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Yvette Young on why choosing the guitar felt “magical” – and what it represents to her
After years of learning instruments her parents chose for her, Young explains how having the autonomy to choose her own instrument represented a sense of freedom
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
Yvette Young just played with a pick live for the first time ever
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
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
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"
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
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”
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
