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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

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PUP frontman onstage with his guitar Matilda

PUP’s new single Matilda will make you weep for your first guitar

By Matt Parker published

Hold ‘em close, if you got ‘em – the Canadian punks’ latest tells the tear-jerking story of a once-loved guitar, abandoned to the closet

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Jim Root of Slipknot performs in concert at the Ericsson Globe Arena on February 21, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden

From effervescent funk to chaotic, full-throated nu-metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published

Usher in the weekend with playlist-bolstering new songs from Slipknot, Foals, PUP, Nilüfer Yanya, Korn, Camp Cope, Rolo Tomassi and more

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Why Canada is home to some of the world's most exciting hard-rock guitar players

By Adam Kovac published

The Dirty Nil, Monster Truck, David Wilcox and PUP offer a guided tour of the Canadian six-string scene

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Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and Matt Skiba of Blink 182 perform during the 2017 Life is Beautiful Festival on September 22, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

From heavy metal earworms to cathartic, shout-along pop-punk: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche published

On tap this week are awesome new tracks from Gojira, John Petrucci, Bully, Avatar and more

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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

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