Don Dixon is probably best known for his work with REM on murmur and Reckoning but his other production credits include such great albums and artists as the smithereens(Green Thoughts being...
Don Zientara is a name I became familiar with simply by seeing it over and over again on record, and then CD, liner notes. From his Inner Ear Studios, he's been engineering and producing...
My own experience in the recording world goes back about eight years to the summer before my senior year of high school. It was then that I bought a Sansui 6 track cassette recorder, and began...
The great thing about self-released cassettes is that anyone can put them out without spending too much money. Photocopy some J-cards, dub a few tapes on the home stereo, and you're done. ...
Drive through Hartford, Connecticut, and you can't help but notice the giant blue onion sitting atop a tower in an industrial complex. The onion was a gift from Czar Nicholas to Samual Colt...
Stop me if you've heard this one before. A couple of L.A. rich kids with too much time on their hands buy some recording equipment, rent a space and start recording their own album, which they...
MORE LETTERS? Hey Hey Larry, Wyatt here writing from San Francisco, CA. It was good to see you in Chico and since I didn't have a chance to talk to you further, I'm writing now. I'm...
Mark Robinson does the remix thing on the Multiple Cat with surprisingly good results. The four tracks on this CD never fall into looped house tedium, they instead retain the shape of...
These two albums are real-deal-tear-it-up blues done the old fashioned way, with just a touch of 90's tongue-in-cheek wise-guy attitude thrown in (which makes them all the more authentic). Super...
A friend of mine who is a huge Polvo fan recently said to me, "the new Polvo sucks! It sounds like Led Zeppelin." Polvo has finally departed from their trademark bendy/angular guitar work...
It's not often that I get sent a CD I can listen to. It's even less often it's something I want to listen to. This is an exception. It's dreamy, semi-ambient late night stuff that...
Hot Damn! A long time ago my pals the Maroons got me together with their friend Brian Berg who was thinking of starting a studio, and interested in my participation. Nothing ever came of...
In perfect timing, Rick Bain (of Portland pop superstars Spin Jupiter Spin) has released a home recorded 4 track version of Pet Sounds all played by himself. This CD rocks. He did it with...
So here it is, four discs devoted to what has been called the greatest album ever and one of the finest productions ever made. There's a "new" stereo mix, vocal-only mixes, highlights of...
