Last week, SonicScoop linked up with Maureen Droney, the Director of the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy (NARAS), who was in town for AES.
Based in Los Angeles, Maureen had heard — and heard right — about Brooklyn being a choice destination for recording studios, and wanted Read more...
We hit a few after-show events last night, starting at Platinum Sound for a Vintage King event. In addition to being a top-notch environment for recording and mixing, Platinum is a great hang.
Vintage King had a couple racks of gear on hand, from Shadow Hill, Retro, Inward Connections, Antelope, Read more...
EAST VILLAGE: The NYC indie music scene got a huge boost when Seattle’s KEXP DJ John Richards moved out here to broadcast part-time from Brooklyn’s Radio New York studios. His two shows – John In The Morning and To The Five Boroughs – feature in-studio interviews and performances with Read more...
TRIBECA: In the middle of sessions with Kill Rock Stars dance-rock duo Shy Child, Chris Zane spent an hour chatting with us from behind a drum kit at Gigantic Studios. Drumsticks-in-hand, Zane gestures musically.
“The drums are my cross to bear,” he says. “I played drums my whole life Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Since Auto-Tune The News #1 hit back in April ’09, the series’ creators — the Brooklyn-based Gregory Brothers — went from being a young, indie-soul band with a new EP to an overnight Internet sensation. Done in a format they call “news opera,” Auto-Tune The News (ATTN) Read more...
