A conversation with Academy Award winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Mattias IA Eklundh is not only an internationally cherished guitar virtuoso, composer, and the creator of Freak Guitar Camp (which I've been to three times since our first interview), but also, for some time now, the head of his own guitar company, Freak Guitar Lab . His signature guitar, the ULV , is now available as a 6- and 7-string version in addition to the 8-string model — even though Eklundh himself has been playing exclusively eight-strings for years. More recently, i

A few weeks ago, at Guitar Summit 2025, I had a conversation with Anders Nicklasson of True Temperament – partly for a feature I was working on for Rolling Stone Germany ( you can read that here ). True Temperament shared a booth with Mattias “IA” Eklundh, whose Freak Guitar Lab instruments are also equipped with the company’s distinctive fretting system. For anyone unfamiliar, True Temperament is the Swedish company behind those instantly recognizable “squiggly frets” — a gr

(c) Damian Irzik Doc Wenz is back. With Doc Wenz & The Melancholics , the former frontman of the legendary Mardi Gras.bb is set to release the debut album of his new project on March 28, 2025 . On „ The EPs Vol. I–III “  (off label records, dist.: Broken Silence), the Doc is in top form – a singer-songwriter somewhere between Americana, the desert and Memphis. It sounds refreshingly different, yet unmistakably like Doc Wenz. In this in-depth conversation with Markus Brandstet