2015
Jim Lauderdale, ‘Soul Searching’
The latest from Grammy-winning artist/songwriter Jim Lauderdale is a double-album of original songs offering two takes on soul music: On Disc 1, Lauderdale went...
Profiles
2015
Josh Hoyer’s ‘Cooked Raw’
Soul singer/keyboardist Josh Hoyer and band capture the essence of live performance on their new album by recording direct-to-disc in Welcome to 1979 Studio...
2015
Cécile McLorin Salvant, ‘For One to Love’
With a voice so versatile and beautiful, there’s nothing this young jazz singer can’t do. On her second album, For One to Love, she...
2015
Cool Spin: Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge, ‘Twelve Reasons to Die II’
Prolific super-producer Adrian Younge personally crusades against mass-produced hip-hop and R&B by playing analog-only instruments recorded to analog tape with no plug-ins. He’s the...
2015
Mercury Rev’s ‘The Light In You’
For Mercury Rev’s eighth studio album, The Light In You, vocalist Jonathan Donahue, recorded his initial ideas at home into a 1970s mono cassette...
2015
Metric’s Daily Jams Create ‘Pagans in Vegas’
Over the course of six albums, Canadian foursome Metric has evolved into a heavy-hitting contender in modern rock. Which makes the group’s resident gearhead,...
2015
Jaga Jazzist Records ‘Starfire’
Jaga Jazzist is a prog-rock band, a jam band, a jazz ensemble and an electronic outfit all in one. The eight-piece Swedish group records...
2015
James Taylor, ‘Before This World’
James Taylor’s Before This World, out this month on Concord Records, is the Grammy Award–winning singer/songwriter’s first album of original music since 2002’s October...
2015
George and Chico Freeman at Southport for ‘All in the Family’
Guitarist George Freeman has crossed paths with Southport Records owner/engineer Bradley Parker-Sparrow many times since Sparrow founded the label in 1977. Freeman’s latest album,...
2015
Cool Spin: Foals, ‘What Went Down’
For What Went Down (Warner Music), the follow-up to Foals’ career-defining album, Holy Fire, the Oxford, UK quintet decamped to Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the South...
2015
Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut
What you hear is not what you see with Corsica Arts Club. The Los Angeles-based duo of Arash Parsee and Brendan Thompson (expanded to...
2015
Asleep at the Wheel, ‘Still the King’
Beloved Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel have been carrying the torch for the late Bob Wills’ legacy almost as long as Wills...
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Sessions & Studio News
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Producer Roy Thomas Baker tracked and overdubbed Split Shift’s latest release (NoName/Elektra) in Glenwood Place‘s (Burbank) Studio 1 with engineer Daniel Kresco. Ziggy Marley and producer/engineer Ross Hogarth had Studio 2...
2015
Ben Lee, ‘Love Is the Great Rebellion’
Ben Lee has released 11 solo albums, in addition to his band work with Noise Addict. The newest, Love Is the Great Rebellion, is...
2015
Leon Bridges, ‘Coming Home’
“The clothes make the man,” the saying goes. In the case of 25-year-old Forth Worth, Texas native Leon Bridges, clothes kicked off his career....
2015
Cool Spin: Penguin Prison, ‘Lost in New York’
In the four years since Penguin Prison’s self-titled debut, New York-sprung dance-pop has become all the more established by the likes of MGMT and...
2015
Jillian Speer’s ‘Daggers & Suede’
The urban-meets-singer/songwriter sound of Jillian Speer’s wonderful new EP gives the singer’s soulful songs just the right edge, and it all starts with her...
2015
Calexico’s ‘Edge of the Sun’
When people know your band particularly for mixing musical styles from myriad decades and cultures, and you’re about to start your ninth studio album...
2015
Mix Regional News: A Note From Memphis—David Porter’s ‘The Classics’ at Stonebridge Mastering
Memphis-based mastering engineer Gebre Waddell recently mastered producer/songwriter David Porter’s project The Classics at his Stonebridge Mastering studio. Porter is best known for songwriting...
2015
Composer Shota Nakama and His Video Game Orchestra
It may seem hard to believe, but the videogame industry is in a graying stage. You can set the time it reached maturity anywhere...
2015
William Elliott Whitmore, ‘Radium Death’
On his own with a banjo, or fronting a rock ’n’ roll band, singer/songwriter William Elliott Whitmore sings about trouble—in love, from the government,...
2015
Cool Spin: Hot Chip, ‘Why Make Sense?’
With each passing year, the public’s collective ears are better prepped for sounds like the experimental ones of Hot Chip. In turn, Hot Chip...
2015
Built to Spill, ‘Untethered Moon’
Built to Spill’s first album release in five years, Untethered Moon, features a couple of new bandmembers; since the group’s previous release, There Is...
news
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Designed by architect Frank Gehry and featuring an acoustical design by Dr. Yasuhisa Toyota, the Walt Disney Concert Hall opened on October 23, 2003,...
2015
Boxed In Debut
Oli Bayston works well amongst clutter. For his latest one-man project, Boxed In, clutter helped streamline his entire recording process, and his sound. Bayston...
2015
Avid Dancer, ‘1st Bath’
For Jacob Summers, the solo artist behind the entity Avid Dancer, it always comes back to drums. Picking up the drums as a high...
2015
The Very Best, ‘Makes A King’
While many producers might toy with the romantic notion of setting up a portable studio in the African bush, few actually do it. To...
Current Issue
Cool Spin: Turbo Fruits, ‘No Control’
Turbo Fruits’ fourth album, No Control (Melvin Records/Thirty Tigers), starts in a psychedelic haze with the sweet-smelling ’60s West Coast throwback, “Show Me Something...
2015
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, ‘The Third’
For their latest album, The Third, Durham siblings Kitty, Daisy & Lewis moved their home studio from the two tiny back rooms of their...
2015
Cool Spin: Noel Gallagher, ‘Chasing Yesterday’
On his second solo album, Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records), one time Oasis main man Noel Gallagher has progressed more than he did over...
2015
A Place to Bury Strangers, ‘Transfixiation’
You would be well advised to bring your most effective earplugs to a A Place to Bury Strangers show. The New York-based nu-gazer trio,...
