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

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

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.

NPR

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

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

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

Saturday Star

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Up-and-coming DJ Mabore Jack Hopane, fondly known as Hopadinho SA, gives us a peek into his musical journey, from moving to the City of Gold in search of greener pastures, to sharing stages with acclaimedmusic sensations. The music star hailing from

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Morgan Evans was already a bona fide country music favorite, but in recent months his career took an unexpected turn when his personal life threw him a curveball. The result was a deeply personal song and a viral performance that showed the world a n

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

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

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.

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.

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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Fusing a wild-eyed mix of old-time country with a bit of punk-rock mischief, the Grammy-winning Americana group Old Crow Medicine Show has done the important work of shooting folks straight for more than 20 years now. Whether decrying prejudice, ineq

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

Metal Hammer UK

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OXYMORRONS HAVE A lot to say, but one word you won’t find in their vocabulary? ‘Rest.’ The foursome, from Queens, New York, began releasing music back in 2015 –but shifted gears with their 2021 EP, Mohawks &Durags, with Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler

Scootering

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Most musicians are lucky if they spend part of their career in a nationally known band, even fewer feature in an internationally established one. However, legendary drummer Kenney Jones hasn’t been in just one internationally renowned band, not even

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

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

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

Residential Tech Today

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For some people, “music is life.” For Allison Hagendorf, music actually is her life. Hagendorf is a national television personality and live announcer, music journalist, former “head of rock” at Spotify, and the host/executive producer of the Spotify

Los Angeles Times

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Stop everything: Beyoncé's first song from her upcoming "Renaissance" album is dropping tonight. "Break My Soul" will be released at midnight Eastern time, which means West Coast listeners can hear it at 9 p.m. Pacific. The ultraprivate Grammy winner

Los Angeles Times

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If you were there - or if you just watched it on YouTube - then you know that Beyonce's performance at the 2018 Coachella festival may have been the greatest concert of our time. A loving and deeply thought-through re-creation of a halftime show at a

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

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

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

TechLife News

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For many, (the artist formerly known as) Prince was more than just a musical artist. He was an icon, a sex symbol, a rebel, a prodigy, an innovator who brought us an oeuvre that transcended boundaries of musical style, textures, and genres. He was kn

AppleMagazine

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For many, (the artist formerly known as) Prince was more than just a musical artist. He was an icon, a sex symbol, a rebel, a prodigy, an innovator who brought us an oeuvre that transcended boundaries of musical style, textures, and genres. He was kn

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

JOY Magazine

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Cape Flats jazz and Gospel star, Jonathan Rubain is a God-loving local musician who successfully combines both genres to captivate audiences as he performs all around South Africa. He is outspoken on his love for Christ, and is respected by his fans