BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN: It’s been 12 years since a creative team at Arnold Advertising synchronized Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” on that dreamy Volkswagen commercial and in that time, brands and artists have become good friends.
Now, commercial music is all synch licenses and “inspired by” original compositions ordered to sound Read more...
Loho Studios has lived multiple lives. Between 1983 and 2007 it evolved from a downtown rehearsal space to a world-class recording studio, hosting living legends like Willie Nelson, Patty Smith, Joan Jett, Yo La Tengo, Art Garfunkel and Joey Ramone.
Following this 25-year run it disappeared from the market completely—presumably Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: Tons of sessions happening around the city this Fall. Among the many, we find Black Star back at it out in Greenpoint, Department of Eagles recording in Astoria, Jukebox The Ghost in Park Slope, Oberhofer and Steve Lillywhite in Williamsburg, Spacehog in Gowanus, and OneRepublic making a Read more...
Work it!! Make it!! Do it!!!
The Vocoder, which is short for the voice encoder, will instantly give you that robot ‘je ne sais quoi’ you’ve always been looking for. No more wasting hours of your time working on your best AWESOM-O impression, now you can use a digital plug Read more...
My friend and I got into it pretty quickly yesterday – usually takes us an hour or so to start the one-upsmanship, but yesterday it was like ten minutes. Must have been the caffeine.
SSL or Neve? API pre’s or Grace or Millennia? There is so much to consider: price Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: How much of your business model is habitual? If you could start from scratch, what would you keep – and what would you throw away?
When the digital label X5 Music Group started in 2003, its founders had the chance to rewrite every bad old rule of the Read more...
The New York Times reports that the recorded music division of EMI Group, which has offices in NYC, will be acquired by French media and telecommunications giant Vivendi for approximately $1.9 billion.
The acquisition further consolidates the major labels, putting EMI under the same roof as Universal Music Group.
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One of the most crowded booths at the year’s AES convention was also one of its smallest.
Almost everything about these few dozen square feet, nestled deep in back rows of the trade-show floor, was memorable: From the single microphone on display, to the rigid black business cards, to the Read more...
GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN: As part of Bloomberg’s East River Esplanade project, the Greenpoint waterfront will eventually be almost all parks and paths – the first of which, Transmitter Park, is currently being constructed at the end of Greenpoint Avenue.
Edging onto the park-grounds there is a modest two-story building housing the Read more...
Latest in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to start at Step 1: Finding A New Home; #2: Design; #3: Waiting For Permits (Part 1) and #4: (Part 2); and #5: Stops & Starts, #6: Demolition, #7: The Structural Work, #8 Read more...
