SOMEWHERE ON LONG ISLAND: The word “inimitable” gets thrown around a lot in music, but when the subject is Fred Schneider, things get a little fuzzy — fact is, just about everyone thinks they can sound just like the B-52’s legendary lead male honker. Wanna practice? Get ready: His vocals Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: It’s such an exciting time in music. Challenging too, yes. But “exciting” because we live and work in a time when bands like Emanuel and the Fear will start as an idea in the studio and become real because there’s nothing standing in their way.
An 11-piece Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Before Salme Dahlstrom released her debut album, The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade, she didn’t know a synch license from a stoplight. Now, Salme knows synch licensing.
Every track from that disc has been synched to picture, getting tapped by top brands such as Vodafone, Nike, MTV, Read more...
The two-day Digital Music Forum East conference is happening in NYC next week. Panel discussions will involve high-level speakers from several of the major labels, live and digital music and marketing companies like The Echo Nest, ReverbNation, Live Nation, MTV Mobile, Thumbplay, Creative Artists Agency, stormcrowd, LimeWire and OurStage, Inc. Read more...
Imagine sitting in front of a desktop monitor. You are immersed in a multimedia matrix of musicians jamming in a bath of b-flat sonorities, as a poet reads his own touching words. Strangely beautiful. Now… imagine experiencing that while sitting in a top-notch ad music studio in New York City. Read more...
We first heard Locksley in 2005 at Guy Benny’s studio, The Space, in the Lower East Side. It was a Kinks vs. Beatles garage-rock sound, catchy as can be. A fresh-faced four-piece, newly in town from Wisconsin, Locksley was just rough-and-tumble enough to pull off this British Invasion-style in a Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: We never considered ourselves big-time fans of Petula Clark – until we ran into Maxine Linehan, that is. Then, during a private concert at Manhattan’s Tainted Blue studios, Clark’s deep catalog of eternally satisfying pop songs, which include classics like “Downtown”, “Call Me”, and “Don’t Sleep on the Read more...
“There’s nothing new that can be said in pop songwriting,” says Claude “Studio Beast” Kelly, in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles. “So, it’s not about writing some groundbreaking love song, it’s about writing a love song the way Miley Cyrus or Kelly Clarkson would write it. It’s the Read more...
Last week we found out what makes Jason Jordan, Vice President of A&R for Hollywood Records, tick. This week, he goes straight to the strong stuff, pulling no punches on the good/bad/ugly on A&R in 2010.
Learn what to do – and what not to do – to get his Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: The major label A&R executive sometimes seems like Bigfoot these days – hard to track down, even harder to get your head around. But Jason Jordan, Vice President of A&R for Hollywood Records, is no mythical creature.
This NYC-based hit hunter operates out in the great wide open, Read more...
