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Random music news for Monday, January 27, 2025
Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? It matters if authorities are going to regulate it. Moving to music news for January 27, 2025...
ajournalofmusicalthings.com
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Pure escapism: The musician Donald Fagen called “the alien in my bedroom”
Donald Fagen’s unique perspective on the world formed years before he started Steely Dan with Walter Becker. His cynical outlook and adulation of the...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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Linkin Park Charts A Brand New No. 1 Single
Linkin Park’s comeback era is turning out to be just as huge as many fans predicted it would be. The band’s first album...
forbes.com
- 30+ days ago
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“I’d no idea”: The Pink Floyd song David Gilmour wasn’t comfortable with
When David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in late 1967, he had a mountain to climb. Not only was he drafted in to help his friends circumvent...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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The Grateful Dead’s four greatest songs, according to Elvis Costello
Rock music is very much painted as a cutthroat business where it’s every man for himself, but the truth behind some of its biggest...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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"This faithful recreation replicates the look and feel of this legendary synthesizer, inside and out": Someone's built a full-sized Lego Minimoog, and it's so good that it might go into production
A Lego enthusiast and electronic music fan has built a stunning full-sized Moog Minimoog from the toy bricks, and impressed Lego so much that the...
musicradar.com
- 30+ days ago
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“The river was flooding – the water was flowing so fast it created a whirlpool. I was sitting in an innertube, floating in a circle and that walkdown came to me”: Riff inspiration can strike in the strangest places – just ask William “Billy” King Reynolds
Inspiration can strike a songwriter at the damnedest of time s. That’s certainly been true for William “Billy” King Reynolds, guitarist-vocalist for...
guitarworld.com
- 30+ days ago
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“Someone without peer”: Rick Rubin on the artist no one could compete with
The one job of any producer is trying to pick out one element of an artist that no one else can. There’s a certain...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary shows parallels of the 70s and today - TownLift, Park City News
PARK CITY, Utah — Film director Kevin Macdonald and Co-Director/Editor Sam Rice-Edwards intriguingly slice together footage never seen before from...
townlift.com
- 30+ days ago
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“Never go into a studio again”: The song that made Linda Ronstadt retire
Most artists should get the chance to call their own shots when it comes to bowing out. Even though there have been countless bands that...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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Timothée Chalamet Makes ‘Saturday Night Live’ History Amid “A Complete Unknown” Acclaim
Fans are hoping to see Timothée Chalamet break out his Bob Dylan impersonation as SNL's host and musical guest tonight.The post Timothée...
americansongwriter.com
- 30+ days ago
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Watch Adam Granduciel, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, & More Cover Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks At 50th Anniversary Tribute
Earlier this week Timothée Chalamet was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. He’ll host and...
stereogum.com
- 30+ days ago
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Have you got an old cassette player at home? You might want to try this.
I think I have some cassette players around the house somewhere, but I can’t be sure. I haven’t needed one for years. But...
ajournalofmusicalthings.com
- 30+ days ago
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Roland launch two new V-STAGE Performance Keyboards at NAMM 2025
Music production manufacturer Roland has launched two new specialist performance keyboards. Created with professional stage musicians in mind, the...
mixmag.net
- 30+ days ago
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Five overlooked but fabulous 1970s new wave songs worth hearing again
New Wave followed on from punk rock in the 1970s. The definition gets a bit blurred at time s. The way I saw it new...
audiophix.com
- 30+ days ago
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Les Paul TV Special (serial no. 37330)
Steve Miller received this guitar from Leslie West of the Vagrants and Mountain in 1967 or 1968. It was originally painted a pale yellow that Gibson...
metmuseum.org
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Classical music news - January 2025 Obituaries
Our summary of those the classical music world has lost this month...
classicalmusicdaily.com
- 30+ days ago
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“When I read stories about guys who snorted everything they had, I said, ‘That‘ll never happen to me.’ But in the end I blew 20 million”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s spectacular 1980s fall and rise
It’s January 1980 and Aerosmith are playing Reefer Head Woman from their new Night In The Ruts album at the Civic Centre in Maine. It’...
