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

Total Guitar

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We love a good pop tune here at TG, and Olivia Rodrigo’s Good 4 U, from her 2021 debut, Sour, definitely counts! The album was conceived as a multi-styled tapestry of songs, taking in mainstream pop, rock, punk, folk and more – and, though Olivia doe

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

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

Total Guitar

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Neo-soul pop hit Happy was released from the soundtrack to the film Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and went on to become the most commercially successful single worldwide the following year with nearly 14 million sales/streams. The upbeat soul/Motown groov

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

Guitar Techniques

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Radiohead made a huge impact on music in the latter years of the 20th century and into the 21st. Along with bands like U2 and REM, they recorded some of the most classic songs in recent memory. Formed in Oxfordshire, England in the mid 1980s by schoo

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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In the summer of 1997, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood sat down with NPR to talk about their new album OK Computer, just as everything was about to change for the band.

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

Total Guitar

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The third single (released St Patrick’s Day 2017) from Sheeran’s triumphant third album ÷, Galway Girl features a heavy Celtic influence – the result of a collaboration with Irish folk band Beoga, who co-wrote the song. The song was huge worldwide hi

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

Goldmine

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In 1967, The Fifth Estate stormed the Top 40 with “Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which peaked at No.11. Obscured by the fun, novelty-tinged cover of The Wizard of Oz classic was that the band were a versatile and powerful live act. Hailing from the

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

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

Goldmine

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On September 15, we lost singer-songwriter and producer Ric Ocasek, a founding member and leader of The Cars. Ric and Benjamin Orr had played in a few Ohio bands before ultimately moving to the Boston scene, which led to The Cars’ self-titled polishe

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

UNCUT

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ONE afternoon in the late ’70s, Eddy Grant was making the regular pilgrimage from his home in North London to the Black Theatre of Brixton when he noticed the name of the market street next to Brixton tube station: Electric Avenue, so called because

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

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

Total Guitar

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Formed in 1982, the LA funk-rock foursome have sold over 120 million records, making them one of the biggest-selling bands of all time. Anthony Kiedis (vocals) and Flea (bass) are founding members, with drummer Chad Smith joining in 1988 and guitaris

Vogue Australia

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In 2020, we turned to music for comfort and joy, and we asked it to reflect back at us reminders of our past lives and reassurances that, when this was all over, dance floors and concerts and gigs would be waiting for us again. But this year, upon he

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.

Sound and Image

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Reflective and inventive return from the art-rock master. Each full moon they came, materialising from the sonic ether — one new Peter Gabriel composition every four weeks or so, slow-building over almost a year into his first full-length album of ne

Goldmine

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Maintaining a career that spans the better part of 60 years is unusual enough in the music world, but when the bulk of that career is spent married to your personal and professional partner, suffice it to say it could be considered something of an an

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

Stereophile

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WHEN AN ICON drops her first album in six years, you sit up and take notice. Bonnie Raitt made her earliest record a half-century and more ago, in August 1971. She was 21 and could easily have been carded; the face on the cover of Bonnie Raitt—that f

NPR

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Korean pop's near-total global ubiquity may be intimidating for the uninitiated, but getting into the music shouldn't be. Our introduction includes tracks by H.O.T., Girls Generation, BTS and more.

Prog

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Even at the height of the first wave of prog rock, Van der Graaf Generator were a breed apart. Driven by Peter Hammill’s idiosyncratic songwriting, Hugh Banton’s expressive and expansive organ playing and Guy Evans’s declamatory drumming, there was d

Evening Standard

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British stars Little Simz and Stormzy have four nominations each at the Mobo Awards, with both vying for album and video of the year. The annual event, which recognises and celebrates black music and culture, will be held at the Utilita Arena Sheffie