Read the Tape Op interview with Annie Clark
Watch the video for "Broken Man"
August 17th marked the release of a new Joe Meek restrospective. The full album's title is Joe Meek: From Taboo to Telstar 1962: A Year In The Life of 304 Holloway Road (Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes). This is not necessarily "new" music from...
Dear Tape Op Readers, As you know many of our family, friends and colleagues on the East Coast have been hit hard by Hurricane Sandy last week. Led by Ken Bogdanowicz of Sound Toys, several of our advertisers have joined together to help raise...
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...
Eddie Ashworth dropped me a line about the work he and many other scholars are doing with the Art of Record Production folks. Be sure to read The Journal for the Art of Record Production online. It's densely full of articles, interviews, reviews...
Well friends, there were just too many great albums this year, and so here is the "Rest of the Best". Andy and John both had super extensive year end favorites lists and make up the bulk of this list. I will need a good chunk of 2023 to dig in to...
I recently wrote about Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Records, and their excellent vinyl (and CD) reissues. I have become a huge fan of their releases, especially the attention to detail and sonic quality of their pressings. On December...
In issue #62, Josh Boughey reviewed the Monome 40h, a minimalist button-and-light interface which can be used to run musical applications. It's absolutely captivating in its simplicity; I'm writing this as an outsider, but as far as I can tell, the...
At our Tape Op Party during SXSW last week the fine folks at Sound Toys announced and gave away a new plug-in - the Devil-Loc! You have to grab this before March 31, 2011. Act now! Go here for the free Devil-Loc Plug-in Sharing Code:...
It's officially December, so go ahead and break out the holiday music! Here are a few favs getting spins in the Tape Op homes. Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You a Swingin' ChristmasListen on Spotify Trio West - Holiday...
