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

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

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

NPR

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In the wake of "Despacito," Louie Perez of Los Lobos shares what his band did after its own Spanish-language No. 1 song, released 30 years ago.

Prog

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The Yes Top 40 [Prog 107] was an interesting read. The Top 20 spoke volumes either for the age of your readers or the quality of songs. The most recent Yes song in the Top 10 was from 1977, 43 years ago. Doesn’t really say much for stuff released sin

Australian Guitar

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The success of Ernie Ball strings in and of itself is a remarkable, noteworthy achievement, but it’s only one facet of the company’s extraordinary history over the last 60 years, starting in 1962 when Ernie Ball first packaged his own branded custom

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

Guitar World

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GUITAR WORLD » OCTOBER 2022 PAGE 48 WHAT PRODUCT IS heard on more recordings than anything else over the last 60 years? Many guitarists, musicians or even casual music fans would probably answer something like the Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul

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

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

Antique Trader

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In the early stages of World War II, John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. That birth went unnoticed and unheralded by most people outside of his immediate family, but some twenty years later almost everyone his age in the English-speaking worl

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

Classic Rock

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How has the rock landscape changed since 1998? Everything’s changed with the advent of the internet. It’s taken away everything tactile and made it very clinical. Most people just go for the one obvious track on the album. But after a while the obvi

Reader's Digest UK

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MY EARLIEST MEMORY WAS THE SONG “NOW IS THE HOUR”, which was a big hit for Vera Lynn shortly after the war. Bing Crosby recorded that in the Fifties, and that might have been the version that I heard, because a lot of big singers at the time recorded

UNCUT

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HOW did a nice boy from Canada end up in the Pink Fairies? I was playing part-time in a strip club in Vancouver. A friend from high school wrote to me from England telling me to come over to London. He was living with a band called the Deviants abov

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

Under the Radar

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To most of our readers, Luna hopefully need no introduction. The band were a ’90s indie rock fixture until their public breakup in 2005, documented in the 2006 documentary film Tell Me Do You Miss Me? It’s not like they rested on their laurels du

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.

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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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

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

Guitar World

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WHEN THE UNDERTONES released their third album, Positive Touch, in 1981, it marked a distinct change in direction for the Northern Irish punks. They broke through with the all-time punk classic, “Teenage Kicks” in 1978, followed by a string of hits a

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

Saturday Star

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If you asked the band members of renowned Afrikaans alternative rock band Fokofpolisiekar whether they expected to reach two decades, the answer would be a resounding no. Yet, 20 years later the band are alive and kicking and playing some of the best

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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In looking back at a career that spans half a century, there’s a lot of ground to cover. You could say that Elton John began his career overview in 2017 with the release of Diamonds, a greatest hits box set whose deluxe edition ran to 51 tracks. Then

Bass Player

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Anyone who enjoys the cranium-crushing sound of heavy metal and its slightly more refined accomplice, hard rock, owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. Alongside their contemporaries Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, Led Zep were one of the unholy trio of British

Stereophile

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The first Beatles music is more than 60 years old, and the group broke up 53 years ago. Yet they and their music remain relevant. So when Apple Corps announced “The Last Beatles Song,” on October 26, the world’s media ran with the story.1 Beatles fan

UNCUT

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Thanks for an excellent in-depth review of Neil Young's Archives Vol II: 1972-1976 boxset [January issue]. I am one of the lucky people who bagged a copy from the 3,000 on offer from Neil's Archives online store in the USA for a princely sum of over

Classic Rock

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“Iwas worried that there weren’t enough people who knew about us,” says Jeff Lynne, explaining his anxiety over reviving ELO to headline at an all-day festival in London’s Hyde Park in September 2014. “We took a big chance. The crowd could’ve gone ho