Know your audience. This golden rule of communications is perhaps more applicable to the music business today than ever before. Social media tools and customizable digital distribution platforms have closed the gap between artist and audience. We’re back to fans being the currency, and the challenge facing artists is how Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: It’s a New Year — Instead of finding a yoga instructor for inspiration, check out Elie Maman. Equally adept at the business side of the biz, this fast-emerging producer/composer shows us just what kind of head you have to have on to fly fast forward off the city Read more...
HELL’S KITCHEN, MANHATTAN: New York City is a place where stars shine, but it can also be a land of long shadows. Just ask Rich Pagano, a world-class drummer who routinely shares the stage with the Earth’s top performers.
Besides being the pulse of champion Beatles tribute band The Fab Read more...
BiCoastal Music, the beautiful Russ Berger-designed studio located just under an hour outside Manhattan (Ossining, NY), got an extra shot of soul to finish out ’09, hosting tracking sessions with NYC-based “urban folk & jazz” singer KJ Denhert.
Producing the sessions herself, Denhert recorded new material with keyboardist Etienne Stadwijk Read more...
While Quantum Leap Silk is not the newest sample-based virtual instrument (VI) out there, you can take this as a kind of year-end shout to one of my favorite tools of the year. Silk encompasses traditional acoustic instruments from the Silk Road trade route first established during the time of Read more...
