Jackson Browne: L.A.’s Favorite Son Talks About His New Album, Standing in the Breach, and How He Works in the Studio
Jackson Browne wrote “The Birds of St. Marks,” the song that kicks off his superb new album, Standing in the Breach, when he was...
Cool Spin: Dolly Parton, ‘Blue Smoke’ (Sony Masterworks)
Dolly Parton has put out a whopping 42 studio albums since her 1967 debut, and to her credit, she’s still giving her all—her voice...
Cool Spin – Paul Rodgers: ‘The Royal Sessions’ (429/Pie Records)
What an unexpected surprise this is. English rock and blues belter Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm, etc.) revisits his roots on ‘The...
Cool Spin – Various Artists: Music From and Inspired by ’12 Years a Slave’ (Columbia)
Forget the brutality that suffuses Steve McQueen’s brilliant film, 12 Years a Slave. This album, assembled by John Legend, who also sings a couple...
Cool Spin – Vienna Teng, ‘Aims’ (Soltruna Records)
For her fifth studio album, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Vienna Teng has paired with producer/musician Cason Cooley to create a texturally rich and stylistically diverse album that’s...
In the Studio With Sam Cooke
(Editor’s note: The following was adapted from our October 1997 “Classic Tracks” column about the recording of “Bring It on Home to Me.”) In...
Classic Tracks: Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes”
Well-respected as a songwriter for hire, Kim Carnes hit it big with someone else's song...which originally sounded like a beer-barrel polka until Val Garay...
Richie Moore, 1948-2003
The audio world lost another great one on February 16, when Richard Dr. Richie Moore died in his Orcas Island, Wash., home at the...
A Fine Mess
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief…” —...
45TH Grammy Awards
As we like to do every year, we're taking a moment to tip our hats to some of the engineers and producers who have...
TOM DOWD, 1925-2002
The recording world lost one of its true giants when legendary engineer, producer and audio innovator Tom Dowd succumbed to emphysema on October 27...
2002 Grammy Award Nominees For Production and Engineering
And you thought last year was U2’s big year at the Grammys! After nabbing three awards in 2001, the Irish quartet is nominated for eight this...
GEORGE HARRISON: 1943-2001
In the endless post-mortems about George Harrison, I keep reading about his 1974 tour of America. That's not how I remember it: I remember...
George Harrison, 1943-2001
George Harrison: He Was Fab In the endless post-mortems about George Harrison, I keep reading about his "disastrous" 1974 tour of America. That’s not
IN THE ROOM WITH HAROLD BUDD
The music of Harold Budd is steeped in mystery. It bubbles up from deep silences and softly reverberant spaces, insinuating itself like some sort...
Aero Smith
It's a measure of just how far Aerosmith has left behind its image as 70s bad boys that they were asked to be part...
43rd Grammy Awards
A Salute to the Tech Winners This is supposed to be the Age of Choice in the world of cable/satellite TV. So how come...
THE DOORS ROCK AGAIN ON THE INTERNET
There's gold in them thar' tape vaults! Old and new bands alike are increasingly finding that the relatively low cost and high-profit margin of...
Paul Simon
Besides being one of the acknowledged greats of American pop songwriting, PAUL SIMON is also a master producer, arranger and recordmaker who has consistently
PAPA ROACH The Infestation Continues
Surely one of the great success stories of the past year has been the steady and impressive rise of Papa Roach, the hard-rocking alt...
Classic Tracks: Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration”
When's the last time you heard Kool & The Gang's triumphal, anthemic, R&B smash "Celebration"? At your cousin's wedding last summer?
MASTER HOUSE
Over the past few years, Miami has emerged as one of the top second-tier recording scenes in the country - a nexus for homegrown...
A RIGHTEOUS RETURN
It's been five years since the release of Joan Osborne's Top 10, multi-Platinum, major-label debut album, Relish, and three since she got off the...
A FOCUS ON THE BASICS
Over the past three decades, Sheffield Audio-Video Productions has quietly grown into one of the most successful multimedia production operations in the
IN THE GROOVE WITH NICK SANSANO
FROM PUBLIC ENEMY TO GALACTIC New York-based engineer/producer Nick Sansano has forged a solid career out of working away from the mainstream - out...
M WORKS RULES BOSTON
FACILITY SPOTLIGHT Over the past eight years, Jonathan Wyner's Cambridge, Mass., M Works mastering studio has established itself as the one of the top
BOB WEIR AND RATDOG
ADVENTURES IN THE DOGHOUSE This time it was going to be different. Bob Weir, the former Grateful Dead guitarist/singer, was going to work quickly...
Classic Tracks: Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Joan Jett turns 40 this September, a milestone that seems almost unimaginable to anyone who still remembers her at 17 strutting the stage, all...
Glen Kolotkin:THE COAST-TO-COAST CAREER OF A RECORDING JOURNEYMAN
Long Island-based Glen Kolotkin is hardly a household name in the recording business, but over the course of more than three decades as an...
6 VIEWS ON 5.1
ADVENTURES IN SURROUND MIXING Everybody in the industry seems to be talking about 5.1, but how many engineers out there are actually doing surround...
WGBH: LIVE ON THE WEB
Boston's WGBH stations are among the most active public stations in the country in terms of producing original programming, which includes concert broadcasts
It’s Alive!: A LOOK AT SOME RECENT LIVE RECORDING PROJECTS
When Mix first decided to investigate the making of a few new live CDs from different musical genres, we didn't know how each had...
moe.: L (Fatboy)
Call 'em a jam band, a groove band, whatever-moe. mostly plays really long (10- to 20-minute), highly rhythmic jams loaded with lots of lead...
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BRINGING BOB WILLS TO A NEW AUDIENCE
Making Ride With Bob, Asleep at the Wheel's Grammy-winning all-star tribute to the legacy of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, wasn't too much...
Dixie Dregs: California Screamin’ (Zebra)
Fusion, anyone? During their heyday in the late '70s and early '80s, the Dixie Dregs were one of the most electrifying bands in America-a...
Classic Tracks: Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”
When Warren Zevon emerged in the midst of L.A.'s vibrant singer/songwriter scene in the mid-'70s, he was like a breath of...well, strange air. As...
Hui Aloha (Dancing Cat) and Various: Honolulu to Hollywood (The old Masters)
Hui Aloha might be called a Hawaiian "supergroup": It includes two of the Islands' finest contemporary slack-key guitarists/singers-George Kuo and Dennis
STAN RIDGWAY THE MuSIC IS THE MoVIE
Stan Ridgway has always been a keen observer of modern life. From his days as the frontman of the unusual but always compelling Los...
PROJECT STuDIO PROJECTS
The tip-off that Marshall Crenshaw recorded his latest CD, enigmatically titled #447, in his own project room is the name of the studio in...
Dolly Parton: The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill)
It's no surprise that Dolly Parton could make a fine album of acoustic string band music; the wonder is that it's taken her so...