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Yvette Young just played with a pick live for the first time ever
By Janelle Borg published
The fingerstyle master debuted her picking technique and emo guitar chops at Bonnaroo's Emo Superjam

“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
By Andrew Daly published
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

"We wanted something smaller, easy to use, no Bluetooth app, no hidden menus – just turn knobs, make noise, play guitar…" Watch Yvette Young blow our minds with the new pedals from Universal Audio
By Scott Rowley published
Video We went to Universal Audio's HQ for the launch of their new reverb, delay and compression units, and James Santiago and Yvette Young demonstrated how they captured the Black Dog sound in a box

They're one of Yvette Young's favorite bands and influenced a generation of math-rock guitarists – now cheap guitar enthusiasts Enemies are back because their music "never seemed to die"
By Andrew Daly published
The Irish instrumentalists on their surprise reunion after seven years away, using a B.B. King Lucille model for math-rock and why they almost stopped playing guitar entirely when the band folded

Nita Strauss and Yvette Young once traded signature guitars – but found each others’ designs damn-near unplayable
By Matt Parker published
The swap may not have worked out for them but Strauss says it made her feel good about the health of the guitar industry

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”
By Jenna Scaramanga published
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
By Michael Astley-Brown published
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

Covet reveal tap-happy new single Firebird, the first taster from forthcoming album Catharsis
By Matt Parker published
Yvette Young returns with a new song and full-length due this April

Willow on her quest to solo like St. Vincent, getting two-hand tapping lessons from Yvette Young and why her latest album is a love letter to rock music
By Amit Sharma published
Following her guitar-heavy creative reinvention, Willow traces her six-string journey so far, her love of heavy music “from Smashing Pumpkins to Lamb of God” and how she hopes to make “women and girls of color feel accepted” in the rock world through her music
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