Stewart Lerman has spent a good share of the last 5 years working with some major artists, far outside of their natural element.
Performers like Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor, Neko Case, Sharon Van Etten, Liza Minelli, Rufus Wainwright and David Johansen have all joined Lerman in Read more...
THE FIVE BOROUGHS: 2010 has been busy all right. For anyone involved in New York City’s expansive business of music – producer, publisher, entrepreneur, engineer, artist, and many more – the environment remains fast-paced, ultra-competitive and constantly changing.
With 2011 looming, SonicScoop looked for the news, trends and topics that Read more...
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN: No slave to the studio, Nic Hard. For this in-demand indie producer/engineer/mixer (The Bravery, Aberdeen City, The Church, The Kin), professional recording often means a move away from controlled conditions into creatively comforting confines.
Hard’s latest project, capturing the arresting rock/new wave/electronic concoctions of Baltimore’s the 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...
