General/Solo
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Truth Hurts track “Naked” for #AllLivesMatter, produced by John
Truth Hurts - who was supposed to sing some of Ratiug and with whom John has been working since 2010 - has released a track for the #AllLivesMatter campaign, produced by John and featuring Joe Young. It's basically singing and freestyling over "Glowe", but now it's called "Naked".
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A lengthy interview with John on Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor caught up with John and spoke to him about the Trickfinger LP, his views of the world, stance on performing and how his most interesting music experiment to date came to be.
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An extensive interview with John on making After Below for Groove magazine
Recording enthusiasts? You're going to love this. John elaborates on making the opening track for his first full-length release as Trickfinger. This is the English version of the feature from the May 2015 issue of Groove (Germany).
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Black Knights’ Almighty available for pre-order now
As of today, Black Knights' second collab album with John acting as their producer, The Almighty, is available for pre-order. It's out on June 16th.
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Happy 45th birthday to John!
Today is the 5th of March 2015. And this is our traditional, 11th instance of the “Happy birthday to John†news item. You can do what we have been doing since pretty much the dawn of time and leave some birthday wishes. Happy birthday, John!
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Guitar Techniques March 2015 featurette +Total Guitar and Rolling Stone clippings
Guitar Techniques for March 2015 has a four-page featurette on John's acoustic playing; accompanied by what seems to be a never-before-seen photo from his All Tomorrow's Parties acoustic set ten years ago. Elsewhere, Rolling Stone mentions taking the iconic cover photo of RHCP in the nude back in 1992, and Total Guitar, for its 20th anniversary, recalls that one time when John was their first guest editor.
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An exclusive interview with Rugged Monk from the Black Knights
In this exclusive interview; Wojtek Sarnecki, a music journalist from Warsaw, Poland discusses Medieval Chamber and The Almighty with Rugged Monk of the Black Knights. The MC reveals how it feels to be a black knight, how the hip-hop collab with John came to be and what are we to expect from them in the future.
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Dewa Budjana’s guitar museum to include John’s autographed guitar
Photos of John with Indonesian musician Dewa Budjana have been popping in a lot of places recently. Turns out, there's an amazing story behind them - John's autographed guitar will be among those displayed in Budjana's upcoming Museum Gitarku in Ubud, on Bali.
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John is releasing an album on April 7th, as Trickfinger
John is releasing an acid house album on April 7th, under the moniker Trickfinger. You can listen to the opening track, After Below, preview the cover art and, of course, pre-order the CD and/or vinyl via Amoeba!
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Another new Black Knights song, Shadows of a Panther
Black Knights have released yet another new song produced by John on Record Collection Music. This time it's Shadows of a Panther and you can listen to it in a variety of formats, as well as grab the instrumental version.
