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.
Scene I Can Read more...
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...
By Rick Goetz
I met Bill Meadows (the subject in the interview below) when working for a music house trying to get their music placed in film and TV. Placement is very difficult but Bill offers up some great insight.
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Bill Meadows is the Executive Integrated Producer of Music, Read more...
HOBOKEN, NJ: Tom Beaujour brought Nuthouse Recording into the world for many of the same reasons anyone builds a studio: 1) to record his own band, 2) to collaborate with other bands and 3) to enhance his abilities to do both. But Beaujour, formerly the Editor of Revolver and Read more...
For the month of June, customers can purchase both the Eventide EQ45 parametric equalizer and the EQ65 filter set for $199 from Eventide authorized plug-in dealers or from Eventide.com.
Useful for notching out hum or unwanted frequencies, the EQ65 filter set (pictured) is a flexible 48-bit double precision sound shaping Read more...
WEST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: Back in the day – 1997 to be exact – Josh Bloom founded Fanatic Promotion. A downtown music marketing firm, it’s his vehicle to ensure that artists he thinks are great get noticed.
Now he’s not just flak, however. He’s Co-Owner/VP A&R of Fanatic Records, which is Read more...
MAMARONECK, NY: “I got really lucky,” Rob Fraboni admits, “and didn’t have to do a lot of stuff that a lot of people had to do coming up. I had a lot of electronics experience and started out as a musician, so I had a lot going for me in Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Joel Hamilton is a hard guy to pin down. Paging through his discography, career highlights jump out from all corners of the map. Although his mixes often feature direct, powerful central elements against backdrops of wide, immersive ambience, his production style is best defined by his adaptability. Read more...
OSSINING, NY: It was a beautiful day for a drive up to Bi-Coastal Music in Ossining to check out the new Audio-Technica (AT) AT4080 and AT4081 ribbon mics. We wanted to do a ribbon mic shoot-out and Bi-Coastal had a very nice array of ribbon mics for us to compare. Read more...
