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Rig Rundown: God Is an Astronaut

The instrumental post-rock group shows how they mix tried-and-true instruments with modeling technology for an expansive soundscape set for orbit.

Chris Kies
By Chris KiesSep 28, 2016
Chris Kies
Chris Kies has degrees in Journalism and History from the University of Iowa and has been with PG dating back to his days as an intern in 2007. He's now the multimedia manager maintaining the website and social media accounts, coordinating Rig Rundown shoots (also hosting and/or filming them) and occasionally writing an artist feature. Other than that, he enjoys non-guitar-related hobbies.
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Premier Guitar’s Chris Kies visits Nashville’s Exit/In before God Is an Astronaut’s gig to hang with guitarists Torsten Kinsella (above) and Jamie Dean and bassist Niels Kinsella to talk semi-hollowbodies, complex modeling rigs, and why felt picks rule. 

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