Tape Log

This new five-episode video series focuses on using affordable gear to record a full-band performance in the kitchen, living room, and bedrooms of a typical single-family house. The series is hosted...

We interviewed Sasami Ashworth back in Tape Op#157 and she’s also featured in our new book, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers. Now, we’re excited to announce a new podcast series that...

We have an interview with Sylvan Esso coming up in our November issue [Tape Op #176], but in the meantime check out this new live session, Live at Sid the Cat Auditorium, June 2026, exclusively...

The "new" Car Seat Headrest album, Teen of Denial (Joe’s Story), has been out since May 20th, 2026, and (as usual) the web is filled with paranoia, misinformation, and assumptions. I get...

The Grateful Dead show at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on June 30th, 1985 has a star next to it on many Deadheads' lists. The 14,000 capacity venue, designed by Frank Gehry...

The sunshine memories of a long-lost Laurel Canyon have continued to seep into Beck Hansen's bones and reflect back through a reverb-soaked pool, morphing into the shape of song forms and sheets...

This new release from Adrian Younge [Tape Op#119] is a modern day Afrobeat offering that has some modern sensibilities, but a foot firmly planted in the era of the genre's classics from Fela...

Our new book, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, is out now and you can find it at your favorite book store and online! If you want to buy a copy online, we’d appreciate it if you buy...

We did an article on Daniele Luppi back in Tape Op#40, and since then he’s released quite a bit of music including the very cool 2011 Rome collaboration with Danger Mouse, Jack White [Tape...

In April of this year, Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, was in San Francisco for 11 performances of his piece for the San Francisco Ballet, Mere Mortals. I caught one of the shows and it was...