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Jason D. Williams Killer Instincts (Rockabilly Records/Red)
If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em, apparently. Jason D. Williams is invariably compared to Jerry Lee Lewis and not without cause. He’s a...
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Post Haste Remasters ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ for 7.1
Post Haste Sound (L.A.)—a five-studio complex focusing on audio remastering and restoration for surround projects—created the 7.1 Blu-Ray edition of The Rocky Horror Picture...
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Classic Tracks: The Smiths’ “What Difference Does It Make?”
The Smiths made quite an impression when their first album was released in 1984, bringing great guitars back to the synth-drenched New Wave era.
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Classic Tracks: Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens’ “Streets of Bakersfield”
It’s still pretty surprising that Dwight Yoakam became a country music star. He was playing working-class bars and punk clubs in L.A., performing his...
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Quad Lakeside Is Latest Studio From Lou Gonzalez
Quad Nashville owner and veteran engineer Lou Gonzalez makes this important distinction about his new facility, Quad Lakeside: “It’s a studio in a home,...
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Tim Palmer Moves 62 Studios From L.A. to Austin
Producer/engineer Tim Palmer—well-known for his work with Robert Plant, Bowie’s Tin Machine, Tears for Fears, Pearl Jam, H.I.M. and many others—recently relocated from L.A....
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New Label, New Album for Social Distortion
L.A. punk band Social Distortion announced a new deal with Epitaph and a new album-in-the-making in the same breath this summer. The forthcoming sixth...
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Bil VornDick Q&A
Bluegrass recording legend Bil VornDick offers an engineer's view of the Nashville floods and recovery.
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Elizabeth Cook Welder (31 Tigers Records)
Singer/songwriter Elizabeth Cook’s fifth album showcases a lot of the stellar classic-style country that today’s “Americana” artists prize. But this is also an inventive,...
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Studio Profile: Vocomotion
While other engineer/studio owners live by the mantra “diversify or die,” Freddie Feldman has confined his career to a very specialized niche: a cappella...
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Russ Berger Q&A
Veteran studio designer/ acoustician emphasizes building viable businesses, asking the right questions.
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Review: Bill Kirchen Word to the Wise (Proper American)
Bill Kirchen, the former Commander Cody guitarist most famous as the stylistic chameleon on “Hot Rod Lincoln,” has made a lot of musical friends...
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Paul Curreri’s Music in a Panic
The Creative process is different for everyone. Singer/songwriter Paul Curreri, who’s based in Charlottesville, Va., says his bluesy rock ’n’ roll recordings get made...
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Lonestar’s ‘Party Heard Around the World’
Keyboardist/producer Dean Sams says his band Lonestar’s new album is the most collaborative project the country/rock group has made to date. The release came...
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Classic Tracks: Waylon Jennings’ “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”
This month’s “Classic Track,” “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” is on Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams, the third album he recorded...
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Review: Solomon Burke Nothing’s Impossible (E1)
Soul great Solomon Burke has been practically prolific in his golden years. He made three albums for Shout! Factory in the past several years,...
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Review: Graham Parker Imaginary Television (Bloodshot)
Everything feels a little shaky these days in the music business, but one thing rock ’n’ roll fans can rely on is that when...
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Review: Tito Gonzalez Y Su Son De Cuba Al Doblar la Esquina (To Turn the Corner) (Tito Gonzalez Records)
The latest self-released album from Cuban musician Heriberto “Tito” Gonzalez showcases the headliner’s masterful playing and full, throaty vocals in interplay with a big...
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CD Review: Various Artists: Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Deluxe Edition (New West)
T Bone Burnett proved it with his stunningly successful production of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack: He’s not only got the touch...
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Reelsound, Oprah Visit Texas State Fair
ecording Oprah by Reelsound Company at Texas State Fair profiled in Mix magazine
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Nick Curran and The Lowlifes’ Reform School Girl (Electo Groove)
Blasters frontman Phil Alvin wrote the album notes to retro-rocker Nick Curran’s latest album, Reform School Girl, but Curran’s gut-level, dirty rock ’n’ roll...
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Eric Bibb Booker’s Guitar
Like so many American roots musicians, Eric Bibb is big in Europe, where the acoustic Delta blues he plays probably seems more exotic. During...
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King Crimson Meets Tool
The Human Experimente (www.thehumanexperimente.com) is a music collective started by Emmy Award-winning musician/composer/executive producer Jeffrey Fayman
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Classic Tracks: The Runaways “Cherry Bomb”
Here's your headline, says musical genius Kim Fowley, who occasionally refers to himself in the third person. Kim Fowley and the Runaways recorded Cherry
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New Mastering Studios for Fuller, Airshow
Latin Grammy-nominated Michael Fuller, who's now in his 24th year operating Fullersound Mastering, and whose career included years as senior mastering
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Project Studio: Axis Sound
Jim Anderson, current AES president and a professor in the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University, pointed us to this...