White Denim's James Petralli and Austin Jenkins Psych It To You — rollingstone.com

Welcome to Young Guns, our series exploring the most notable guitarists from the next generation of six-string legends. For more interviews with the guitarists inspiring us right now, click here. WHO: Guitarist James Petralli has been helping the Texas quartet White Denim churn out ear-shattering psychedelic blues rock for nearly a decade – and in 2010, new guitarist Austin Jenkins came on board. On albums like last year's Corsicana Lemonade, the band has nailed a heady fusion of jazz, punk, stoner rock, experimental noise and Seventies-style arena pomp (check out their Jimmy Page-biting steez in "At Night in Dreams"). Jenkins credits their chops to lots of fiddling around during free time: "I practice be-bop or western swing," he says. "Jazz is one of the most rhythmic vocabularies out there – there's a lot to be mined." Back in 2005, White Denim were gigging in Austin clubs and recording in drummer Joshua Block's converted 1950s-era Airstream trailer, but their national profile is finally rising – in March, they had a hometown heroes' welcome with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live during his South by Southwest residency.

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