The band Vacationer released an album near the end of June that sounds bigger, glossier and more alive than their past efforts.
Their first record, 2012’s Gone, had been competently produced in a repurposed loft space in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, drawing heavily on shoegaze and tropical influences Read more...
You can’t really sing. Your 12-tone concept album about incidental “Game of Thrones” characters doesn’t have quite the audience you thought it would. Every year, it seems musicians less talented, yet more attractive than you are “making it”, while 19 year-old NPR interns are aiding in the collapse of the Read more...
When you see the large, open space of the workshop, the quaint coziness of the demo room and the impressive construct of the studio control and live room, it’s hard to imagine just two guys sitting in their apartments making cables to sell on Craigslist and eBay.
Yet, that’s exactly Read more...
So I am sitting there in the lushness of an SSL control room in a major studio here in NYC. Happy.
Happy to be engineering and producing a project for a very cool young trio of musicians from an African nation. Creative energy literally making me high, motivated to do Read more...
You’re walking along, enjoying some of your favorite music on a pair of headphones, when all of a sudden you realize you’re re-enacting Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” video, stepping in time to the music like someone on a mission: Left foot in sync with a bass drum, right foot Read more...
