UPPER WEST SIDE: From the land of mediocre restaurants and mid-life crisis, the Upper West Side, come The Postelles. How did this foursome rise above the cultural obstacles of their upbringing, coming from a place where the Gap and Starbucks reign as supreme as in the Topeka suburbs, to make Read more...
Hipper than thou. Walter Sear didn’t have to try to be cooler than most everyone else on the planet – he just was.
All of us at SonicScoop were deeply saddened to learn that Walter, the founder of NYC’s Sear Sound, passed away on Thursday. We knew that he had Read more...
THE FLATIRON DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Who gives you the right? If you’re a label, artist or music service of some sort, it just may be RightsFlow.
This NYC company was born in the bedroom of President/CEO Patrick Sullivan in 2007, and less than three years later stands as a fast-growing player Read more...
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: It was April 15, 2010 and what better day than “tax day” to talk with the good folks over at Macsupport.com — a company dedicated to keeping our computers running so we can keep working so we can keep paying those taxes.
Macs are the nerve center of Read more...
GRAMERCY, MANHATTAN: This week, NYC singer/songwriter and filmmaker Jordan Galland releases his new solo record, Search Party. Inspired by Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg, Galland’s music has a moody, cinematic-pop quality that pervades his work in the visual realm as well. In his debut feature film — a dark comedy, Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: A heady week has just wrapped for the Harlem Parlour Music Club, a 15-strong collective comprised of top New York musicians and audio professionals. On April 13, the group played to a packed Living Room on the Lower East Side. The following day, they traveled uptown to public Read more...
By Tommy Mokas
The Duende Mini, in short, is SSL‘s magical sound housed in a 1/3 rack sized metal box that houses 4 proprietary DSP chips; the size of an average external hard drive. While Duende has been around for a while now, it is a product that is growing Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Given Steven Beer’s outstanding track record, you’d expect this top entertainment attorney to be a lot less approachable. The fact is, being extra-open to new people – and new ideas – is the secret to his success.
Want hits? Beer, a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig since 2003 signed, Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: NYC rock trio, Demander, officially release their second full-length record, Future Brite, today. This bad-ass East Village band has a refreshingly hard-edged, melodic rock sound, combining the sweet (Kathleen Hanna-meets-Karen O) punk-rock-howl of lead vocalist/bassist, Karen Kanan Correa, the thunderous rock drumming of Sivan Harlap and Read more...
HELL’S KITCHEN: Only the eclectically exacting environment of Sear Sound would do for the likes of Rufus Wainright. When it came time to record the purely fascinating sounds of the newly released All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu, NYC’s bastion of sonic succulence was the natural choice.
Consisting only Read more...
