Thirty-five years ago I was involved in a start-up magazine for recording studios. Those were the days when there actually were recording studios. And recordings were made on 2-inch tape, which was the source material for an historic generation of music that would have sounded a whole lot worse if Read more...
It’s no secret that YouTube is now one of the primary engines that drives music discovery on the web. Last year, one survey even showed that two-thirds of teens 18 and under used the site to listen to music more often than any other format – CDs, downloads and audio-only Read more...
Summer’s over, back to business. There’s a looooong list of records en route from studios and labels around the country due to drop over the next couple months. Here’s our quick-hit list of anticipated releases with as many production details as we could muster.
September
Australian grunge band, Violent Soho Read more...
It’s been ten years since Lio and Kay Kanine put out their first release: a compilation of 20 undiscovered bands, most of them from Brooklyn, titled NY: The Next Wave.
Lio Kanine (then known by his real name, Lio Cerezo) had landed a job with the indie distributor Alternative Distribution Read more...
NYC-based music talent manager Ollie Hammett has launched a new venture, Spark MGMT, with an expanded roster of producers, songwriters and engineers.
Under Spark, Hammett continues to represent his (formerly Rocket Management) clients – songwriter/producer and film score composer Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jukebox the Ghost), artist/songwriter Teddy Geiger, and Read more...