loudersound.com
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DJ Unk, 'Walk It Out' rapper, dies at 43
The hip-hop artist collaborated with the likes of André 3000, Sean Kingston, T-Pain, and many more. DJ Unk, the Atlanta hip-hop artist behind the 2006 hit "Walk...
ew.com
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“A really painful song about how hard it is to lose friends. When I sing it, I think of John Belushi”: We asked Blues Brothers star Dan Aykroyd to give us his 11 favourite blues records, and he delivered
Ever since donning the iconic black hat, suit and shades of Elwood Blues in John Landis’ 1980 blockbuster The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd has been...
loudersound.com
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Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Amyl and The Sniffers "U Should Not Be Doing That"
Good Morning! This week on Toyah and Robert Fripp’s Sunday Lunch series, they’re taking on Amyl and The Sniffers’ “U Should Not Be...
brooklynvegan.com
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Take Old Speakers From Trash To Treasure With These Creative Ways To Repurpose Them
Old speakers are one of those things no one knows how to place a value on. Assuming they work, they're obviously worth something, and it...
housedigest.com
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1970 Vertigo Records part 3 (Uriah Heep)
After dedicating the previous review of Vertigo Records to Black Sabbath, in this article we remain with two more hard rock bands, and end with...
musicaficionado.blog
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“I Went Home and I Wept That Night”: The Emotional Bob Dylan Tribute to Woody Guthrie That Left Timothée Chalamet in Tears
Timothée Chalamet says performing this Bob Dylan song brought him to tears while filming "A Complete Unknown."The post “I Went Home and I...
americansongwriter.com
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Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall
David Bowie’s 1987 concert in West Berlin could be heard on the other side of the Wall in Eastern Germany, triggering a police crackdown on...
aljazeera.com
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“What makes you think they stay in tune?” Jeff Beck on his microtonal guitar approach and how he set up his Fender Stratocaster for precision pitch bending
Part of the beauty of Jeff Beck’s late-era electric guitar work is his combination of vibrato-arm pitch bending and left-hand string bends. Using...
guitarplayer.com
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4 One-Hit Wonders That Defined the Psychedelic Rock Era
These one-hit wonders did quite well in the psychedelic rock genre, and it's a shame they didn't get bigger.The post 4 One-Hit Wonders That Defined...
americansongwriter.com
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“I was dead against it… I have to say I was sulking for no reason”: the Depeche Mode classic that Martin Gore was opposed to, despite the fact he wrote it
Depeche Mode ended the 80s as one of the most successful bands of that decade, but everything was about to ramp up significantly. Their seventh...
loudersound.com
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“He looked at me and said, 'I can't teach you that.' So I said, ‘Then I can't take a music class!’” Buddy Guy on the one thing every guitarist needs to play the blues
Buddy Guy has some 70 years of experience as a blues guitarist and has played his electric guitar on stages all over the world . From the...
guitarplayer.com
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NAMM 2025: "More than an audio interface": Bitwig's Connect 4/12 interface packs hidden features that Bitwig Studio users will love
"More than just an audio interface": Bitwig launches its first hardware product at NAMM 2025 - YouTube Watch On NAMM 2025: One of the biggest surprises...
musicradar.com
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The song DMX wrote for your rage: “Some time s people want to feel worse”
DMX released his third album And Then There Was X in 1999 off the back of the successful It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot and...
hiphophero.com
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How Timothée Chalamet Learned to Channel Bob Dylan on Guitar
Larry Saltzman isn’t a guitar teacher by trade — he’s a high-end session pro who’s toured with Simon and Garfunkel, played in Saturday...
rollingstone.com
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“Walk into a strip joint and nine time s out of 10 you’ll hear this song. It brings tears to my eyes”: The chaotic story of Girls, Girls, Girls, the album that almost killed Motley Crue
Mötley Crüe helped put the 80s Sunset Strip glam metal scene on the map – and their fourth album, 1987’s Girls, Girls, Girls, took...
loudersound.com
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'It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley' Pays Tribute to One of the Greatest Singers Ever
It’s extremely hard not to gush over Jeff Buckley. An Adonis with an four-octave range, the singer-songwriter had the sensitivity of an early ’70s...
