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Alan Sparhawk Releases White Roses, My God
by Geoff Stanfield
The husband and wife partnership of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker will forever be remembered for their work in the band Low. Their remarkable vocal harmonies always told a story of a long and storied relationship that went far beyond the music and...
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ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS conference in L.A. May 11-14
by Larry Crane
This looks to be an interesting event. I'd go if I was in the area that week! -Larry ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS 45th Annual Conference - May 11-14, 2011 Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles One hundred and thirty...
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The Rock & Roll Camp for Girls - Portland, OR
by Larry Crane
My friend, sts is the Program Director and an instructor at The Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls. They’re currently building up their recording program, Rock Camp Studio and the "Recording Engineer Track" studies and are looking for...
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Women and the Grammy for “Producer of the Year, Non-Classical”
by Larry Crane
***This is a guest "re-post" from the SoundGirls website (courtesy of SoundGirls and Ainjel Emme)*** THE DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS CEILING: Women and the Grammy for "Producer of the Year, Non-Classical" by Ainjel Emme (originally...
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Put Down the Phone
by Geoff Stanfield
It wasn’t that long ago that when you went into the studio you basically disappeared from the rest of the world into a place with few (or no) windows, and low light. Where time seemed to have a way of getting distorted, finding yourself rolling...
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Larry Reading from Tape Op Book Vol. II at Powell's
by Larry Crane
Here I am at Powell's City of Books in Portland doing the book reading. Quite fun to get up and make an ass of myself in a book store. Thanks to Leigh Marble and Ben for playing sweet music, to Kevin Sampsell for arranging this for Powell's, and to...
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Cancer Awareness
by Larry Crane
Craig Schumacher, one of the country's best engineer/producers and our intrepid gear reviewer and former head of TapeOpCon has been dealing with head and neck cancer recently. He's doing better after treatment but needs help catching up on bills...
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New Album from Caribou: Honey
by Geoff Stanfield
For his new release, Honey, Caribou's Dan Snaith (Tape Op #35, #105) wears his Detroit techno influences on his sleeve, and uses AI to explore and reimagine vocals as well as manipulate his voice, to create an album of dance tracks that...