Mike Huguenor
Latest articles by Mike Huguenor
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
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...
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: "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
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