SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN: Don’t hate Matty Amendola because he’s beautiful. It’s a cross that this entrepreneurial multi-instrumentalist must bear on the way to 825 Records, his artist development baby that’s coming straight outta Brooklyn.
A pro drummer starting at the tender age of 13, Amendola has been backing up musicians Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN — In the Spring, we met with singer and songwriter Becca Stevens during mix sessions at Flux Studios for her upcoming album with the Becca Stevens Band. Flux owner/engineer/producer Fabrice “Fab” Dupont was mixing the record with jazz producer Matt Pierson (Jane Monheit, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman) Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: A year or more back, I was looking for a solid room for overdubbing or mixing. I found it in Seven Seas Studios, run by my friend Tony Drootin and staffed by the very capable engineer Drea Young and assistant Anna Eliopoulos.
Now known as Area 51 Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: How do YOU manage? If you’re a band or solo artist working above a certain level, then you do it with a business manager like Rob Shore.
Straight from Madison Avenue, Rob Shore and his team oversees monetary matters for a diverse roster of 35 artists, including Read more...
Artist: Black Water Rising
Song: “No Halos”
Why I Luv It: American hard rock n roll is living and breathing in Brooklyn, NY, and Black Water Rising is large, heavy, melodic, and in charge! I absolutely love this band, and the song “No Halos” embodies all that Read more...
Internet Week New York kicks off today, and will continue through June 14. Many panels are relevant to artists and businesses across the music industry, such as talks on how to pitch ideas and find sponsors, as well as how to increase your profits through the Internet.
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SOHO, MANHATTAN: The 2010 CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most widely recognized international awards ceremonies for advertising, communications and design took place in New York City last week. The two days of awards shows were preceded by the CLIO Conferences “Ideas that Inspire”, which included guest speakers such as Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: NYC rock band A Million Years is huddled around a pedal board at Serious Business Studios. It’s winter and the band is recording guitars for their debut album, Mischief Maker, available July 6.
As lead guitarist Nick Werber runs through sounds, A Million Years’ guitar-playing front-man Keith Read more...
Artist: Delphic
Song: “This Momentary”
Why I Luv It: This extremely memorable new song embodies strength in songwriting and performance on multiple levels. The production is absolutely stellar. The vocal melodies are hypnotic and infectious, and most of all, this song evokes a grand spectrum of emotion.
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While over the years we have seen endless variations of the “Super Mondo Hyper Every Drum Ever!” sound libraries that sometimes valiantly, but often lamely, attempt to cover your every drum and percussion need, I appreciate the trend that’s moving in the opposite direction.
Sonic Reality’s Ocean Way Drums may Read more...
