Mike Huguenor

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Alvvays

How Alvvays harnessed the “glorious, devastating” power of truly dimed guitar amps, slacker tunings and Tom Verlaine on new album Blue Rev

By Mike Huguenor published

What’s the key to finding the right guitar tone? For Toronto indie rockers Molly Rankin and Alec O’Hanley, it’s pretty simple: crank up the amps

Doug Martsch and his pedalboard

Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch reveals what’s on his pedalboard

By Mike Huguenor published

Why hook up one booster to your 'board when you can have three? Martsch explains all...

Steve Sladkowski and Stefan Babcock of Pup perform at The Roundhouse on October 14, 2022 in London, England.

Pup on how the unraveling of an indie-punk guitar institution began with a Rhodes piano

By Mike Huguenor published

Brains melted by the piano’s potential, the Canadian stalwarts went all in on a guitar album full of regrettable choices that turned out to be genius powermoves

Built To Spill's Doug Martsch: “Music needs to be pleasant to the brain but also challenging“

By Mike Huguenor published

20 years on, Built To Spill frontman and guitarist Doug Martsch reflects on Keep It Like A Secret

Chelsea Wolfe

Chelsea Wolfe: "Birth of Violence is a really f**ked-up version of an American folk record"

By Mike Huguenor published

The enigmatic singer-songwriter on her haunting new album and how it was recorded almost entirely on a Taylor 416ce

PUP's Stefan Babcock and Steve Sladkowski discuss bizarre time signatures, and how they made one of 2019's best punk albums

By Mike Huguenor published

“If the song doesn’t sound good with the four of us playing it at the jam space, it’s not a good song,” Babcock tells GW

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Talk New Album, 'Flying Microtonal Banana'

By Mike Huguenor published

On flying microtonal banana the Australian psych-rock band open up the space between notes and expands the tonal landscape of rock.

San Diego Instrumental Upstarts CHON Continue Breaking Rules with 'HOMEY'

By Mike Huguenor published