Metal Hammer UK

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A WILD AND unhinged amalgam of thuggish mathcore, explosive electronics and bug-eyed, glitchy noise, Frontierer’s music is obnoxiously thrilling and genuinely terrifying. As showcased on latest album Oxidized, the Scottish crew’s insane hybrid is the

Post Magazine

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In Search of ... (2001), an ambitious collision of funk, rock, hip hop and electronica, was the debut album from N.E.R.D., the band formed by the hugely successful production duo The Neptunes (aka Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) with childhood frien

AppleMagazine

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For this album-length follow-up to his 2019 EP Floor Seats, the Harlem-raised rapper A$AP Ferg has collaborated with such big names as Lil Wayne, Marilyn Manson and Nicki Minaj. The result is a confident-sounding release that wouldn’t seem unusual so

Stereophile

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THIS ISSUE: An Australian company aims to set standards for hi-fi. Phaenelagh “Nel” Lenard Burnett is an outlier in a most basic sense: She’s a woman who works in hi-fi. For the past several decades—essentially all her adult life—she has immersed her

NPR

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Irish singer/songwriter Hozier sits down with NPR Music's Bob Boilen to discuss the lifetime of listening that led to his new EP, Nina Cried Power, and what American blues means to him.

Stereophile

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I remember the exact moment I became an audiophile. It was 1954. I was 12 years old. My father’s friend, Mitch Rose, wanted to buy a “hi-fi set,” which was what they called them in those days. Mitch asked my father to go with him to help pick one out

Classic Rock

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FOR MORE NEWS: WWW.CLASSICROCKMAGAZINE.COM COPYRIGHT FUTURE 2019 MARKING THE EVENT’S 33rd anniversary, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Roxy Music, The Zombies, Radiohead and The Cure were among those inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame during las

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

Electronic Musician

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As an innovative move designed to highlight the sound of Focal monitors, Focal Naim America has created a range of playlists for Qobuz, TIDAL, Apple Music, and Amazon Music HD designed to showcase music ‘Mixed on Focal’ as it’s intended to be heard.

Future Music

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Very few musicians have commanded the same level of influence as Pharrell Williams. Flourishing both behind the boards and in front of the mic, Pharrell has made a name for himself as both a worlddominating artist and a hitmaking producer, earning le

Beat English

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For many years, Beat has been inspiring its readers not only with practical and musical topics, but above all with the tight integration of editorial content. From the very beginning, Beat has been about creating, about the structured building of ide

Saturday Star

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Up-and-coming DJ Mabore Jack Hopane, fondly known as Hopadinho SA, gives us a peek into his musical journey, from moving to the City of Gold in search of greener pastures, to sharing stages with acclaimedmusic sensations. The music star hailing from

The Big Issue

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Last week I heard a song called The King of Rome for the first time. It knocked me sideways. I immediately listened to it again, and then again. And then I started telling everybody to listen to it. It was released in 2012 so a number of the people I

India Today

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A number of mainstream music acts around the world have postponed the releases of their albums owing to the ongoing lockdown. Hindi hip-hop star Raftaar, however, decided to stick to his plan and put out his second full-length effort, Mr. Nair, in th

FHM Australia

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Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

Stereophile

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TAKE HEED! Unless marked otherwise, all letters to the magazine and its writers are assumed to be for possible publication. Please include your name and physical address. We reserve the right to edit for length and content. The interview with Twisted

New Zealand Listener

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Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner first encountered each other at high school. The then-Brian Finn, a boarder from Te Awamutu, was halfback in the Sacred Heart 1st XV with a lovely singing voice. The then-Tony Rayner was a day boy from Howick, who in his sin

Prog

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Where’s home? I’m in east Devon. Earliest prog memory? My brother bringing home Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, when I was 11. Listening to it while poring over the cover, it felt like a new world. First prog album you bought? I bought

Cowboys & Indians

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I t’s not easy to find classic country music, but through his top-rated television show and highly successful radio show, Perley Curtis is making it his mission to keep the traditional genre alive. Fans tune in to Perley’s Place weekly on RFD-TV to s

FHM Sweden

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Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

FHM South Africa

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Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

NPR

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Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert.

Future Music

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Music production is sometimes perceived as a largely technical exercise, a practice grounded in science and rationality. But for many of the most gifted producers, their relationship with the recording studio and its tools derives from a more enigmat

The Christian Science Monitor

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Even if live music venues are still shuttered, these standout albums from 2021 encourage joy – and contemplation.

The Independent

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In the same way Hoover came to represent all products that suck up dirt and Google every internet search function, it’s no exaggeration to say that Van Halen was a byword for all that is awesome about hard rock. Formed in Pasadena, California, in 197

Guitar Player

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DANIEL DONATO IS one of the freshest, most exciting young roots guitarists of recent years. He has played hundreds of shows with his Cosmic Country, while also performing the Allman Brothers Band repertoire with Trouble No More, alongside fellow youn

Electronic Musician

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One of Brooklyn-based experimental musician Daniel Lopatin's many projects, Oneotrix Point Never's music encompasses flowing electronics, ambient drones and forays into adventurous sampling. Basically, nothing is out of bounds, and that includes orch

NPR

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Watch the two musicians, nearly 50 years apart in age, talk about the pains of striking out on your own, the pulse of New York, and the role of the artist today. Plus about a hundred other ideas.

Post South Africa

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WITH each trip I make around the sun, I find my hearing loss getting progressively worse. I blame it on age as well as genes – both my parents were aurally challenged as they got on in years. I don’t want a hearing aid because losing some of the abil

Guitarist

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Brian McDonald spent more than a decade at Fender serving as marketing manager for the Jackson, Charvel and EVH brands when Eddie’s first products were launched. “EVH was a brand I helped launch [in 2007]. I was there from the beginning. Matt Bruck