Weekly Music Roundup: February 10, 2012 | Guitar World

This was a relatively quiet week for new music -- well, unless you count new albums from Van Halen and Paul McCartney.

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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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