Player No. 032indie-rock
Alex Turner
Arctic Monkeys' frontman and guitarist whose sound evolved from frantic indie punk to sleek, reverb-drenched desert rock. Turner's riff on Do I Wanna Know? -- a fuzzy, hypnotic groove through a Vox amp -- became the defining guitar sound of 2010s indie rock.
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