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Road Survival Tools of a Pro Agent: Touring Tips from The Agency Group’s David Galea

MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: You’re not ready until you’re ready to take it on the road. With all bets officially off on all other forms of music revenue, touring is one of the most tangible avenues available for promoting a band.

David Galea, an agent at the NYC office of the elite Read more...

Art Echoes Across the Atlantic: No Longer Empty on the Road Sounds Off at the Liverpool Biennial

CHELSEA, MANHATTAN/LIVERPOOL: Open spaces, sight and sound are all fair game for the arts group No Longer Empty (NLE). Now the vision of this NYC group, which temporarily transforms vacant spaces into artistic beehives, is starting to spread out internationally.

For those who have the time – and the scratch Read more...

Engineer/Musicians Hatch Three Egg Studios In Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Last year, we reported on an impressive new recording studio that had soft-launched in South Williamsburg, called One.Point.Six Media. The facility had been years in development, its owner and designer working closely with Michael Blackmer of Blackmer Sound to perfect the acoustics. Studios can be complicated businesses, Read more...

Living Room Recording: Producer Nic Hard Makes The Perfects Feel Right at Home

PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN: No slave to the studio, Nic Hard. For this in-demand indie producer/engineer/mixer (The Bravery, Aberdeen City, The Church, The Kin), professional recording often means a move away from controlled conditions into creatively comforting confines.

Hard’s latest project, capturing the arresting rock/new wave/electronic concoctions of Baltimore’s the Read more...

Daptone, Home Grown: Gabe Roth’s Cottage Industry of Soul

Much of America is familiar with Gabe Roth’s authentic heavy-soul sensibilities from his Grammy-winning work behind the glass with Amy Winehouse. Despite this blockbuster success and continued work with major label artists, it’s the homegrown label Daptone Records that may prove to be his most enduring legacy.

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