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“We tell our guitar techs we’re sorry profusely. I feel horrible for making their lives miserable”: Mark Holcomb on how Periphery harnesses super-heavy guitars for a super-heavy album that takes djent to a dark place (opens the original)
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There comes a point in every long-running band’s career when the unpredictable becomes, well, predictable. For progressive metal titans Periphery, who over the past decade and a half have defined modern djent through a series of records bearing Roman numerals (Periphery I through V), that moment arrived when the group’s members began plotting their newest album. “We were on tour in Europe, and we all started saying we didn’t want to do another numbered record,” guitarist Mark Holcomb says. “That
“People will forget everything else about us except that we were on that show”: Patrick Simmons recalls the time the Doobie Brothers were stars of the small screen (opens the original)
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The groundbreaking 1970s ABC sitcom What’s Happening!! followed the adventures of three Black teenagers – Raj, Dwayne and Rerun – as they navigated school life, adolescence and romantic pursuits in Watts, Los Angeles. One of the series’ more memorable storylines unfolded in a 1978 two-part episode, Doobie or Not Doobie, in which the Doobie Brothers returned to Jefferson High School (portrayed as Patrick Simmons’ alma mater) to perform a concert – only to discover that Rerun has been coerced into
“His death was such a shock. I met him before he joined the Pretenders – he had actually talked to me about playing with the band”: How the Pretenders emerged from tragedy with new guitarist Robbie McIntosh (opens the original)
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The start of the the 1980s saw the dazzling rise of the Pretenders. Led by American expat Chrissie Hynde, the dynamic British rock ’n’ roll quartet issued a one-two punch of albums, Pretenders (1980) and Pretenders II (1981), that featured memorable hits such as Stop Your Sobbing, Brass in Pocket, Kid, and Talk of the Town. A former rock critic, Hynde quickly established herself as a crafty songwriter and a captivating singer, and she was aided by an ace band that included drummer Martin Chamber
“My hands just wouldn’t work... There was no way I could play the guitar”: You can’t keep a Stray Cat down – the triumphant return of Brian Setzer (opens the original)
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Brian Setzer is looking forward to a summer full of motorcycle riding, and when he’s not on his bike he’s amped up to hit the road with the Stray Cats. While that might not sound exactly newsworthy, it was only a few months ago that the 67-year-old guitarist couldn’t even tie his shoe, much less work a throttle or a vibrato bar. Last October, Setzer was forced to cancel the Stray Cats’ fall U.S. tour as a result of a debilitating autoimmune disease that left him unable to play guitar – or do muc
“Alex Lifeson went off on loose-limbed benders, taking madcap detours and stretching out phrases just to see where they’d land”: Rush deliver the thrill of mastery at Madison Square Garden – live review (opens the original)
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There is a distinct difference between watching a band work through a setlist and that rare experience of witnessing virtuosos caught up in pure, unadulterated joy. On night one (7.28.26) of their four-night stand at Madison Square Garden, Rush delivered two-and-a-half hours of the latter – a rapturous jubilee that felt less like a choreographed arena rock show and more like master musicians kicking back and letting it rip – simply because they can. From the opening swells of Xanadu, the energy
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