Profiles
Game Composer Winifred Phillips
If composition terms like “horizontal resequencing” or “vertical layering” aren’t familiar, that’s understandable. They’re not necessarily film-composing terms, but they are part of a...
Rose Cousins And Natural Conclusion
The beauty of Rose Cousins’ new album, Natural Conclusion, is practically on a Joni Mitchell level. She’s a poetic and precise yet fearless artist...
Entrance’s Book Of Changes
“As a musician who gets to write and play the music and sing and produce the album, there are so many artforms that go...
Nathan East
Since the early 1980s, Nathan East has been a go-to session bassist for Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Daft Punk and...
Keegan Dewitt
Keegan DeWitt, the 34-year-old indie rock musician, also composes music for HBO’s Divorce and the upcoming Fox comedy Making History. Handling multiple scoring gigs...
The ‘Asheville Symphony Sessions’
Echo Mountain leads the way on homegrown, full-blown production
Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony
'Singer/songwriter's compositions arranged for orchestra
Cool Spin: H U N G E R, ‘For Love’
For Love, the debut album from Austrian trio H U N G E R, fits easily into the synth pop–based modern rock bracket. All...
BT’s Dropping a New Album—You Name It
Brian Transeau, aka BT, has been a leading figure in EDM for the past several decades, but it would be a mistake to pigeonhole...
Paul Special, Live on the Network
Paul Special is a freelance broadcast music mixer who is regularly found mixing bands for ABC’s Good Morning America at Times Square Studios in...
Cool Spin: Air, ‘Twentyears’
Roughly two decades ago, the French duo Air hit a universally agreeable note with its semi-electronic semi-organic, all lush, dreamy, fluttery pop. The two...
AM & Joey Waronker Unplug on ‘Precious Life’
Los Angeles-based AM and Joey Waronker’s neighborly friendship has turned out a wonderfully analog album, Precious Life, recorded at Waronker’s curated studio occupying an...
Wild Beasts, ‘Boy King’
For its fifth album, Boy King, British group Wild Beasts decamped to Dallas, Texas, to producer and multi-instrumentalist John Congleton’s Elmwood Recording studio. Recording...
Rooney, ‘Washed Away’
Robert Schwartzman mixed and mastered the newest Rooney album, Washed Away, three times with three mastering engineers. The final version, mixed by Dave Trumfio...
We Are Scientists, ‘Helter Seltzer’
We Are Scientists, now pared down to two core members—guitarist/vocalist Keith Murray and bassist Chris Cain—had the good fortune to have their one-time keyboard...
Cool Spin: Pet Shop Boys, ‘Super’
Super marks the second in a reported trilogy of albums the Pet Shop Boys are recording with uber-pop producer Stuart Price. Written in Berlin...
