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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...
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...
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?...
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,...
More from Pink FOH mixer Dave Bracey and monitor mixers Horst Hartmann and Jon Lewis
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...
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...
'The Stranger' was Billy Joel's breakthrough album, but it was the follow-up, '52nd Street,' which kicks off with "My Life" that cemented his...
Everything old is new again, and that includes traditional Italian folk music, which is being brilliantly revived by an octet called Newpoli, made up...
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...
When it comes to videogame audio, Brian Schmidt has pretty much done it all. Besides working on more than 130 titles for most of...
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...
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...
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...
When the first Extreme Games were staged by ESPN at the end of June 1995 at various sites in Rhode Island and Vermont, no...
For a lot of people, it takes awhile for our records to really sink in,” says Aaron Dessner of the moody Brooklyn rock band...
Though Paris Combo has been popular in France for more than 15 years, the group has had limited exposure in the United States so...
Just three albums into what is already a hugely successful career, the New York indie band Vampire Weekend continue to surprise and confound expectations....
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...
For The Old School, bluegrass great Peter Rowan assembled an incredible cast to interpret 10 of his engaging original tunes and a traditional spiritual....
I trust Bryan Ferry. He has impeccable taste and is consistently imaginative. So when word came down that his new album would consist of...
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...
One of the surprise hits of the last holiday season was a recording by a group of cloistered monastic nuns singing religious songs and...
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...
Not too many people these days know about the Chamber Brothers, but when their first Columbia album, The Time Has Come, was released in...
Andy Nelson (dialog and music), Gary Rydstrom (FX), Ron Judkins (production)
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...
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...
Extended interview with Grace Potter and Jim Scott.
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...
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...
