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Chris Kies

Nashville

Multimedia Manager at Premier Guitar

I'm the Multimedia Manager @premierguitar magazine.

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  • 1 week ago | premierguitar.com | Chris Kies

    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 Room to find out how he builds the band’s bombastic guitar attack. Brought to you by D’Addario.

  • 1 week ago | premierguitar.com | Chris Kies

    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 Room to find out how he builds the band’s bombastic guitar attack. Brought to you by D’Addario.

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Kies

    9 hours agoWe tend to think of popes as people who are somehow elevated from the rest of us — a few steps up the ladder leading to God, perhaps. But Pope Francis, whose birth name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was often thinking of the common citizen, as heard in his comments about migrants, refugees and people …

  • 3 weeks ago | premierguitar.com | Chris Kies

    Alongside Nicolas Jaar’s electronics, Harrington creates epic sagas of sound with a team of fine-tuned pedalboards. 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.

  • 4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Kies

    The five most irritating guitar solos in classic rockDerek and the Dominos – ‘Layla’ A song’s riff and a solo are like two siblings. More often than not, the solo is always the older, stronger and more …

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ChrisKies
ChrisKies @ChrisK_PG
26 Mar 21

Just some of the beautiful things I saw in Savannah. #fbf #latergram #flashbackfriday #vacation @ Savannah, Georgia https://t.co/l9GoDDEzA8

ChrisKies
ChrisKies @ChrisK_PG
24 Dec 20

Guitar geeks, here's my top 10 @premierguitar #rigrundown moments including where I recount filming the first episode in August 2008, meeting @QueenWillRock guitarist @DrBrianMay, being wowed by @tmorello, going deaf with @sleep_official, and more: https://t.co/uFOGVOBHhQ

ChrisKies
ChrisKies @ChrisK_PG
14 Oct 20

This @premierguitar #rigrundown I hosted features the talented and charismatic @deepseadiverbnd captain Jessica Dobson: https://t.co/c6kBY0dT2o