Jamie Laboz: Music for Television
by Kevin Jones
Unlike other musicians, Jamie Laboz doesn't need to be in the spotlight. It's not like he hasn't had the opportunity to be in the public eye — in the early '90s, his "post-industrial...
interviews
We talk at length with record-makers about how they make records.
Ghetto Recorders: Motor City Secret
by Ryan Pritts
Tucked away smack dab in the middle of two stadiums, the Fox and State theatre complexes, a police station and the rotting corpses of Detroit's once elegant apartment district, lies one of the...
Crowley & Tripp: Behind the Gear with Soundwave Research Labs
by Darron Burke
Chris Regan of Soundwave Research Labs introduced me to Crowley and Tripp microphones (Soundwave Research Labs is the parent company of Crowley and Tripp). He explained that the company had been...
Ed Ackerson
by Eric Furlong
When I found out that I would be moving to Minneapolis, my friend Peter Holmstrom gave me Ed Ackerson's number. He told me Ed was a guy that I would have a lot in common with. In Portland, I had...
The Court and Spark
by Jason Warriner
The recording of my interview with Scott Hirsch begins with a swelling synth note that slowly decays into a repeating delay that gradually fades out. This abstract beginning flows well into our...
Green Pajamas
by Erik 4-A
For the last 20 years Seattle's Green Pajamas have been cranking out great records. Since their debut album, Summer of Lust, in 1984, to their latest releases of Northern Gothic and Through Glass...
Peter King and his one-off vinyl
by Greg Sullivan
About one hour from Christchurch, New Zealand, the small village of Mount Somers is located just before the steep and pristine beginnings of the beautiful Southern Alps. A green, mostly...
Summer At Shatter Creek: From Headgear To Headphones
by David Galvez
People never stop surprising me. A couple of years ago, a neighbor of mine came over to my house and handed me a record he'd been working on. I hardly knew he played music. He never talked about it. I...
Luis Lahav: Dispatch from Israel...
by Eldad Guetta
The interview with Luis Lahav was scheduled for a Wednesday evening. I arrived at his home studio in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv and got my laptop ready to record. I was just about to ask some...
S. Husky Höskulds: Dispatch from LA to Iceland...
by Mr. Bonzai
S. Husky Höskulds is a very gifted engineer, mixer and sound designer. Born in Iceland, he studied audio engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles, and worked as an assistant...
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Mauricio Romero: And finally, all the way from Easter Island!
by Jay Lifton
Discovered by the Dutch on Easter Sunday, 1722, the aptly named Easter Island (Isla De Pascua) is considered to be one of the most remote places on Earth. Approximately a six-hour flight from any...