A few weeks ago, having the good fortune to escape the latest onslaught of snow to pummel NYC, I flew down to Lexington, KY to record a project at my familiar haunt and near second home, Saint Claire Recording Company .
I was producing and engineering an EP for a Read more...
FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Picture it, the Internet, 1999. Napster launches out of a college dorm room in Massachusetts, and becomes one of the biggest forces in the music industry to reckon with. Its mechanism of peer-to-peer music file-sharing causes nothing short of a music-technology revolution, and major Read more...
GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN: As a budding producer coming up at DFA Records’ Plantain Studios, engineering for label co-founders and producers James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy — and artists such as LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & Love Affair, The Juan Maclean and Free Energy — Eric Broucek cut his teeth on a Read more...
Flatiron District, Manhattan: Driving into the city with my writing partner Erik, speeding through tons of traffic, I first laid my hands on Geist, the new drum machine sampler by FXpansion.
Sitting in the passenger seat, I loaded Geist onto my MacBook Pro and started playing with every single Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Scratch below the surface of any of today’s independent masring engineers, and most likely you’ll find a team player there. There are a lot of one-person shops dotting the NYC landscape, but these individual practitioners weren’t always flying solo.
Case in point: James Cruz, founder and Read more...
Artist: Lord Huron/Bad Decision
Song: “Into The Sun” (Bad Decision Mix) – Lord Huron (free, legal download available HERE)
Why I Luv It: Ben Schneider absorbed more than the sunlight once he touched down in Los Angeles. The Michigan transplant’s beautiful Caribbean-inflected songwriting is sunshine incarnate as Lord Huron and Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: We veteran New Yorkers know better than to put too much stock in the fantasies of eager new-arrivals. You know the type: They come to us from small towns, accustomed to finding a monthly room to rent for little more than the sum of our daily coffees Read more...
CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: NYC is quite literally the backdrop to Ann Mincieli’s brand-new Jungle City Studios. One step into the top-of-the-world Studio A, with panoramic views uptown along the High Line and west to the Hudson River, and you’re hitting the Alicia Keys chorus of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind;” it’s Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Last Fall, SonicScoop and Vintage King held a contest to pair up NYC-based singer/songwriter/filmmaker Jordan Galland with a local studio and producer to record some new material. Looking for the right engineer and room in which to track drums, vocals and piano, Galland chose Alex Lipsen, producer, Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: We are programmed to receive – and do it digitally. But before we can get all receptive, understanding digital music distribution is a must for pros of every stripe.
Originally founded in San Francisco in 2003 by Matt Laszuk and Bryn Boughton before the pair relocated to NYC Read more...
