If you blinked during Sunday’s GRAMMY telecast, you might have missed the fact that the iconic jazz recordist Rudy Van Gelder was honored by the Recording Academy with a 2012 Trustees Award.
Van Gelder is credited with engineering thousands of jazz recordings from his Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio. Although many Read more...
The software developer Mixed In Key, known for its popular Mixed in Key 5 harmonic mixing analysis tool, announce that it has released Mashup for Windows and Mac OS X.
Mashup (available for $39 with free updates until Version 2.99) is a new audio editor designed to let DJs and Read more...
X5 Music Group, the growing digital music label, announced that it has hired the highly experienced music executive Noelle Bell. In her role as Account Director for X5, she will be based at the label’s New York City offices in the Empire State Building.
Bell is a digital music veteran Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Don’t take your ears off the drums: Try listening to nothing but the precision ballistics that shoot through every song on Resolution, Lamb of God’s addictive seventh studio album, and life gets almost unbearably exciting.
The source of this rhythmic exhilaration is Chris Adler, whose advanced Read more...
Surprised, but not surprising, was my reaction to the news of R&B superstar Whitney Houston’s passing yesterday. Her death came one day before the 54th GRAMMY Awards presentation tonight – a small shortfall mirroring larger shortcomings that unfortunately defined the last decade of her life.
Houston sold 200 million+ albums Read more...
