Rig Rundowns

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/amyl-and-the-sniffers-2025 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Australian punks Amyl and the Sniffers have had a pretty good year. In October 2024, they released their third full-length, Cartoon Darkness, and opened a run of North American shows for Foo Fighters. This year, they warmed up the stage for the Offs...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/better-lovers Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Tuning up for their own tour that starts this week, the loud ’n’ heavy merchants from Buffalo show PG’s Perry Bean how they apply the hot sauce. In Better Lovers, guitarists Jordan Buckley and Will Putney, plus bassist Stephen Micciche, go heavy and strange—a co...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/keith-urban Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The muti-Grammy winning country guitar hero is going sans pedalboard this time around as he cranks up on stages across the country. New Zealand’s number one country guitar export—and November 2024 Premier Guitar cover model—Keith Urban rolled into Cincinnati’s Riv...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/queens-of-the-stone-age-troy-van-leeuwen Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Fresh off a substantial break and a live acoustic recording from Paris’ infamous catacombs, hard-rock titans Queens of the Stone Age stormed back to life this spring with an American tour, including back-to-back nights in Boston at Fen...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/sol-philcox-littlefield Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Vintage Fenders, Gibsons, and Gretsches get the job done for one of Nashville’s veteran studio players. Trusted session guitarist Sol Philcox-Littlefield, known for his work with Luke Combs, Tim McGraw, Kelsea Ballerini, and Elle King, among many other...

Full Camera Gear Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/camera-gear Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Premier Guitar has been producing the Rig Rundown for more than 15 years. After over 700* episodes, the list of video equipment and accessories has been extensive. Longtime host & PG videographer Perry Bean walks through the cameras and audio gear curr...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/kaleo Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Icelandic blues rockers Kaleo released their fourth full-length LP, Mixed Emotions, on May 9 via Elektra. To celebrate the album in their adopted hometown, they threw a party at American Legion Post 82 in East Nashville. Some of the band’s gear had already been shipped...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dann-huff Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The all-star producer invites John Bohlinger to his home studio for a glimpse of his most treasured gear. Veteran producer and behind-the-scenes guitar superstar Dann Huff released his debut solo album, When Words Aren’t Enough, on May 30, but his career began long...

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/poison-the-well Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Last August, metalcore giants Poison the Well gave the world a gift: They announced they were working on their first studio album in 15 years. They unleashed the first taste, single “Trembling Level,” back in January, and set off on a spring North American tou...

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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...