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A Great Way to experience an angry comment to Tape Op
by Larry Crane
Enjoy a light-hearted animated romp courtesy of xtranormal.com's wonderful service. This is a real comment posted to our blog here. Sure is nice to feel the love.
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Lowell George Documentary
by Geoff Stanfield
I recently found myself diving back into the Little Feat catalog, and came across a documentary on the band's founder, guitarist, and frontman Lowell George, called Feats First - The Life & Music of Lowell George. Music docs, especially on the...
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Release New Album: Flight b741
by Geoff Stanfield
No secret that I am a big fan of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. They first caught my ear in 2017 with their Turkish Psych-Rock flavored album, Flying Microtonal Banana, and I have been a fan ever since. If you asked me what the definitive KGLW...
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A Guided Tour of High Vis’ Guided Tour at Holy Mountain Studios.
by Geoff Stanfield
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...
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I will remix the stupid right outta you
by Vijith Assar
Hipper music bloggers than you're likely to ever find here have been freaking out over surrealist hip hop duo Das Racist for a while now, ever since the Pineapple Express rap tune "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" came out earlier this year. Even...
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The Inaugural Advanced Audio + Application Exchange (A3E) in Boston: A Gear Geek Love Letter
by Andy Hong
This past September, I attended the inaugural A3Exchange in Boston and had one of the most enjoyable conference experiences in years. A small team of forward thinkers, under the leadership of Paul Sitar, is putting together an "exchange" for...
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OneMic Series: Behind the Scenes at Sun Studio
by Geoff Stanfield
John Cuniberti has taken his OneMic Series down south! Here is a look behind the scenes at Sun Studios!
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Great Reads on Recording and Music
by Geoff Stanfield
Here is a list of some of the books on recording and music that we have added to the reading (or re-reading!) queue recently. Are We Still Rolling?by Phill BrownGreat studio session stories about The Rolling Stones, Talk Talk, Hendrix, Led...
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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...