FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN: In an Internet age rife with phony Auto-Tuners and aspiring thug-rappers, 19 year-old Flatbush native MC D. Julien relies on a different approach.
Despite his young age, Julien attacks his work with a measured, thoughtful integrity that shines through in his obscenity-free lyrics. Evident in the way Read more...
Rough Magic Studios — a recording studio, rehearsal space and production facility located in the Pencil Factory building in Greenpoint — recently hosted recording sessions with Talib Kweli, The Sunday Flies and LA-based psych-folk band, Pepper Rabbit.
Kweli returned to Rough Magic to do some tracking for his own project, Read more...
Magneto Audio Labs founded by audio industry veteran Bob Reardon (Lexicon, Harmon, Waves, SE, Sonic Distribution), has introduced its debut product, the VariOhm.
The VariOhm, designed to provide the best match between the microphone and mic preamp and enhance audio quality and offer tone choices, is connected between the microphone Read more...
The Production Music Association (PMA) will be holding its September meeting with a panel discussion this Wednesday, September 22 at the BMI offices in lower Manhattan.
A panel will be discussing the latest topics affecting production music libraries in an event that’s open to PMA members, non-members and guests.
Moderated Read more...
HELL’S KITCHEN, MANHATTAN: With conviction like his, James McCartney doesn’t have to convince anybody of anything. Just a few seconds into “Angel”, the opening cut of his new EP, Available Light, it’s clear to all with ears that his hooks are heroic. And they’re his.
Of course, with his bloodline, Read more...