rollingstone.com
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“This is basically the single-coil equivalent of what Eddie Van Halen did when he wired a humbucker directly to the volume control on his Frankenstein guitar”: Why the Fender Esquire remains a stone-cold classic
It’s pretty damn cool that the very first commercially produced solidbody electric guitar, the Fender Esquire, can still kick serious butt today; you...
guitarworld.com
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'SNL': Watch Timothée Chalamet Perform Trio of Bob Dylan Songs
Timothée Chalamet, star of the 2024 Bob Dylan biopic Complete Unknown, debuted as Saturday Night Live musical guest by performing three Dylan tunes:...
rollingstone.com
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PRS Guitars Standard 24 Satin Demo | NAMM 2025
The PRS Standard 24 features many classic PRS specifications, including a 25” scale length, Pattern Thin neck with a 24-fret, 10” radius rosewood...
premierguitar.com
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Electro-Harmonix Pedals | NAMM 2025
EHX always brings some fresh goodies to NAMM and this year they showed us a trio of tone twisters. The most impressive unit had to...
premierguitar.com
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Andrew Garfield, Paul Mescal, Demi Moore & More Do Sabrina Carpenter’s "Please, Please, Please"
The stars of our Best Performances issue deliver their best dramatic rendition of Sabrina Carpenter's hit single....
wmagazine.com
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Watch IRON MAIDEN Crash A Polish Wedding And Play "Smoke On The Water" For Surprised Guests
"We'd had a few drinks beforehand and just thought, 'Oh, why not?'" On September 3, 1984, Iron Maiden unleashed Powerslave, their fifth studio album and...
metalinjection.net
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Micky Dolenz on Monkees being musical Marx Brothers: 'I'm told I had a great time '
Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing...
azcentral.com
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The Most Expensive Albums Ever Recorded in the 1970s: Were They Worth It?
These albums were some of the most expensive productions to come out of the 1970s. Do YOU think they were worth it?The post The...
americansongwriter.com
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“Delivering screaming leads to funky rhythms, and everything in between”: Guitarist and YouTuber Maxxxwell Carlisle teams up with Harley Benton for a budget-friendly, versatile signature model – the Guitar MAX Fusion
NAMM 2025: Budget champion Harley Benton has introduced a brand-new signature model – the Guitar MAX Fusion Signature – in collaboration with heavy...
guitarworld.com
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Bob Dylan Was ‘Very Paranoid’ While Appearing on ‘SNL’ According to Eric Idle
Timothée Chalamet will be pulling double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend, as both host and musical guest. Since the actor’s music...
cracked.com
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Les Paul vs. Telecaster: The Guitar Rivalry That Shaped the Sounds of Rock, Blues, and Metal
Two giants of the industry, two single-cut guitars, and a life time of unofficial rivalry....
ultimate-guitar.com
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“Aqualung got its share of bashings in the Southern USA. It created anger amongst those ultra-conservative Baptist types”: How Jethro Tull conquered America in the 70s and became rock’s unlikeliest superstars
It’s not quite Beatlemania, but the parallels are obvious. Eleven years after the Fab Four had made history at Shea Stadium, another British band...
loudersound.com
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10 Eddie Van Halen Facts You Need To Know - Dig!
Think you know everything about this iconic rock guitarist? Here some Eddie Van Halen facts that might surprise you Renowned for his virtuosity and...
thisisdig.com
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Lee Priest Talks Chris Bumstead’s Health and Retirement: ‘It’s Good to See People Get In & Get Out’
Lee Priest, known for his outspoken nature, is never shy when it comes to discussing some of the sport’s biggest stars. In a recent...
fitnessvolt.com
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How Glenn Danzig's cursed house became LA's strangest local landmark
In Los Feliz, a trendy Los Angeles neighborhood sitting at the base of Griffith Park, tree-lined streets hum with vintage shops, small bookstores, dive bars,...
sfgate.com
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Tsakalis AudioWorks Phonkify X and Mothership Tube Overdrive + Preamp Demos | NAMM 2025
The latest iteration of Tsakalis' expansive envelope filter is a pure funk machine. All the classic '70s-era sounds are packed in there, but with...
premierguitar.com
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