Films-TV
Jersey Boys: Stage Hit Makes Realistic Transition to Screen
Has the live singing in the hit film adaptation of Les Miserables changed the game for everyone else making an on-screen musical? Is the...
Films-TV
Superhero Science and Technology: Marvel’s Avengers Come Alive in New Interactive Exhibit
There seems to be no limit to the number of spinoffs that can be generated from the world of Marvel Comics superheroes. The flood...
news
Producer/Engineer/Musician Bryan Bell: Making a Laptop/Studio Hybrid Work
If you’ve never heard of Nestler & Hawtin, a pair of soulful young singer-songwriters from Oregon, don’t fret. They’ve barely ventured outside of their...
news
Chicago Producer Brian Deck
Brian Deck has been a leading light of the Chicago music scene for going on three decades now, one of those classic multi-hyphenates: musician-engineer-producer-studio...
news
Cloud Cult Strips Down for ‘Unplug’
For their tenth album, the eclectic Minneapolis-based indie band Cloud Cult, led by the extraordinary singer and songwriter Craig Minowa, decided to try something...
news
Nathan East: Bass Monster Steps Out With Solo Debut
Bassist Nathan East has played on literally hundreds of albums by musicians of every stripe over the course of an extremely successful career that...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Big Star’s “September Gurls”
Big Star never had anything close to a hit record, yet here we are writing about them in Classic Tracks. Why?
news
Ozomatli: Bright Days for Eclectic L.A. Groove Band
Famously energetic and fabulously eclectic, the L.A. band Ozomatli shows no signs of slowing down after close to two decades of practically nonstop action....
Films-TV
Music for ‘True Detective’: T Bone Burnett Digs Deep for Eerie HBO Drama
It’s been awhile since the ending of a season of a limited TV series has been mourned as widely and intensely as HBO’s True...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Asleep at the Wheel’s “The Letter That Johnny Walker Read”
Asleep at the Wheel co-founder and leader Ray Benson estimates that around 100 musicians have cycled in and out of his group over the...
news
Blue Rock Artist Ranch: Deep in the Heart of Texas
As Texas’ music mecca, Austin has developed a healthy recording scene to service the ever-growing number of acts who have grown up there or,...
Facilities
Studio Trilogy: Recording Oasis in Downtown SF
Located smack dab in the heart of San Francisco’s ultra-creative and growing SOMA (South of Market) district, on the edge of downtown, Studio Trilogy...
news
Chris Dugan: From Nu-Tone to JingleTown
It was one of those right place, right time situations. Chris Dugan and his partner, Willie Samuels, had been recording local punk, metal and...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Track: New Riders of the Purple Sage’s “Dirty Business”
After psychedelic music had its heyday in the late 1960s, many musicians decided to take a trip sideways down country roads. The Flying Burrito...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Track: Lou Reed’s “Dirty Boulevard”
Few songwriters have captured the spirit of New York City better than the late, truly great Lou Reed. Okay, it wasn’t always the most...
Films-TV
Sound for Picture – Ender’s Game: Earth vs. Alien Creatures in Future Space Wars
Ender’s Game, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood’s ambitious and arresting film version of the best-selling 1984 science fiction book of the same name, has deservedly received...
news
Ry Cooder and Friends Captured Live
Ry Cooder recorded his first live album, Showtime, back in 1976 at San Francisco’s intimate Great American Music Hall. His latest, Live in San...
news
Wonder & Lightning: Meet the Duo Behind Janelle Monae and Deep Cotton
What’s in a name? Are the two guys at the other end of my interview phone call Nathaniel Irvin III and Charles Joseph II?...
news
Alejandro Fernandez: Phil Ramone’s Last Hurrah Is an International Hit
In early October, Mexican singing sensation Alejandro Fernandez’s latest album, Confidencias, leaped out of the box to Number One on Billboard’s Latin Pop charts,...
Live Sound
Pink’s Live Sound Crew for 2013
More from Pink FOH mixer Dave Bracey and monitor mixers Horst Hartmann and Jon Lewis
Films-TV
‘Metallica Through the Never’: Sound Helps Tell the Story in 3-D Concert Film
Leave it to Metallica—modern metal monsters with unquestionable integrity and boundless creativity—to come up with a unique twist for their 3-D concert film, Metallica...
news
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...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Billy Joel’s “My Life”
'The Stranger' was Billy Joel's breakthrough, but it was the follow-up, '52nd Street'—which kicks off with "My Life"—that cemented his success.
news
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...
news
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...
Facilities
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...
Facilities
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...
news
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...
Films-TV
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...
news
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...
news
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...
news
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....
news
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...
news
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....
news
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...
news
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...
news
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...
news
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...
news
Oscar Sound 2013: LINCOLN
Andy Nelson (dialog and music), Gary Rydstrom (FX), Ron Judkins (production)
