Chris Kies

The Louisiana sludge-metal vets give us the lowdown on their setups.

The metal titans’ lead guitarist shares his most dependable pieces of tried-and-true Gibson and Mesa/Boogie kit.

The veteran sludge slingers show off the goods in this subterranean Rundown.

The grossest of ’em all rolls through Nashville.

Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus stuck to their signature guns on a recent American tour.

After a devastating theft in 2021, the metal band’s guitarist rebuilt his tone empire around some life-changing loans.

The long-running punk quartet pick prototypes, P basses, and Pauls for their latest live shows.

Get ready to dive into the gear-head dream: we teamed up with our friends at East Side Music Supply and pedal-wizard Blair White to build a pedalboard inspired by Queens of the Stone Age. From fuzz to filter sweeps, octaves to tape echo, we traced the band’s signature sound and then assembled a stac...

Thanks to some key years working at a celebrated music store, this band of brothers has the goods.

The in-demand gunslinger brings a load of silverware to arenas across the world.