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

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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“He was up for anything, Bon. His nickname was ‘Ronnie Roadtest’, a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, rootin’, tootin’ rock’n’roll soldier. That was his public image. It was true of him too. But at the same time he’d be the guy going round in the morning

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

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

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

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

UNCUT

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IN 2019, The National curated a “friends and family” covermount CD for Uncut, drawing together tracks that highlighted their healthy and productive relationships with other artists – including Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten and This Is The Kit. To accomp

NPR

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The best Live Sessions of 2021 feature performances from Japanese Breakfast, Samm Henshaw, Yola and many more.

Goldmine

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In 1967, The Fifth Estate stormed the Top 40 with “Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which peaked at No.11. Obscured by the fun, novelty-tinged cover of The Wizard of Oz classic was that the band were a versatile and powerful live act. Hailing from the

Goldmine

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THE CANADIAN QUARTET The Kings celebrate the 40th anniversary of their hit “Switchin’ to Glide,” which reached No. 43 in the U.S. in 1980, a lively song beginning with the line, “Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view.” Their D

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

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

Total Guitar

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The images emblazoned in pop-culture’s memory of Jimmy Page in his pomp are electric. The dragon-embroidered bell-bottoms and 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. The double-necked EDS-1275. The Telecaster and the violin bow. But just as Page changed elect

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

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.

Prog

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Tales From Topographic Oceans, 1973 Jon Anderson wanted “a calm sea of music” for Side Two of …Topographic Oceans, according to biographer Tim Morse. But nothing ever turned out so simple with this band. The opening passages are dreamy, but Howe can’

UNCUT

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“I work the seaways, the gale-swept seaways/Past shipwrecked daughters of wicked waters” UNIVERSAL AS hard as they swam against it, nostalgia always pulled The Beach Boys back. As we left them at the end-of-season cliffhanger of their last boxset, th

Guitar Player

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ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND fans of a certain age may remember Duane Betts as a teenager taking the stage to sit in with his father, Dickey, and the ABB in the mid ’90s. But 30 years later, the younger Betts has been around the block a few times, touring wi

Classic Rock

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Rising young Welsh rockers Florence Black close their shows with a sledgehammer version of Budgie’s best-known tune. “Budgie were awesome,” says the trio’s singer, Tristan Thomas. “They were one of the first heavy metal bands back in the day, they he

UNCUT

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The Stranglers’ driving force (1938-2022) “WE were immediately drawn to one another,” Hugh Cornwell recalled of first meeting fellow musician Jet Black in Guildford in 1974. “He had a singular sense of purpose that I identified with. He threw everyth

UNCUT

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The Stranglers’ driving force (1938-2022) “WE were immediately drawn to one another,” Hugh Cornwell recalled of first meeting fellow musician Jet Black in Guildford in 1974. “He had a singular sense of purpose that I identified with. He threw everyth

Audio Technology

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Justin Vernon, leader of the alt-folk band Bon Iver, called their 2016 album 22, A Million, “a new way of telling a story.” It was an understatement. 22, A Million was as experimental as it’s possible to get (short of going atonal), with tons of dist

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

Goldmine

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Marie Fredriksson, a singer for the Swedish duo Roxette, passed away on December 9, at the age of 61, after a 17-year battle with cancer. From 1989 through 1991, the duo had a half-dozen singles in the U.S. that reached either No. 1 or No. 2, beginni

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

NPR

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Justin Vernon of Bon Iver performed an intimate set featuring "Heavenly Father" and a cover of Leon Russell's "A Song For You."

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

Classic Rock

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Guns N’ Roses have nothing on Dawn After Dark – the 17-year gap that preceded Chinese Democracy pales next to the more than 30 years it has taken the British rockers to release their debut album, New Dawn Rising. The Birmingham-based band were part o

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