I typically wouldn’t review one of my own gigs, but in the case of the recent The Four Corners Songwriter’s Round (December 28th, 2009) at Googie’s Upstairs, I felt I had to share the experience with someone – most notably you. If you haven’t been to The Living Room in Read more...
BRIDGEPORT, CT: Producer/engineer Peter Katis has a gift for distilling a band’s sound, using instinct, technology and personal invention to help bring out the sonic temperament of a song in all its complexity. For example, The National, Interpol, The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit … all bands whose distinctly weighty Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: Why did The Strokes album Is This It change the world? Raw aggravations and melodic mastery were set free by five wizened Manhattan youths whose instincts were apparently dead on about…everything that had anything to do with music.
Rough rough rough when so much else in 2001 Read more...
Ann Mincieli is Alicia Keys’ recording engineer, album coordinator, studio designer and sonic adventure guide. She is the master facilitator — the Oven is Keys’ studio and Mincieli is its pilot light.
In her 10 years engineering records with Keys, Mincieli has spanned the sonic universe with the artist. When Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: SonicScoop recently connected with salt-of-the-earth producer/engineer Craig Dreyer who’s been working on a new record with singer/songwriter Brenda Kahn at his Mighty Toad Studios in Brooklyn. Excited by the prospect of a new record from Kahn, who’s been on hiatus since her ’99 record Hunger, we Read more...
