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Intro / TOC #160

What are the personal rewards of making and recording music? Or, maybe more tellingly, what are the rewards of recording other people's music?

Steve Albini & Lil BUB — Mark Pallman from Lil BUB's Big SHOW

In this issue, with Kyle Nicolaides' "What is Success in Music?" piece, we see how misunderstanding what success and fame truly are (or could be) can sometimes be debilitating. In John Baccigaluppi's "One Degree" End Rant, we get a perspective on how our day-to-day recording studio work can, at times, become intertwined with important albums we've always admired. In our interview with Mike Bridavsky, he discusses taking a few years doing less recording to take care of his special cat, Lil BUB, and coming back to the studio with a renewed sense of purpose.