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‘The Bene Gesserit can kill with their voices. That’s what I try to do’: the musicians mining Dune for tunes

Iron Maiden, Fatboy Slim and Grimes have all made music inspired by Frank Herbert’s 1960s sci-fi epic. So what makes ‘Dunecore’ different to other interpretive genres?

The Guardian - UK

Sons Of Rock Legends Form Band 'The Effect' In Miami

Trev Lukather and Nic Collins form band The Effect, blending hard pop-rock and defying nepotism stereotypes in the music industry.

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“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard

What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand

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“Barely two days into the new year, I get a call from Steve Lukather”: Greg Phillinganes is back in Toto ahead of their North American tour

Drummer Shannon Forrest is also back in the fold

MusicRadar

“My idea was to merge The 1975 and Skrillex and make something between those two worlds”: SILK on the phenomenal success of his viral hit single Quiver

Hailed by the likes of Fred again.. and Disclosure, SILK’s emotive hybrid of tech house and pop merges melodic songcraft with irresistible, club-ready beats

MusicRadar

“We didn’t grow up on Christian music, we didn’t grow up in the church, we grew up with metal and the Hollywood club scene”: Stryper, Petra and the story of Christian AOR

From The Sweet Comfort Band and Petra to Stryper and beyond, this is the history of Christian melodic rock

Louder

”They called me about a week after Jeff Porcaro passed… they’d grown up together, they’d lost a blood brother, and suddenly the all-American West Coast band has a tea bag in it!” How Simon Phillips joined and left Toto

The multi-genre drummer spent over two decades with the band – but insists it was surprisingly easy to leave when the time came

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“Eddie Van Halen changed the game. I remember him telling me once, ‘Man, I didn’t mean to start all this madness’”: Steve Lukather on why he’s always championed melody above all else, and how that philosophy informed his new “unabashedly ‘80s” solo album

Returning with the triumphant new album Bridges, Steve Lukather reflects on the madness of shred, why Luke III is his Excalibur and why the melody and the song is all that counts

Guitar World

“The esteem in which his talent was held is reflected… Yet some of the most fascinating tracks here are by his pre-fame 60s bands”: Greg Lake’s Magical box set

7-disc compilation celebrates his solo endeavours in style

Louder

Olympic silver medalist Mone Inami wins first LPGA event at Toto Japan Classic

At the 2021 Summer Olympics, Inami beat Lydia Ko in a playoff for the silver medal on home soil.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Toto’s David Paich on the making of Africa: “We had fun with it like The Beatles did, made a loop, adding instruments one at a time, and then it just took off”

RECORDING WEEK 2023: He also says that “Keith Emerson was our Jimi Hendrix”

MusicRadar

"She went on several talk shows and said it was about her. But I can tell you that it wasn't": the real story behind Toto's Rosanna

Inspired by upcoming actress Rosanna Arquette - and John Bonham! - Toto knew Rosanna would be a hit the moment David Paich first played it on a piano

Louder

“Instead of the toy store, I wanted to go to the guitar store and play all the expensive guitars”: Steve Lukather shares his biggest gear hits and misses

The top sessioneer and Toto stringsman recounts his early six-string experiences, an epic deal on a rare Vox 12-string and why he hasn’t bought a guitar in 30 years…

Guitar World

A beginner’s guide to yacht rock in five essential albums

Yacht rock, soft rock – call it what you will. Here are five brilliant albums that define the genre in all its bearded, Hawaiian shirted glory

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Steve Lukather voices support for the ‘tone is in the hands’ camp: “There’s no magic guitar, just magic people”

The Toto hero says he's played through both Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck's rigs, and came to the same conclusion both times: he sounds like himself no matter what he plays through

Louder

Steve Lukather's Bridges: the closest we'll ever get to a new Toto album

Toto chaos from Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams and David Paich on Lukather's ninth solo album Bridges

Tribune News Service

Review: Ringo Starr rocks and boogaloos at his 2023 tour-opening concert with his All-Starr Band

SAN DIEGO — Talk about a fab time warp!

Louder

How Haken took their love of 80s prog and made Affinity

Yes' 90125, the Transformers cartoon soundtrack and Toto were just some of the influences for Haken's 2016 album Infinty

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Steve Lukather announces new solo album Bridges and it's gonna make Toto fans happy

"As Toto will never record another studio album, this is as close as we will get" - Steve Lukather

MusicRadar

Martin Miller: “Guitar players need to talk about intonation a lot more. We don’t tune our ears towards it because it is never a topic that is brought up in tuition”

The undisputed maestro of the epic YouTube guitar medley discusses his Ibanez signature model, Toto, and making his debut as a vocalist on his new solo album, Maze Of My Mind

Guitar World

Foxgear launches the Gurus Echosex 3º Steve Lukather Signature pedal, the “always-on” Echorec emulator that gives the Toto guitarist his secret sauce

“The Echosex 3° is the most important and used piece of gear I have,” says Lukather – and now you can stick one on your pedalboard, too

The Independent UK

Cornish carer dances 24 hours to Toto’s Africa again for food bank

Dean Pascoe said ‘never again’ after completing the feat in 2022, but has taken to the dancefloor once more – grabbing the attention of Toto the band.

Motorsport

Hamilton: F1 retirement talk from Button and Hill not "helpful”

Lewis Hamilton has countered suggestions from fellow Formula 1 world champions Jenson Button and Damon Hill that he could be heading for retirement, saying such comments are “never helpful.”

Newcastle Herald

Change in Anna Weatherup helps her find true voice

ANNA Weatherup can clearly remember being struck with a realisation when she walked off the set of The Voice nine years ago.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Political Pulse / Would legalized gambling pollute the clean image of Japanese sports?

A draft proposal by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (METI) to lift the ban on sports betting has caused a stir in Japan. While there are those who accept the idea that it will help revitalize the sports industry, others argue that such a move should not be rushed…

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