Albums are alive and well – and there’s a brave studio that’s ready to back up that notion.
The facility that takes the long-playing view? It’s called Continental Recording Studio, and it’s the latest evidence as to why Long Island City may be the true hub of NYC recording today Read more...
Keep your eyes peeled the next time you’re traversing a bucolic East Village block. Put on your The Force goggles and you just might see it: The studio that made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.
This is the creative space of the prolific music-to-picture composer Goldi, and it’s Read more...
When Capitol Studios of Hollywood first opened its doors, America was a vastly different place than it is today.
It was 1956, a mere two years into the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The average price of a new home was just shy of $12,000, and it would still Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, on April 15, 2015.
In 1954, on his 5th birthday, Robert Sprinkle was given a choice by his father, Leland Sprinkle: have a traditional birthday party, or take a tour of one of Virginia’s most famous caves, Luray Caverns. Robert Read more...
Things are heating up in Long Island City.
That’s where you’ll find The Ice Plant, the newly hatched second generation of the recording/mixing facility that aims to be “a destination studio for local musicians.” What do founders Wayne Silver and Adam Zirkin mean by that?
In other words, this bright Read more...
