Spoon Makes The Rounds
This past spring, alt-rockers Spoon added 30 dates to their tour supporting the album Hot Thoughts (Matador, 2017), hitting a wide variety of venues,...
Classic Tracks: The Dead Milkmen’s “Punk Rock Girl”
“Punk Rock Girl,” is a tale of two musical cities—the Dead Milkmen’s hometown of Philadelphia and Austin, Texas, where producer Brian Beattie is based.
Odesza’s ‘A Moment Apart’
Electronica/pop duo Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, better known as ODESZA, released their third album last month. A Moment Apart (Counter Records/Ninja Tune) blends...
Mix Regional: New York City
THE POWER STATION AT BERKLEENYCHistoric Studio’s Next Act As widely reported by the New York Times and others, Berklee College of Music, led by...
Classic Tracks: Katrina & The Waves’ “Walking On Sunshine”
The now-classic 1980s take on a 60s soul stomper didn't find its groove (literally) until the drums were re-recorded and the track got a...
Cool Spin: Chuck Berry Chuck (Dualtone)
When Berry passed away in March, he had Chuck in the can. We’re told that Berry had been work.ing on songwriting and tracks for...
Moon Duo
Keyboardist Sanae Yamada and Guitarist Ripley Johnson areMoon Duo, electronic music collaboratorswhose latestcollections,Occult Architecture Vol.IandVol.II,aremeant totracea musicalpaththrough the seasons. Byturns,brighteror darkertextures arelayeredoveracentral groove,expressing the ideaofanatural landscape, and...
Classic Tracks: Camper Van Beethoven’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
Camper Van Beethoven formed in the founding members’ hometown of Redlands, Calif., but it was in their college days, at the University of California...
Dauphin Street Sound, Mobile, Ala.
MLB pitcher Jake Peavy has a reputation for fierce intensity on the mound. His competitiveness has helped to earn him a Cy Young Award...
Valerie June And The Order Of Time
Wondrously resonant and authentic, the music of Valerie June is roots-fueled yet defies category. The songs on her new album of all-original songs, The...
Cherub: Live Sound And Samples
Engineer Hunter Gifford mixed FOH and monitors for electro-pop/rock group Cherub on the band’s recent fall tour, using a DigiCo SD9 for the house...
Rose Cousins And Natural Conclusion
The beauty of Rose Cousins’ new album, Natural Conclusion, is practically on a Joni Mitchell level. She’s a poetic and precise yet fearless artist...
Entrance’s Book Of Changes
“As a musician who gets to write and play the music and sing and produce the album, there are so many artforms that go...
Nathan East
Since the early 1980s, Nathan East has been a go-to session bassist for Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Daft Punk and...
The ‘Asheville Symphony Sessions’
Echo Mountain leads the way on homegrown, full-blown production
Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony
'Singer/songwriter's compositions arranged for orchestra
Classic Tracks: k.d. lang’s “Trail of Broken Hearts”
Greg Penny and k.d. lang originally bonded over an Indian lunch. Producer/engineer Penny and his engineering colleague Joe Seta had signed on for some...
The Wild Feathers, ‘Lonely Is a Lifetime’
Pop/rock band The Wild Feathers recorded its latest in producer Jay Joyce’s St. Charles studio (Nashville) with Joyce and his go-to engineer, Jason Hall....
Charles Bradley’s ‘Changes’
The challenge for producer/engineer/guitarist Thomas Brenneck, who has completed his third album with the fabulous ’60s-style soul singer Charles Bradley, is somehow to capture...
Classic Tracks: REO Speedwagon’s “Roll With the Changes”
“Roll With the Changes” continues to be an REO Speedwagon fan favorite and a Midwestern mainstay—here's how it came into existence.
James Hunter at Daptone West
British soul James Hunter’s latest Daptone release, Hold On!, has a retro R&B vibe blended with a bit of ’60s lounge. The album was...
The Pines, ‘Above the Prairie’
Above the Prairie is the perfect name for The Pines’ album, which couches acoustic sounds in an airy atmosphere of ethereal synths. “That’s the...
Leland Sundries at The Creamery
“What compels me about Nick’s music is his storytelling,” says engineer/studio owner Quinn McCarthy; he recorded and mixed Music for Outcasts from Leland Sundries,...