Check this joint out. Wow! Thanks to Alex Maiolo for the link!
A Guided Tour of High Vis’ Guided Tour at Holy Mountain Studios. By Sam Retzer Engineer Stanley Gravett is retreating down the stairs to Holy Mountain Studio after being ‘bullied’ upstairs at the Crypt of the Wizard record...
I think it's for real? Is it? What is it? Why? See Barry Rudolph's report on Treeverb
I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that we have finally published Phill Brown's book. In issue #12 Larry Crane and Chris Eckman interviewed Phill Brown, a producer/engineer with credits like Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, Sly Stone, Led...
Our pal Howard Bilerman will be interviewing legendary producer Bob Johnston in Montreal coming up. Should be a real hoot!
Larry interviewed Jack White back in Tape Op #82, and we went inside his Third Man Records pressing plant in issue #127. White just released his sixth solo album, No Name. It is a great listen filled with whisps of Zeppelin, swamp blues, Detroit...
I dropped by Powell’s City of Books last night to say hello to Daniel Levitin and hear him talk about his new book, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine. I interviewed him in Tape Op #74 way back in 2009. There’s a lot of...
I finally figured out what makes for a successful tracking session: simply eliminate the variables. On one level this could be seen as pre-production combined with concise decision making. Certainly those can help - but what I'm talking about is...
At Jackpot! we use the service from Greendisk. They send us a cardboard box and we toss used CD-R/DVD-R media, cords, old cell phones, cables and printer cartridges. A pretty cool service and not too expensive.
Steve AlbiniRemembered by Larry Crane On Jan 19, 1987, I clambered aboard a yacht in Emeryville, CA, to interview Steve Albini and the band Big Black for BravEar Magazine, a conversation that unfortunately was never published due to the mag folding...
