GREATER NYC AREA: This month’s buzz finds a typically colorful spread of artists recording, mixing and mastering new works around town. The Beach Boys and Animal Collective, Empire of the Sun and Tiësto, Kurt Elling, Beirut, 50 Cent and Amanda Palmer – just to mention a few – have Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: While so many Brooklyn bands are trying to figure out new ways to distort, drown and fuzz out their sound in the studio, the Madison Square Gardeners are crafting hi-fi records in the spirit of their favorite 70s rock and roll albums by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: Iconic NYC artist and sonic adventurer Laurie Anderson released her amazing new album, Homeland, earlier this week. Years in the making, Homeland emerged after a challenging and at-times vexing process in the studio, and very nearly never emerged at all.
“It’s this very, very weird hybrid,” says Read more...
Loads of great music being made at Stratosphere Studios this Fall. Fountains of Wayne tracked their fifth record in Studio A with Stratosphere’s chief engineer, Geoff Sanoff. The band’s currently adding finishing touches in Studio B.
Singer Lucy Woodward‘s been at Stratosphere with producer Tony Visconti and engineer Mario McNulty, Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: When you’re an acoustic guitar-playing singer/songwriter with folk tales to tell, everyone wants you to be the next Dylan. But Tam Lin has other plans.
“The music that I like and want to make is a lot more lush than just me and an acoustic guitar,” Read more...
