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Guitar World
|March 2026
School's out for good ol' Brandon Niederauer, a guitarist nicknamed after a famously insane cartoon marsupial
IT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that there's something Brandon Niederauer — better known by his stage name, Taz — can't do, and we'll let you know when we find it. He's been singing and dancing on Broadway since he was 12. He's acted in movies (Saturday Night) and TV series (Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It). Just recently, he graduated from Yale with a degree in economics.
Oh yeah, he also plays guitar like a freakin' demon. "When I was a kid, somebody said, 'He plays like the Tasmanian Devil' [from Looney Tunes cartoons
This story is from the March 2026 edition of Guitar World.
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