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...
NYC retro rock foursome The Postelles will release their self-titled debut album — a project two years in the making — on Astralwerks/Capitol Records on July 27.
The band recruited Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. as co-producer for the 11-song LP, and after returning home from their US/Europe tour, they Read more...
Interpol’s been recording their new album in one of NYC’s best tracking rooms, Electric Lady’s Studio A, with engineer Claudius Mittendorfer (Arctic Monkeys, Amazing Baby). The follow up to ‘07’s Our Love to Admire is due out this Spring on Capitol Records.
Legendary Kinks frontman Ray Davies has also been Read more...
