Check out this interview with our own Larry Crane in Spanish language audio magazine Audioforo!
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Tape Op Magazine Presents: Let's Play the Recording Game!
by Larry Crane
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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...
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RIP Hal Willner 1956-2020
by Geoff Stanfield
Eric Liljestrand remembers his friend and working partner Hal Willner Hal and I spent countless hours, days, weeks, months in dark rooms all over creating some of the most original albums and film scores the world will ever hear. A solid third of...
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New album and video, The Way Out of Easy, from Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
by Geoff Stanfield
The Way Out of Easy is the second album Jeff Parker (Tortoise) has released that was recorded live by Bryce Gonzales at The Enfield Tennis Academy to a stereo Nagra tape machine on a hand built tube console that he designed and built. Besides Parker...
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New Music from Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs
by Geoff Stanfield
We interviewed Mike Campbell for issue #150, right around the time he and his band, The Dirty Knobs released their second LP, External Combustion. A year on, the band has released a new collection of music, Vagabonds, Virgins and Misfits. The Dirty...
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A letter from Tape Op's Publisher
by John Baccigaluppi
Dear Tape Op Reader, We wanted to let you, the folks we make this magazine for, aware of a fundamental change in our business. Short version: We are cutting our ad rates nearly in half. Why? Here's the long version: Tape Op is an...
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I am Really, Really Old Now
by Larry Crane
"First off, I really enjoy reading Tape Op. I have read it since I was in 8th grade (2001)." I never imagined I'd get an email that began like this. I will be 46 in May. Tape Op entered its 14th year in April. Jackpot! Recording Studio is over 14...
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I Have A Credit Problem
by Count
Over the last few years we've seen an explosion of online music services. Pandora, iTunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, Soundcloud and dozens of other platforms are touted as groundbreaking ways to deliver music to listeners. But this success is on the...
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Press for Tape Op Book and int. with Larry
by Larry Crane
One of the local Portland weeklies did a blurb on me and the Tape Op book for the reading tonight. Mercury