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“It's cut so that you can have boobs and play guitar, which is so awesome”: Olivia Rodrigo raves about this guitarist's signature model – and reveals why she's adopted it as one of her go-to guitars

In 2016, Annie Clark, a.k.a St. Vincent, rolled out a game-changing signature with Ernie Ball Music Man that would forever change the face of guitar ergonomics

Guitar World

St Vincent live at Somerset House review: absurdity returns in full force

4/5 After playing it straight on her last visit to London, Annie Clark’s eccentric stage presence and theatrical personas made an entertaining comeback

Evening Standard

“People think that these are terrible machines but I’m gonna prove that they’re great”: St. Vincent on the retro Roland groovebox she used on All Born Screaming

Reverb visited the Grammy-winning artist and producer in the studio to hear about her production ethos and shoot a spontaneous synth jam

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“Any time I would see one, no matter what the condition was, I would just buy them”: St. Vincent on the retro entry-level guitar that inspired her Ernie Ball Music Man signature model

St. Vincent's now-iconic signature model was inspired by a '60s offset that was sold at Sears

Guitar World

The year's most creative album artwork

While the album cover may be less visible than it was in the age of the music megastore, it's still a vital part of the creative process. Here are our pick 2024's most inspired record sleeves.

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Paul McCartney is joined by Jack White and St Vincent for five-guitar pile-up in Mexico City

There are solos a-plenty on The End

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“I didn’t get it before because I was too scared to touch them”: St Vincent reveals how a gift from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready changed her mind about the Stratocaster

Who couldn’t love a Strat? Well, according to St Vincent, there’s the weight of pop-cultural history and that can be hard to bear

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St. Vincent channels something primal playing live music: 'It's kind of an exorcism for me'

As sweaty fans pushed up against one another, clutching their drinks and swaying to the music, Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, was being transported

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“The sounds of the records are kind of bad, right? But you could record it in a tin can and still feel the power of his guitar playing”: St. Vincent explains why Jimi Hendrix’s playing is fire, even if she doesn’t love the sound of his albums

During a deep dive into the songs that changed her life, St. Vincent also named a John Mayer track as “the worst song ever written”

Guitar World

“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde”: St Vincent brands John Mayer’s Daughters 'the worst song ever written'

"I hate it," says Annie Clark

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Which audio interfaces do the pros use?

We've taken a sniff around the studios of 9 production powerhouses and creators to see what's at the centre of their setups

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St Vincent adds UK and European dates to her All Born Screaming tour

St. Vincent reveals plans to expand All Born Screaming tour into October

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“The Taylor Swift Cruel Summer moment was an amazing testament to the incredible force of her fans”: St. Vincent on how the song she wrote with Taylor Swift became a huge hit four years later

The 2019 Swift and St. Vincent co-write Cruel Summer got a new lease of life when fans demanded its release as a single in 2023

Louder

Every St. Vincent album ranked from worst to best

The collected works of Annie Clark re-reviewed and ranked

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“Guitar’s versatility is unparalleled. But it’s also an instrument with a lot of baggage. We all know the tropes we’re trying to avoid”: St. Vincent on returning to real amps, stealing Josh Homme’s secret weapon – and how she overcame her fear of Strats

St. Vincent’s new album, All Born Screaming, sees her teaming up with two FooFighters, using Prince’sfavourite pedal and embarking on a prog odyssey. It also sees her return to real amps played real loud…

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“Every record has its hilarity and dark nights of the soul.” Every St. Vincent album in her own words

St. Vincent has one of the most bold, original and acclaimed catalogues in modern rock. Annie Clark talks us through every album

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"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming

As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand

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St. Vincent's superb All Born Screaming offers up thrillingly unfiltered reflections upon life, death, and all the chaos that occurs between those two inevitabilities

St. Vincent strives for catharsis on masterful seventh album All Born Screaming

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“Watching David Byrne work was so pivotal”: St. Vincent on what she learned from working with the Talking Heads leader

The pair collaborated on the 2012 album Love This Giant

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“The second he kicks in on the first chorus, it’s just mind-blowing!" St. Vincent shares slinky Dave Grohl-powered new single Flea, reveals All Born Screaming North American tour dates

Flea is the second advance preview of St. Vincent's forthcoming All Born Screaming album, due on April 26

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"He just set me on fire": St. Vincent on working with Dave Grohl on her forthcoming new album

The Foo Fighters leader is behind the kit on two tracks on the record

Louder

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mdou Moctar, St Vincent, Danko Jones and more

Eight songs guaranteed to make you feel better about life, the universe and everything

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‘I‘d rather people scratch their heads than yawn’: St Vincent on death, Dave Grohl and dividing her fans

Despite its unflinching title, the artist’s new album, All Born Screaming, is a deeply romantic record

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“He comes in with this absolute reckless spirit and just takes it to the edge”: St Vincent’s new single, Broken Man, features “three drummers”, and one of them is Dave Grohl

On self-producing her new album, Annie Clark says: “I needed to understand sound - scientifically and also as intention”

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There’s a reason the custom purple guitar Olivia Rodrigo is playing on her Guts world tour looks familiar

Ernie Ball Music Man signature model has special significance

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