classic country music, but through his top-rated television show and highly successful radio show, Perley Curtis is making it his mission to keep the traditional genre alive. Fans tune in to Perley’s Place weekly on RFD-TV to s

The Guardian

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For Ed Sheeran, the release of a new album usually means a confident sweep to No 1 and steady dominance of the Top 40 over the subsequent months. But there is more at stake than usual for the 32-year-old songwriter when he releases his fifth album, –

FHM South Africa

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Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

FHM Sweden

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Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou