HARLEM, MANHATTAN: When you sit down to write that next hit song, your great American novel, that killer app, or to find that just right music to fit a crucial scene for the movie you’re music supervising, where do you stop to get the job done?
Is it the first Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: As if becoming a master of your craft weren’t challenging enough, now in the world of apps we must invent entirely new crafts to master.
Not surprisingly, Jordan Rudess, virtuoso mad-science keyboardist of cornerstone NY prog-rockers Dream Theater, is always up for just such a task. To that Read more...
Midtown Manhattan: NYC audio icon Howard “Howie” Schwartz has a perspective on the NYC audio and post-production landscape that spans nearly four decades. He’s certainly spent enough time behind a mixing desk, built enough rooms, expanded, upgraded, re-tooled and kept his business growing for enough years to be able Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Sometimes a winning idea is pure as the driven snow, and other times it’s a more complex combination. The progress of NYC-based Wines That Rock shows that a great music business concept only requires one simple spin on the obvious to get ahead.
Launched in 2009, Wines That Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: Whether you know it or not, you’ve been listening to Jesse Harris a lot. For this NYC music man, the song — sung by him or somebody else — really is the thing, and his songs get around.
It was Harris’ pen that produced one of the most Read more...
