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

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

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

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.

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

Future Music

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If you asked 100 music fans to name a grime artist, we’d hazard a guess that almost all would name an MC. The vocalist is the public face of the sound, but the genre is underpinned by a sprawling, web of players supporting the figureheads: DJs, produ

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

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.

The Independent

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In recent years, the music industry has seen a growing trend of very public copyright lawsuits against popular artists. Although Ed Sheeran just won his court battle over his hit 2017 single “Shape of You”, this is not the first time the singer-song

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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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

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

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

Goldmine

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Since the late 1990s, the “Now That’s What I Call Music!” franchise has almost single-handedly kept compact disc sales from completely falling off the ledge. The concept is a simple one. Each album compiles a roster of current hit songs into a single

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

The Guardian

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Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp and always danceable

Classic Rock

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In September 2019, two of America’s most distinctive rock singers died within two days of each other. Ric Ocasek, leader of The Cars, had been as hip as they come, a new-wave icon and innovator. Eddie Money, by contrast, had never really been fashion

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

Goldmine

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Champions of the Tottenham Sound. Some 17 Top 40 hits in the U.S. between 1964 and 1967. The closest rivals to The Beatles during the heady early days of the British Invasion. The first band to tour the U.S. in their own chartered airplane. More appe

Scootering

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The other of the pair was The Truth, who formed after the original incarnation of Nine Below Zero had, at the time, run their course. Dennis's career started off in South London under the name of Stan's Blues Band, building themselves a following on

Goldmine

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In the annals of Southern Rock — that particular genre defined as much by the grit, growl and sheer verbosity of its music as much as by its native origins — the Outlaws were destined to be a minor-league team for the most part, often overshadowed by

Choice Magazine

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ALTHOUGH THEY weren’t the group to fuse traditional folk music and rock – Fairport Convention’s Liege and Lief is widely regarded as the key breakthrough album in that regard – Steeleye Span were by far the most successful. By focussing on rhythm, th

Guitar Player

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OVER THE COURSE of more than 50 years, Yes have survived lineup changes that would have done in lesser bands. Certainly, the 2015 death of founding bassist Chris Squire was a major blow to the long-running British prog-rock act. Squire was the only b

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

Los Angeles Times

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Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday. He was 84. His publicist, Victoria Lord, confirmed his death to

NPR

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With Herb Alpert, Moss presided over one of the industry's most successful independent labels with hits by the Carpenters, the Police, Janet Jackson, Carole King, Janet Jackson and hundreds of others.

Guitar Techniques

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Prior to the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020, Canadian progressive rock band Rush had enjoyed a 40-plus year career that saw them headline countless stadiums, sell millions of records, and influence a new generation of prog rockers. Although they

NPR

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Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.

Country Life

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THE date was set for Thursday, April 26, 1973. The invitations arrived in the form of a first-class Great Western Railway ticket. The ticket was clipped on boarding the train, known back in the day as a ‘football special’—a Pullman hired specifically