Rig Rundowns

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/fontaines-dc-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Irish post-punk band’s three guitarists go for Fairlane, Fenders, and a fake on their spring American tour. We caught up with guitarists Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley from red-hot Dublin indie rock outfit Fontaines D.C. for a Rig Rundown in 2023, but...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/umphreys-mcgee-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Axe-wielders Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss take us through their current gear garages. It’s been just over 10 years since we had legendary South Bend, Indiana, jam band Umphrey’s McGee on Rig Rundown, so when we saw that they were coming to play at Na...

Dunable Guitars Tour: https://youtu.be/TsQXn4qIFyA Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Two guitars, two amps, and two people is all it takes to bring the noise. The day before they played the coveted Blue Room at Third Man Records in Nashville, the Washington, D.C.-based garage-punk duo Teen Mortgage released their debut record, Devil Ultrasonic Dream. Not a bad couple of d...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/charlie-worsham Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The country artist and session weapon packed a range of acoustics for some recent studio time. Charlie Worsham was just wrapping up some tracking down at Sony Studios in Nashville when PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with him for a look at what tools he packs fo...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/darkside Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Guitarist Dave Harrington concedes that while there are a few mile markers in the music that he and musician Nicolas Jaar create as Darkside, improvisation has been the rule from day one. The experimental electronic trio’s latest record, Nothing, which released in Fe...

Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Win Guitar Gear: https://bit.ly/GiveawaysPG The Austin-based guitarist sticks with a tried-and-true combo of American guitars and British amps. If you’ve been on the path of this spring’s Rhett Schull/Zach Person tour, you’ve been treated to one of the coolest rock ’n’ roll double bills criss-crossing North America this year. Person, who...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/my-morning-jacket Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The legendary Louisville rockers brought tons of vintage tone tools on the road this year. My Morning Jacket’s Is, their 10th album, released on March 21, and as we reported in our feature on the band in our May print issue, it showcased a band exercising th...

Stillwater Strong Relief: https://www.stillwaterstrong.org/ Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/rhett-shull Rhett Shull’s a busy guy. Between being one of the most prolific YouTubers in the guitar sphere, working as a trusted hired gun, and creating his own original music, including last year’s EP The Early Days, he’s an avid cyclist. Just a week before we met up with R...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/vundabar Visit Grimey's: https://www.grimeys.com/ A pair of Fender amps and a custom-built Baranik helped the Boston band’s guitarist come back from a broken arm. When Brandon Hagen broke his arm a few years ago, his life changed in an instant. He’d been fronting Boston indie rock outfit Vundabar since 2013, and suddenly, he was unabl...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/shovels-and-rope Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Teamwork makes the dream work for the Charleston, South Carolina, twosome, who trade off multi-instrumental duties throughout their sets. Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst have been making music as Shovels & Rope since 2008. The husband-and-wife duo from...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/phantogram Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Along with contemporaries like MGMT and Passion Pit, Greenwich, New York, duo Phantogram’s experiments crosspollinating hip-hop, indie, and punk rock helped cement and elevate a new era of electronic-influenced alt-rock and indie music. At the start of the 2010s, y...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/marty-friedman Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Japan-based shredder brings his current roadshow to life with the help of his tech, Alan Sosa. Marty Friedman, the ex-Megadeth guitarist and celebrated mixologist of heavy metal and Japanese music, released his latest solo record, Drama, in April 2024. Last...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/paul-moak Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Grammy-nominated session guitarist, producer, mixer, and engineer Paul Moak stays busy on multiple fronts. Over the years he’s written, played, produced and more for TV sessions (Pretty Little Liars, One Tree Hill) and artists including Third Day, Leeland, and the B...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-jesus-lizard-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube When the Jesus Lizard released their seventh studio record, Rack, last September, it ended a 26-year hiatus between recordings, and lovers of raucous, steely rock music around the world rejoiced. As guitarist Duane Denison told PG’s Nick Millevoi in our...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/mj-lenderman Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The fast-rising indie-rock outfit shows how they bring their varied 4-piece string section to life on their recent tour. Last year’s Manning Fireworks was a breakout moment for Asheville, North Carolina’s MJ Lenderman, which is both the name of the band and the a...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dweezil-zappa-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The shredder and son of legendary artist Frank Zappa gives a tour of his up-to-date gear, including a complex stereo switching system, four racks of pedals, and some of his father’s favorite guitars. Dweezil Zappa was always going to end up being an incredi...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/oni Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Oni’s guitar duo cover 16 strings between them with a pair of Neural Quad Cortexes and some choice patches. Jared Dines had been writing for Canadian metalcore outfit Oni—fronted by Jake Oni—for a few years before Jake invited Dines to join him onstage. Dines had just two...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/la-lom Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Los Angeles League of Musicians—LA LOM for short—brought the vintage vibe with them on the road last year. It wasn’t long ago that LA LOM—guitarist Zac Sokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner, and percussionist Nicholas Baker—were cutting their teeth together as the house b...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chat-pile Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The fast-rising Okies use solid-state amp heads, baritone guitars, and a bit of Peavey magic to bring their nightmare-rock to life. Oklahoma City sludge rockers Chat Pile have had a busy few years. Their 2022 LP, God’s Country, broke them internationally, and their...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/whores-2024 Visit Eastside Music Supply: https://eastsidemusicsupply.com/ Since forming in 2010, Atlanta noise rockers Whores had only released one LP, 2016’s Gold.—until this year. Eight long years later, their new full-length, WAR., dropped in April, and Whores celebrated by tearing across the country and blasting audiences with the...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/alan-parsons-live-project Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Jeff Kollman is a lifelong gigging guitarist whose resume stretches from Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes to Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Since 2017, he’s been performing with famed engineer, producer, and songwriter Alan Parsons, who worked on Abbey R...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/rob-mcnelley Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Rob McNelley spends a lot of time at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville. When he says, “I live here,” he’s only half kidding. McNelley has recorded with country superstars like Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Churc...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-fearless-flyers Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Back in March 2022, we caught up with Cory Wong in the middle of an international tour to film a Rig Rundown. This time around, we found Wong with his Fearless Flyers pals sticking in one spot, at Cory Wong’s Syncopated Summer Camp. The four-day, four-nigh...

IDLES 2021 Rig Rundown: https://youtu.be/ZyofmA3bJk4 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Between 2016 and 2024, Bristol outfit IDLES have gone from being snarling, post-punk underdogs to being snarling, post-punk champions. Their debut LP, Brutalism, was an immediate hit, and since then they’ve turned out a string of full-length records that have expanded their creative voc...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/sturgill-simpson You might think alt-country veteran Sturgill Simpson would need no introduction by this point in his career, but this year, he set out to reintroduce himself to the world—as Johnny Blue Skies. That’s the moniker he created for his new record, Passage du Desir, which was released in July on High Top Mountain. Simpson p...