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

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

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

NPR

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Across the country, public radio stations (thankfully) opened their doors again in 2022 and had a busy year producing some great live music sessions. Here are the best of the bunch, featuring studio performances, home recordings and socially-distance

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

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

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

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

NPR

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NPR is celebrating Black history, culture, music, art and stories for Black History Month! Check it out here.

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

NPR

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Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk over the past decade, this one by British composer Anna Meredith is one of the most exhilarating.

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

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.

Surfing Life

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“Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar, that wet, splashy sound.”—Dick Dale, the King of the Surf Guitar1 If you think about it, surfing is as sonic as it is physical. The sound of the ocean is the first song the Earth

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

Classic Rock

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FOR 22 YEARS these Grammy-nominated South Carolinian rockers have built a serious following with their singalong heartland rock and hard-touring work ethic. They’ve regularly topped the US Rock, Alternative Rock and Christian Albums charts, and now o

Goldmine

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Tower of Power boasts one of America’s greatest all-time horn sections. From their humble beginnings in the Bay Area of California way, way back in the 1960s, to their new and totally invigorating Step Up (Concord Records), the band put together by E

Guardian Weekly

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I’m listening to the accelerated, chipmunk voice of the British singer Raye on Escapism, a rebound-sex anthem that’s currently topping the UK charts. Raye has a low, brassy singing voice, but I’m not listening to her official version. This one is pac

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

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.

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.

Guitar Techniques

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Nguyên Lê’s music fuses elements of jazz, rock, world music, hip-hop and funk. Having seen him live, we can confirm he can certainly bring his magic to the stage too. Overseas is his new album that brims with arresting music and spectacular guitar wo

Weekend Argus Saturday

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A BEVY of international singers traipsed their way to Cape Town this year, giving music lovers plenty to sing-a-long with, enjoy and talk about. Fans were spoilt for choice, but these international gems didn’t come cheap, and you’d have been lucky

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

NPR

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The quartet, known colloquially as Goat Rodeo, jammed out from four different homes in this Tiny Desk quarantine performance.

Goldmine

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Few bands have ever been forced to overcome as much tragedy and adversity as Lynyrd Skynyrd. Taking their name from Leonard Skinner, a gym coach at the high school the original members attended — and a man known as a strict disciplinarian given his d

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.

BN1 Magazine

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For those of you who haven’t listened to Creeping Jean’s music, from the band name alone you could be forgiven for imagining a sound that is quietly tiptoeing out of the shadows. You’d be wrong. With soaring melodies counterbalancing guitar riffs lik

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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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