“In the last ten years, the new-music scene in New York has completely exploded,” says Ryan Streber, composer, recording engineer and co-owner of Oktaven Audio.
“It’s unbelievable how many ensembles there are now, and how many new venues and labels there are for performances by those ensembles, playing music by Read more...
Wilco is one of those rare bands that have become something of a household name without the benefit of media saturation or even a single platinum-selling release. They’re the sort of group that seems to attract more GRAMMY nods and diehard fans than they do bell-weather listeners, and although their Read more...
NORWALK, CT: Among the flavors of the Nutmeg State, deep tribal rhythms are not necessarily what this sleepy Northeast enclave is known for. But as you soar through the clouds and into the sanctum of Tom Salta’s studio, the pulse of advanced, yet ancient, beats beat louder.
Here Salta – Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN/JOPLIN, MO: Sometimes you go looking for a story. And then, every now and again, a story finds you. I think John Lennon put it best when he said, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”
So in that spirit, meet Ross Gipson, a songwriter and Read more...
According Billboard.biz, Interscope Records has issued a response to a claim by federal prosecutors that the label’s offices were used by a drug trafficking ring. Part of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s investigation focuses on New York City recording studios, which are alleged to have been the recipients of music cases 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 and Read more...
CASSADAGA, NY: In preparing for our upcoming AES presentation “The Studio As an Instrument”, we’ve made sure to ask each of our panelists about the records and producers that most influenced them.
When I posed this question to Peter Katis after our interview with him last week, among his answers Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: In his eponymous autobiography, Slash recollects a story about legendary mix engineer Bob Clearmountain who’d been originally hired to mix the Guns N’ Roses recordings that became the Illusions albums. Slash recalls that he had discovered a notebook where Clearmountain “had notated all of the drum Read more...
The music publisher Bug Music, based in NYC since being founded in 1975, has been acquired by BMG Rights Management (based in Berlin with NYC offices). The sale price may be as much as $325 Million.
Claire Atkinson of the NY Post supplies more information in this article. Read more...
Bennett Studios, the Englewood, NJ headquarters of GRAMMY-winning engineer Dae Bennett, has closed after a decade of music, media and post production.
A large-scale operation in a relatively small-town setting just minutes away from the George Washington Bridge, the converted 100-year-old Victorian railroad station housed two world-class rooms in the Read more...
