SoHo/WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN: Why record your debut album at one slammin’ NYC studio when a dozen would do? That’s what the NYC rock three-piece The NowhereNauts thought as they attacked the making of their stirring, wise-beyond-their-years self-titled release that came out this week.
As it turns out, a dozen studios Read more...
GREAT KILLS, STATEN ISLAND: Innovation isn’t all about Web startups and seizing the spotlight. With his eye on multiple generations of musicians and music lovers, Mike Grande likes making things happen from borough to borough.
The Staten Island School of Rock that he established in 2004 is a forward-thinking Read more...
FASHION DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Strapping yourself in to play the heart-stopping EA race game, Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, you realize that reality rules. From the helmet-cam to the tire pressure and every bump on the racecourse, everything here is as real as it gets. Except for the music – Read more...
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: We bump into Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels in the elevator at Manhattan Center Studios. Though not exactly a shocking encounter, as we’re our way to visit his session in Studio 7, the meeting is no less thrilling: “You’re D.M.C.!” we gush. “Awesome!”
We’re about to flash back to Read more...
NEW YORK CITY: For their latest release, Skeletons have stripped back the flesh, eschewing their electronics-based approach to feature artful live performances of challenging new compositions.
Sometimes presenting stretches of sound that are as harrowing and disjointed as his band’s name implies, writer/guitarist/singer Matt Mehlan has struck a difficult Read more...
