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“Rick Rubin is one of the most inspirational guitar players of my childhood. It’s a curveball, isn’t it?!” Justin Hawkins names the 14 guitarists who shaped his sound
The Darkness frontman turned YouTube personality on why Keith Richards’ playing is underrated, what makes Eddie Van Halen’s solo blueprint so spectacular, and why guitarists who “make you feel like you want to grab a guitar and do it” are more important than any virtuoso
The Darkness’s Frankie Poullain: “If you go too posh with distortion, it gets too precise and nice. It’s got to be a bit nasty and a bit wrong”
The world’s last great hard-rock band with an advanced sense of humor are back with new album Motorheart. Bassist Poullain brings the pick and the thumb...
Justin Hawkins brands Plini “a bit boring”
Despite suggesting Plini’s act lacks “attitudinal edginess” – and advising he swaps his Strandberg for a low-slung Les Paul – the Darkness frontman does pay tribute to the virtuoso’s “staggering musicianship”
Justin Hawkins: “What?! Split harmonics on the bass?”
The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins reacts to the fast and furious licks of Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen of rock supergroup The Winery Dogs
The Darkness: “We just see how far we can get before the solos go flying off the edge of the cliff”
Guitarists Dan and Justin Hawkins talk Motorheart, a riff-rocking new record that’s dedicated to having fun – and, of course, sex robots
The Darkness's Dan Hawkins on his love for ABBA
How the Swedish pop icons rocked like Thin Lizzy and why their riffs are underrated
Justin Hawkins: "A note played with supreme confidence, no matter how wrong it is, will always be the right one"
The Darkness frontman and guitarist shares some six-string live tips and encourages us to embrace mistakes… and learn to drop-kick a Tortex pick, stat!
The Darkness deliver “immeasurable rock 'n' roll extravagance” with new single, Motorheart
Behold, the hard-rocking title track and lead single from the glam-rockers' forthcoming 7th studio album
