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Yvette Young’s fretboard wizardry was a wake-up call for modern guitar playing – but with her latest pivot, she’s making music to help emo kids go to sleep
Young is in her musician-artist-producer era – leaning into soundtracks, generating ideas with her signature Qi pedal, and reclaiming control of her career, as epitomized by her latest collaboration with Hatch: a suite of Emo Sound Baths
Yvette Young on how to buy a guitar, and why you should think twice before lending out your acoustic
The sometime teacher and modern-day math-rocker recounts the gear that’s made an impact – and gives us a rundown on her most-loved rig
Yvette Young almost quit making music before taking a radical solo turn – but she’s not done with Covet
Getting over her thoughts of quitting, Young has developed a glitchy sound “like a dying battery,” and moved away from technique-focused shredding to dream pop. However, don’t write off her math rock days just yet...
Yvette Young explains why she's rebooting her a solo career – and redefining her guitar playing along the way
Young is temporarily putting aside Covet to lean into different facets of her guitar playing, focusing less on virtuosity and more on melody-driven composition
“A bass overdrive gives me more control over which frequencies push forward when I want to take more risks”: Yvette Young spills the secrets of her pedalboard – and names the one stompbox she could play an entire show with
The Covet phenom's 'board is rigged for stereo, sequenced for experimentation, and makes us wonder if we've been missing a trick by not having a bass overdrive in our setup
Yvette Young: “I’m really optimistic about the future of guitar. It’s being used in a creative way and people don’t know all the cool sounds you can get from it”
One of the most original guitarists on the planet, combining innovation with accessibility on a new Covet album, Catharsis, Young explains why she’s the virtuoso who just “fell into” the guitar scene
Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound
Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life
From textured pop-punk to Americana that cuts deep: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
Whet your six-string appetite with irresistible new tunes from Covet, Inhaler, Meet Me @ The Altar, Vandenberg, FIDLAR, Jason Isbell and more
