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

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

Global Voices

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As COVID-19 sweeps through Africa, musicians have taken a hit with canceled concerts, festivals, tours and interrupted studio time. Yet, they have risen to the challenge by composing catchy tunes.

Evening Standard

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If you’re even remotely into London’s clubbing scene, it’s likely that you’ll have noticed a fresh new strain of dance music pounding across the capital over the last few years. A bit like bog standard house music if it wasn’t in such a hurry all the

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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The job of any good metal album is capturing fans' collective despair and fury. But how do you get them into a new record if even the band can't be in the same room together due to COVID-19? When Chino Moreno tracked his vocals for Deftones' new albu

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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Since forming in Holland back in 1996, over the past 26 years Within Temptation have risen to become one of the world’s biggest symphonic rock bands. Frontwoman Sharon den Adel explains how they did it. The four upcoming dates you’re doing were origi

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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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

Weekend Argus Saturday

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SOUTH African artists across the spectrum continued to thrive in 2023. From amapiano to hip hop, our songs took the world by storm. Here’s our pick of top 5 local songs. Water by Tyla The South African born global sensation took over the local and

Saturday Star

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SOUTH African artists across the spectrum continued to thrive in 2023. From amapiano to hip hop, our songs took the world by storm. Here’s our pick of top 5 local songs. Water by Tyla The South African born global sensation took over the local and

Independent on Saturday

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SOUTH African artists across the spectrum continued to thrive in 2023. From amapiano to hip hop, our songs took the world by storm. Here’s our pick of top 5 local songs. Water by Tyla The South African born global sensation took over the local and

NPR

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2014 began with a Frozen streak, included some stumbles (U2 and Apple, we're looking at you) and closed with an R&B revelation.

The Independent

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It’s "now or never" to stop runaway climate change devastating the one planet in the universe we can call home, the UN has said. Despite more than half a century of increasingly dire warnings, emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases are still

NPR

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The culture of electronic dance music has long been seen as a safe space for the marginalized, but over the past decade it took a sharp turn towards the mainstream.

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

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

Global Voices

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"It's a long, long time now we fighting for freedom […] I come with my bell just to second the motion, rock the rapso riddum.”

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

The Independent

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I guess I have two heads,” Tippa- Irie says, of his personas in private and the public eye. “When I’m on stage, I transform into Tippa Irie who is more courageous and confident, if you like. Whereas Anthony Henry is a bit more reserved and shy; not s

The Independent

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I guess I have two heads,” Tippa Irie says, of his personas in private and the public eye. “When I’m on stage, I transform into Tippa Irie who is courageous and confident, if you like. Whereas Anthony Henry is a bit more reserved and shy. When I’m no

Global Voices

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While digital platforms have helped grow the market and reach of music for African and in particular Tanzanian music, there are genuine concerns about monetization and loyalties.

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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Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther franchise has returned to the big screens once again this weekend. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is in cinemas worldwide, released to rave reviews and major excitement. Yet this is also a moment of pause, since thi

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

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

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

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