Rachel Roberts - Journalist

About Me

I'm a 24-year-old freelance journalist (currently working shifts across Guitar.com and Music Tech) and former West Midlands Newsletter Lead for Reach. I'm a multi-media journalist, able to produce design and illustrative work as well as podcasts, videos and quality written work to tight deadlines. 

I specialise in writing features on music, culture, entertainment and societal issues. My work is always produced with diligence and enthusiasm, and I have a knack for being creatively bold. If you'd like to work with me then please don't hesitate to get in touch...

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My Latest Work

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

“Every time I’ve played that guitar, people turn around”: Portugal. The Man’s John Gourley on his signature Gretsch and the music that shaped his life

John Gourley proves that there’s no right way to become a musician. Having grown up in a family of dog mushers and carpenters in Alaska, he was somewhat of a latecomer to finding bands like Nirvana and Oasis. He didn’t truly get into guitar until he started his band Portugal. The Man either, but if a Grammy Award and now a signature model with Gretsch doesn’t show that none of that stuff matters, we’re not sure what will.
• READ MORE: These are Dave Grohl’s four biggest guitar-playing influences
MusicTech •

The Saltburn Effect: Princess Superstar and Mason on the conception and rebirth of Perfect (Exceeder)

Mason and Princess Superstar are often asked for permission to use their 2007 hit Perfect (Exceeder) in film, TV and adverts. When a request came through for it to be used in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, neither of them realised it would be such a big deal…

The Saltburn Effect — this is the phenomenon that caused Mason and Princess Superstar to have their careers flipped upside down, all over again.
• READ MORE: Chromeo: “We’re still as enthralled by funk and analogue synths as we were before”
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

The Maine’s Jared Monaco refrains from recording with digital gear

“I was literally about to sell everything that I had,” says Jared Monaco. The musician has served as lead guitarist for rock outfit, The Maine, since 2007. But just before he was asked to join the band, he very nearly got rid of his gear in its entirety.
• READ MORE: Plini on new EP ‘Mirage’ and writing his most out-there music yet

“These guys had been doing it for three months before I ended up joining them. The week that John [O’Callaghan, vocalist] called me to see if I wanted to go on tour,
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

Sophie Lloyd says self-doubt led her to “almost quit completely”

When your music career rockets as fast as Sophie Lloyd’s has, your inner critic can make you question if you really deserve to be where you are. That feeling is exactly what the 28-year-old shredder has tried to conquer on her debut solo record, Imposter Syndrome.
• READ MORE: “We can scream and wail to show rage, and also create these beautiful harmonies that show solidarity and love”: HAWXX on the pure catharsis of metal

“This whole album is me making the conscious decision to overcome that,
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

“If I’m not making music the way I want it to be made, then what the f**k am I doing?”: The re-birth of singer-songwriter Charlotte Carpenter

Charlotte Carpenter began climbing in the music industry by releasing a series of EPs in the 2010s. After cutting ties with her old producer and finding who she is on her own terms, she’s returned with a debut album and a baritone guitar that holds quite the story….

“She was such a beacon when I was 14, you know?” Charlotte Carpenter says with the sun streaming behind her as she video calls us from Portugal, a far cry from her currently drizzly home of the East Midlands, UK.

Some may assume th
Kerrang! •

Introducing Interview Feature With Bambie Thug - Kerrang! Autumn Print Issue 2023

Corey Taylor: “You either take advantage of what you’ve got going on now, embrace it and live in that moment, or you watch it fade away”

Author. Presenter. Musician. Plus actor. There’s nothing Corey Taylor can’t do, and with new solo album CMF2 he’s fully seized the opportunity to flex his creative muscles. Meeting The Great Big Mouth in London, we get into his ’70s-inspired process, how it differs to Slipknot, and what his younger self would make of it all…
Kerrang! •

“We want to be the biggest private provider of counselling in the…

Linkin Park: “We were out to prove this was our band and our style… That’s what Meteora became”

With a seminal, era-defining debut album under their belts, in 2003, all eyes were on Linkin Park to follow-up with something equally as groundbreaking. And boy did they deliver. 20 years on from the release of the monumental Meteora, the band share the hidden history behind one of our world’s most beloved records…
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

Meet Voice of Baceprot: The fearless metal trio calling for peace whilst making big noise

Voice of Baceprot have built a brand for themselves by being ferocious and raucous, yet as we video chat with Marsya (guitar and vocals) and Widi (bass), it’s hard to imagine their gnarly rocking stage personas as they glimmer with a contagiously chirpy energy.
• READ MORE: Five essential Nirvana tracks for guitar players

The metal trio, along with their drummer Siti, formed in 2014 at school in Singajaya, a small village outside the city of Garut, West Java. Together the pals make rage-fuelled
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

The Genius Of… Veni Vidi Vicious by The Hives

The Hives have spent the last few months reminding Arctic Monkeys fans why they remain one of the very best live acts around, so what better excuse to throw back to one of the most eccentrically marketed but foot-tappingly infectious albums of the early 2000s? April 2000 saw Swedish rock band The Hives release their second studio album Veni Vidi Vicious. Hitting right on the cusp between the second wave of pop-punk and the early stirring of the garage-rock revival, they were a little hard to pig
Alternative Press Magazine •

7 films to watch before Greta Gerwig’s unhinged 'Barbie'

Barbie is set to be this year’s biggest movie (yes Oppenheimer, we said what we said). The forthcoming Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster stars Margot Robbie as everyone’s beloved childhood doll, Barbie, alongside her “girlfriend-boyfriend” himbo companion, Ken (played by Ryan Gosling).

The cast is arguably one of the most star-studded movie lineups in many years, with members including Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, and Connor Swindells, along with Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera
the-face •

“We were ahead of our time”: Le Tigre talk politics and fashion faux…

It’s been 18 years since Le Tigre last toured, but their politically-potent dance-punk still feels fresh. ​“We were cryogenically frozen in 2005 and they just took us out of the freezer,” jokes founding member Johanna Fateman. The trio formed in New York City in 1998, when Kathleen Hanna was seeking a live band to perform the songs from Julie Ruin, a solo album she started while her trailblazing riot grrrl band Bikini Kill was dissolving. Hannah drafted in zine-maker Fateman, who she’d met at a
Guitar.com | All Things Guitar •

Meet NoSo: The self-proclaimed gear nerd drawing in diverse crowds with dreamy indie-pop

There’s many layers to the modern guitarist – with labels wanting you to be a whizz at social media, having to tour in an industry heavily impacted by a pandemic, and the expectation that you have to be heavily political, there’s a lot riding on the shoulders of new musicians. But sometimes, the music alone does more than enough at implementing change.
• READ MORE: “We’re set in our ways, but this record got us out of it” Mudhoney on breaking the mould eleven albums in

“I’m obsessed with this s
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