Classic Rock

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IT WAS 2002’S sizzling Live At The Wetlands album that introduced a young Robert Randolph And The Family Band to the world. Since then the pedal-steel guitarist and singer has spent most of his adult life on the road. Earning his spurs through gospel

Los Angeles Times

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Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates says he secured his date to February's Grammy Awards ceremony many years ago. "When I was younger, it was always a thing that my mom joked about. 'All right, stop drumming, it's 9 o'clock.' And I'd be like, 'Please, l

Bass Player

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Formerly grunge stalwarts, the Californian quartet Stone Temple Pilots reinvented their sound with their third album, 1996’s Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop, with that record now recognized as a career turning point. Featuring three ch

Classic Rock

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FOUNDED IN 2005 by Philadelphia neighbours Kurt Vile and Adam Granduciel, The War On Drugs have since expanded into a fearsome sextet, updating the classic tenets of heartland rock for a whole new generation. Latest album I Don’t Live Here Anymore –

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

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

Classic Rock

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Empyre were busier than most musicians during lockdown. Vocalist/guitarist Henrik Steenholdt explains how in 2020 the Northampton band released an album and six singles, performed livestreams and even managed to play three proper, physical gigs. How

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

Prog

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“I tend to plough my own furrow. I’m focused on what I’m doing and not comparing it with what other people are doing,” says Maddy Prior as Prog rounds up an afternoon’s talk about her early life and Steeleye Span reaching 50-plus years. And maybe bec

City Press

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Our local House fraternity has consistently kept its shoulder to the wheel, doing what it can to bring on board a multitude of vocalists, song writers and stylings to ensure the genre remains one of the more enjoyable ones we have. Our best internati

Guitarist

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Soulful return for the first lady of blues rock “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some style

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

You South Africa

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Fans can expect to hear all the hits that made Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of A-ha one of the biggest bands of the ’80s and early ’90s, such as The Sun Always Shines on TV and Take on Me. We caught up with songwriter and g

The Independent

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The lengthy list of nominees for the 2023 Grammys have officially been unveiled. On Tuesday (15 November), the Recording Academy announced the artists who have been nominated in each category, with Adele and Beyoncé battling it out for the top award

The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The season of Christmas music––of Mariah Carey blast

Prog

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“My first encounter with the music of Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson came through an advert placed on my school noticeboard in 1980. Somebody was selling a copy of Aqualung cheaply. Due to my interest in progressive music, I’d heard of Jethro Tull but

Guitarist

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Soulful return for the first lady of blues rock “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some styl

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

Stereophile

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THAT HAPPENS IN COLLEGE STAYS IN COLLEGE” MIGHT BE THE BEST POLICY FOR MOST UNDERGRAD-FORMED BANDS, BUT SNARKY PUPPY IS AN EXCEPTION TO THAT RULE (AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS). BASSIST/COMPOSER MICHAEL LEAGUE FOUND FERTILE MUSICAL GROUND IN THE JAZZ STUDI

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

Classic Rock

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When Rival Sons kick off the UK and Ireland leg of their tour, in Norwich on June 27, it will have been 10 years and 364 days since the release of their second album, Pressure & Time, which will be the focus of the shows. “It’s been cool to get to kn

Guitar Player

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IN THE ANNALS of progressive rock, Jethro Tull’s Aqualung stands apart from much of the meandering music that populates the genre. The album came out 50 years ago, in 1971, a year that also heralded the arrival of other prog-rock classics, such as Ye

What Hi-Fi?

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Pop is music that becomes part of the vernacular; lovable and well-crafted songs that have achieved considerable commercial success. Jazz, the blues, R’n’B, gospel and folk are among pop’s roots, while electronica, dance, rock, metal and hip-hop are

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

Guitarist

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Much like the revolving door of a football team presents loyal followers with a different line-up of players under one familiar banner, there are plenty of gigging household name acts that contain very few, and sometimes no, original members. Althoug

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

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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There are quite a few folks who contend that the modern-day jam-band scene was birthed out of the death of Jerry Garcia. The community he and his bandmates in the Grateful Dead had built was something fans refused to let languish. Instead, bands like

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

NPR

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Featuring Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's duet with blues legend Buddy Guy, Ani DiFranco, Rhiannon Giddens and more.