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Tape Op Magazine Presents: Let's Play the Recording Game!

by Larry Crane

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Tape Op Staff Picks 2023!

by Geoff Stanfield

Happy New Year! Now that the dust has settled from the holidays, and most of us are in the 2024 groove, we thought we'd offer a quick look back at some of our favorite releases from 2023. There was a staggering amount of great music released this...

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How Tape Op Works

by Geoff Stanfield

Every few years it seems time to give a brief explanation of how Tape Op Magazine "works." We constantly get letters from folks who are amazed that this magazine arrives to them for free. Well, it's actually very simple: you pay for...

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New Daniel Levitin Book: I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

by Geoff Stanfield

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...

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Album Credits Are Just As Important As the Money We Make

by Larry Crane

Below is a Guest Post from Jim Janik: Album Credits Are Just As Important As the Money We Make (maybe more so) by: Jim Janik Have you ever googled yourself? I have. In fact, I have to. Like many freelancers in the music industry, it's just one of...

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Promote Your Music with Cassette Releases?

by Larry Crane

I just received the first promo cassette in a long time from Odessa Records' Shit Horse. Alright! Wait, what year is it? Fucking A. I have a cassette player in the basement, and I could go down there, grab it, plug it all in and give this a...

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Tape Op Editor/Founder Larry Crane Releases Home Recordings from mid-'80s

by Larry Crane

With the release of Lawrence "Larry" Crane's Craniostomy Vol. Two, Tape Op's founder gives us a glimpse into his home recordings from 1983 to 1985. Cassette decks and odds and ends were harnessed into making these tracks, and revisiting them in...

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Behringer City?

by Larry Crane

Our compatriots over at Australia's fine Audio Technology magazine posted this video of a visit to Behringer City. See Video Here. It's a curious visit and Chris Holder offers some good insight into this man and his company. Thanks to Steven...

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Sufjan Stevens produces John Legend Children’s Album

by Geoff Stanfield

Here’s a fun and upbeat track from an unlikely collaboration between John Legend and Sufjan Stevens. Check out the first single “L-O-V-E”  that features Legend’s wife Chrissy Teigen and their children along with Sufjan...