In 2024, guitar rigs are governed by a strict set of commandments: thine pedalboard must be tidily wired and full of beautiful artwork; thou shalt use tube amps (or at least an expensive amp modeler); ...

And at the heart of it all was Smith’s electric guitar — raw, textural, and often deliberately “wrong.” As he told Guitar Player in our September 1992 issue, it all has to do with how he hears music — ...

The Twilight Sad have returned with a new song—their first in seven years—and it features the Cure’s Robert Smith on guitar. The band’s core duo of vocalist James Graham and multi-instrumentalist Andy ...