Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers is Out Now

Our new book, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, is out now and you can find it at your favorite book store and online!

If you want to buy a copy online, we’d appreciate it if you buy it directly from our publisher, the fine folks at Akashic Books:
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/making-music/

It’s also available at these online retailers:

Powell's Books
Bookshop.org
Barnes and Noble
Amazon

Here’s more info on the book from Larry’s intro in Tape Op #173:

“We're proud to announce the upcoming publication of a new Tape Op book! Titled, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, it will be published by our pals at Akashic Books in New York. We're hosting a series of books under the Making Music title, covering engineers and artists as well. Interviews will include content from our print edition and podcast, plus new thoughts, intros, and extensive editing – think of it as a remastered Greatest Hits collection of Tape Op!

We're very excited to have a book as one of the ways to celebrate 30 years of doing this magazine. It's quite different from the two compendium books we did years ago – 2000's Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording, and its Vol. II companion in 2007 – as it's focused (as much as one can) on a topic and pulls from the last 30 years of content. It’s been an incredible journey so far, and were looking forward to sharing more with you.”

We’re also doing a series of events around the country this fall, see below for more info:

Tape Op Magazine's Making Music Book Events 2026

Larry Crane and Geoff Stanfield
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
September 17th 2026 at 7:00 PM
https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/6152720260917

John Baccigaluppi and SASAMI (artist, producer)
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera,  CA  94925
October 3rd 2026 at 11:00 AM
https://bookpassage.com/event/john-baccigaluppi-making-music

Larry Crane and John McEntire (producer/engineer/Tortoise)
Powell's Books
1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209
October 9th 2026 at 7:00 PM
https://www.powells.com/events/larry-crane-9781636143118

Larry Crane and Tony Visconti (producer David Bowie, T.Rex)
Rough Trade NYC
30 Rockefeller Center Concourse Level, New York, NY 10112
November 5th 2026 at 6 PM
https://www.roughtrade.com/en-us/stores/below

Larry Crane and John Baccigaluppi
Book Soup
8818 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
January 30th 2027 at 4 PM
https://booksoup.com/events