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Eddie Kramer and the Early Days of Electric Lady
When Jimi Hendrix and his manager, Michael Jeffries, decided to buy the recently closed Generation Club in Greenwich Village in mid-1968, the plan was...
2013
Classic Tracks: “My Life,” Billy Joel
By 1977, Billy Joel’s career was finally getting off the ground. The Long Island native had been toiling in the trenches for years and...
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Newpoli: Italian Folk Revived
Everything old is new again, and that includes traditional Italian folk music, which is being brilliantly revived by an octet called Newpoli, made up...
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Producer Ryan Hadlock
It wasn’t a slam-dunk that Ryan Hadlock—owner of Bear Creek Studio outside of Seattle and producer of high-profile projects by the likes of The...
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Ear Monsters: A New Breed of Audio (Video) Game
When it comes to videogame audio, Brian Schmidt has pretty much done it all. Besides working on more than 130 titles for most of...
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Classic Track: “Constant Craving,” k.d. lang
When k.d. lang first emerged in the mid-’80s from the plains of Alberta, with her strong, elastic alto and her androgynous look, it was...
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NASA Audio Finds a Home on Web: The Mission to Archive the Sounds of U.S. Space Flight
John Stoll has an audio job that’s never going to earn him a Grammy or let him spend weeks on the road staying in...
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Dumpstaphunk: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
It’s been 10 years since the New Orleans good-time party band Dumpstaphunk—spearheaded by keyboardist/singer Ivan Neville and his guitar-playing cousin Ian Neville (sons of...
2013
Classic Track: “Tomorrow People” Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
In the wake of Bob Marley’s death from cancer at age 36 in May 1981, there was no obvious charismatic and uniting figure in...
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Stoked! Sound of the X Games Is Nearly as Challenging as the Sports Themselves
When the first Extreme Games were staged by ESPN at the end of June 1995 at various sites in Rhode Island and Vermont, no...
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Capturing the Dark Beauty of The National
For a lot of people, it takes awhile for our records to really sink in,” says Aaron Dessner of the moody Brooklyn rock band...
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Review: Paris Combo 5 (DRG)
Though Paris Combo has been popular in France for more than 15 years, the group has had limited exposure in the United States so...
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Vampire Weekend: Adventures in Modern Sonics
Just three albums into what is already a hugely successful career, the New York indie band Vampire Weekend continue to surprise and confound expectations....
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Steve Martin and Edie Brickell: Roots Music’s Odd Couple
Comedian, actor and author Steve Martin has been a dedicated banjo picker as long as he’s been in show business, but he has only...
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Peter Rowan and Friends Pick It ‘Old School’
For The Old School, bluegrass great Peter Rowan assembled an incredible cast to interpret 10 of his engaging original tunes and a traditional spiritual....
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Review: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age (BMG)
I trust Bryan Ferry. He has impeccable taste and is consistently imaginative. So when word came down that his new album would consist of...
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Paramore Comes Back Rockin’ on New Album
In the three-and-a-half years since Paramore’s Brand New Eyes was released and sold more than a million copies worldwide, the Tennessee-based alt-pop/rock band has...
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Benedictine Nuns Top the Charts: Recording ‘Advent at Ephesus’
One of the surprise hits of the last holiday season was a recording by a group of cloistered monastic nuns singing religious songs and...
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Wayne Shorter: Live, ‘Without a Net’
The incomparable tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter may be turning 80 this August, but he’s not slowing down and his music is every...
2013
Classic Track: The Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today”
Not too many people these days know about the Chamber Brothers, but when their first Columbia album, The Time Has Come, was released in...
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Oscar Sound 2013: LINCOLN
Andy Nelson (dialog and music), Gary Rydstrom (FX), Ron Judkins (production)
2013
Classic Track: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Pride and Joy”
The story of the recording of this month’s Classic Track begins in Switzerland at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982. Mick Jagger and...
Live Gear
Celine Dion’s Search for Monitoring Perfection
If you read Mix’s December 2012 cover story on recording Celine Dion, you know that the pop chanteuse is quite particular and demanding when...
2012
Classic Tracks: INXS’s “Need You Tonight”
With "Need You Tonight," INXS wrote a hit, and had the help of an all-star production team with Chris Thomas and Bob Clearmountain to...
2012
Classic Tracks: Eddie Money, “Two Tickets to Paradise”
Eddie Money burst onto the scene at an interesting time. The new wave was in full flower, with countless bands drawing on ’50s rock...
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Classic Tracks: Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey”
Twenty-five years ago this summer, the Grateful Dead made it into the Top 10 with the only hit single of their 30-year career: “Touch...
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Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Extended Interview
Extended interview with Grace Potter and Jim Scott.
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Chick Corea and Gary Burton Mark 40 Years
Two of jazz’s busiest and most prolific players, pianist Chick Corea and vibraphone master Gary Burton, have managed to get together periodically to make...
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Review: Beach House ‘Bloom’ (Sub Pop)
Don’t let the band’s name fool you. This is not sunny summer pop—at least not in the conventional sense. As the ever-growing legions of...
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Joe Jackson Takes On Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was among the most eclectic composers of the 20th century, so it makes sense that Joe Jackson’s new tribute, The Duke (June...
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Producer Marshall Altman Talks About Working with Risa Binder
Recording 'Paper Heart' in Nashville's Smoakstack Studios
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Review: Risa Binder ‘Paper Heart’ (Warehouse Records)
Though singer/songwriter Risa Binder lives in Brooklyn, the Maryland native found the spark, the producer and the musicians she needed to cut her pleasing...