We first heard Locksley in 2005 at Guy Benny’s studio, The Space, in the Lower East Side. It was a Kinks vs. Beatles garage-rock sound, catchy as can be. A fresh-faced four-piece, newly in town from Wisconsin, Locksley was just rough-and-tumble enough to pull off this British Invasion-style in a Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: We never considered ourselves big-time fans of Petula Clark – until we ran into Maxine Linehan, that is. Then, during a private concert at Manhattan’s Tainted Blue studios, Clark’s deep catalog of eternally satisfying pop songs, which include classics like “Downtown”, “Call Me”, and “Don’t Sleep on the Read more...
Since hearing/loving The Soft Pack‘s “Bright Side,” a breezy punk-rock cut off of ’09’sThe Muslims EP, we’ve been looking out for the band’s first full-length record. And it turns out the California quartet came east to make this debut LP — out today on Kemado Records — with Brooklyn-based producer/engineer Read more...
ASTOR PLACE, MANHATTAN: A man capable of making 6,178 stutter edits in one song, it’s easy to see how a micromanager like BT might somehow miss the big picture. But really, it makes much more sense that BT is quickly evolving methods of mastering just as he slowly, surely is Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — We recently caught up with Brooklyn-based producer/engineer Phil Palazzolo who’s been working on the new Nicole Atkins record. “I think this is her time,” he says of the New Jersey songstress and her new material. “She’s definitely due.”
The same could be said of Palazzolo. He’s Read more...
