WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Barbara. What does this mystical word evoke in your imagination? For We Are Scientists, this isn’t just a likely moniker for the hairdresser down the block. No no: It’s the title of their infectiously delicious new album. It’s a woman you want to get to know.
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EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN — In the Spring, we met with singer and songwriter Becca Stevens during mix sessions at Flux Studios for her upcoming album with the Becca Stevens Band. Flux owner/engineer/producer Fabrice “Fab” Dupont was mixing the record with jazz producer Matt Pierson (Jane Monheit, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman) Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: A year or more back, I was looking for a solid room for overdubbing or mixing. I found it in Seven Seas Studios, run by my friend Tony Drootin and staffed by the very capable engineer Drea Young and assistant Anna Eliopoulos.
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SOHO, MANHATTAN: NYC rock band A Million Years is huddled around a pedal board at Serious Business Studios. It’s winter and the band is recording guitars for their debut album, Mischief Maker, available July 6.
As lead guitarist Nick Werber runs through sounds, A Million Years’ guitar-playing front-man Keith Read more...
HOBOKEN, NJ: Tom Beaujour brought Nuthouse Recording into the world for many of the same reasons anyone builds a studio: 1) to record his own band, 2) to collaborate with other bands and 3) to enhance his abilities to do both. But Beaujour, formerly the Editor of Revolver and Read more...
