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

Guitarist

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Joni Mitchell’s Shine album was released in 2007 and came after 10 years of radio silence from the legendary singer-songwriter. Now available for the first time on 180-gram vinyl, the album won Joni a Grammy in 2008 for the instrumental track One Wee

Guitar World

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Q: SKID ROW’S SCOTTI HILL ON ACE FREHLEY “When I talk about Ace, people need to understand that this guy was one of the earliest influences — out of anybody — for me. Before I was a guitar player, I was Ace Frehley for Halloween, so he was on my rada

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

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

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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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.

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

Classic Rock

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Live And Dangerous – Eight-CD Super Deluxe edition UMC MERCURY The Greatest Live Album Of All Time – along with the seven gigs recorded to make it. Since June 1978 we’ve debated whether Deep Purple, UFO, Status Quo or even Kiss released a better do

NPR

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Influenced by jazz, the Kingston-born vocalist revolutionized the art of occupying a space with his words. "Before U-Roy, no one was toasting," Grammy winner Sean Paul tells NPR.

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

Goldmine

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Retirement hasn’t been able to stick with Tommy Roe, who by his own count has stepped away from the concert spotlight at least five times. What makes the pending return from his February 2018 retirement different from the others is that this time he’

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

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

Electronic Musician

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Elton John has been in the news a lot recently, as he continues to wind down his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. As of this writing, he just closed out his final US appearance with a two-night stand at Dodger Stadium, the scene of his now famous 197

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

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

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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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

Classic Rock

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“He was up for anything, Bon. His nickname was ‘Ronnie Roadtest’, a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, rootin’, tootin’ rock’n’roll soldier. That was his public image. It was true of him too. But at the same time he’d be the guy going round in the morning

Electronic Musician

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Elton John has been in the news a lot recently, as he continues to wind down his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. As of this writing, he just closed out his final US appearance with a two-night stand at Dodger Stadium, the scene of his now famous 197

Goldmine

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With the release of 50th Anniversary Return to the Troubadour: Deliverin’ Again, it’s time to reassess the career of Richie Furay in the context of today’s Americana music scene. As part of Buffalo Springfield, Poco and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band

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

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

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

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/426nebY Brought to you by… Few bands have been as iconic and timeless as the great Bon Jovi. Bringing the 1980s era of hair metal to the masses with their radio-friendly anthems, Bon Jovi paved the way for huge choruses,

Scootering

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Although I didn’t know what its title was for a long time, I’ll never forget when I first heard ‘It’ll Never Be Over For Me’ by Timi Yuro. It was Morecambe 1984, and we were helping set up the room after a deaf and dumb disco (yes – that’s right – an

Guitar Techniques

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BACK IN 1978 I witnessed an amazing concert featuring Colosseum II with a young Gary Moore on guitar. It was called a ‘simulcast’, where BBC TV showed the film footage, and BBC radio broadcast the audio simultaneously - hence the name. At the time I

Guitar Techniques

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✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Moderate Info Key: E major Tempo: 94bpm https://bit.ly/3nFudpm Will improve your ✓ Rhythm & lead playing ✓ Theory knowledge ✓ Timing Led Zeppelin is one of the best-known rock bands of all time. The band formed in 1968 and featured guita

North & South

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AT A TIME when re-releases by major artists have become so grandiose the Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder tour of 1975 has spawned a 14-CD boxed set that runs for more than 10 hours, it’s a slight shock to realise one of New Zealand’s most iconic bands, Her