It’s kind of cute now how just a few short years ago we were all sufficiently impressed by how Apple Garageband gave broke college kids the ability to cut albums on a laptop with a basic, free DAW program. In the meantime, the studio has continued to shrink while the Read more...
GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: Sometimes a record is just a recording, and sometimes it’s a resurrection. For the soulful soul-searcher Janita, her newest album Haunted shows how a singer and her muse can find a way to flourish again.
Recently released on Greenwich Village-based label Engine Company Records, Haunted sees one Read more...
At a hockey tryout, more years ago than I care to remember, my A-game had decided to stay home and I was quite frustrated with how bad I was playing. I went back to the bench to swap out my stick, and the red-necked coach, surely named Bubba, spat out Read more...
Facility Name: Sundlaugin Studio
Website: http://www.sundlaugin.com
Location: Mosfellsbaer, Iceland
How to Get Here from NYC: JFK to Keflavik Airport, then 40 minutes drive towards Reykjavik.
Where You Can Stay Once You Get Here: Hotel Laxnes, five minute walk from the studio. Or any hotel in downtown Reykjavik which is a Read more...
BRIDGEPORT, CT: In July, we saw Jukebox The Ghost perform songs from their new record, Everything Under The Sun, at 92YTribeca. Building on the more straight-ahead piano-pop of their previous album, Let Live and Let Ghosts, the new tunes came across live in epic fashion, more Queen than Ben Read more...
Artist: Kele
Song: “Rise”
Why I Luv It: Bloc Party‘s lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kele Okereke has released (via Glassnote in the U.S.) arguably one of the strongest electro-rock-punk records of the year. It was recorded right here in Brooklyn, and it’s called The Boxer.
If Read more...
As the pantheon of Great American Storytellers slowly grows, SonicScoop insists that Stan Ridgway be placed prominently on the list.
No detail of life in These United States escapes this shrewd songwriter, who has been training a scientifically artful eye on us all since his days leading Wall of Voodoo. Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: In all incarnations, including its latest, Mark Christensen’s Engine Room Audio has run ahead of the curve, taking risks to provide the local artist and producer/engineer community with something it really needs. Back in ’03, Christensen opened a multi-room production and mastering facility on Canal Street, making Read more...
UNION SQUARE, MANHATTAN:Welcome to the indie city. No, we’re not talking about Chicago, but the big — and often scary — habitat that exists for the independent music community.
For the times that this place feels more like a jungle, the national NYC-based organization American Association of Independent Music Read more...
Second in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to read Part I.
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Since I opened the first Strange Weather, I’ve considered myself an amateur acoustical designer. I’ve always had to look at the space available to me and figure Read more...
