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 Riverbend Music Center last month, so John Bohlinger and the Rig Rundown team drove up to meet him. Urb...
Jul 09, 2025•50 min
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 Fenway’s MGM Music Hall. Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/queens-of-the-...
Jul 02, 2025•44 min
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 others, was at Nashville’s FrontStage Studios for some recording work recently, and he invited PG’s John ...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 31 min
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 currently being used to bring you in-depth looks at your favorite artist's rigs. You'll see how Chris an...
Jun 25, 2025•5 min
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 to Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where the official release show took place on May 10, but “Kentucky Fried...
Jun 25, 2025•34 min
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 before that. He’s been making records and playing guitar for roughly 50 years, working with everyone...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 43 min
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 tour during which they played their debut record, The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation, in ...
Jun 04, 2025•37 min
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May 29, 2025•29 min
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 we felt bad missing bassist Conor “Deego” Deegan III, so we’ve been waiting for the lads to make th...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 15 min
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 Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in early April, we figured it was time to reconnect. Guitarists Jake Cinn...
May 14, 2025•44 min
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 days for a young band. PG’s Chris Kies caught up with guitarist and vocalist James Guile at the Blue ...
May 07, 2025•26 min
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 for a recording gig. Worsham had with him some of his most treasured acoustics, electrics, mandolins, ...
May 01, 2025•57 min
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 February on Matador, was the first to feature new percussionist Tlacael Esparza. Taking the record on ...
Apr 23, 2025•50 min
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 is based in Austin, put out his second full-length record, Let’s Get Loud, in March 2024, and it was...
Apr 16, 2025•43 min
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 their classic strengths as well as newfound vision and curiosity. Helmed by superstar producer Brendan...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 18 min
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 Rhett at Eastside Bowl in Madison, Tennessee, for this Rig Rundown, he was slated to ride a 100-mile ...
Apr 02, 2025•43 min
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 unable to do the things he’d built his life around. Recovery came, in part, in the form of a custom guita...
Mar 26, 2025•53 min
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 South Carolina specialize in rootsy, bluesy rock, Americana, and alt-country, but they don’t confine...
Mar 19, 2025•28 min
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, you’d be hard-pressed to find a college radio station or dorm-room playlist that didn’t include a Pha...
Mar 12, 2025•39 min
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 month, PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with Friedman before his show at the Basement in Nashville to ...
Mar 05, 2025•31 min
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 Blind Boys of Alabama. But most recently he’s worked with Heart and Ann Wilson and Tripsitter. PG’s J...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 16 min
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 feature story, the key to the album’s vitality—and reviving the band’s brutal sound—was simple: “Pra...
Feb 20, 2025•42 min
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 actual name of singer and guitarist Jake Lenderman, who also plays in the band Wednesday. The record ...
Feb 19, 2025•58 min
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 incredible guitarist. His dad, Frank Zappa, is celebrated as one of the most talented and creative guitaris...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 14 min
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 days to learn the entire set before rehearsals began. But Eric Palmer can one-up him. He was techin...
Jan 30, 2025•27 min
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 band at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, playing poolside for guests. Now, with eight EPs and a full...
Jan 29, 2025•25 min
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 critically acclaimed 2024 follow-up, Cool World, solidified them as one of the most exciting heavy b...
Jan 09, 2025•53 min
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 their maelstrom of massive, sledge-hammering rock ’n’ roll. The day after their gig at Cobra Nashville,...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
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 Road, Dark Side of the Moon, and a host of other records that you’ve probably owned for decades. It s...
Dec 11, 2024•25 min
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 Church, Luke Combs, and more, and he’s performed with Wynonna Judd, Delbert McClinton, Bob Seger, and Lee...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 34 min
