Interviews | No. 172
By Geoff Stanfield and Emily Paige Pereira
The story of Regina Spektor is one of a truly self-made artist. In 1989, at nine years old, Spektor and her family emigrated from Moscow to the Bronx in New York. Her love and affinity for playing the piano found her studying in high school at the Manhattan School of Music, and as she...
Few people in the music industry have been involved in as many influential records as Russ Titelman. As a teenager, he was making music and running around with the likes of Gerry Goffin, Carole King, and Phil Spector. As a staff producer for Warner Bros. Records, he made albums for...
Now based in New Orleans but raised in the Bronx, Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff has crisscrossed the continental United States countless times since the age of 17 – they even spent two years in a hobo band, Dead Man Street Orchestra, touring by freight train. And...
This interview originally ran as a podcast in December of 2022. Since that time the band has released a new album, A La Sala.
Texas trio Khruangbin have paired with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré, for new release Ali. The result is an...
Belleville, New Jersey, is a deceptively quiet enclave up the river from Newark. A beautiful mural here, a grungy secondhand shop there – it's a collision of worlds. A bit like the mild-mannered Evetts himself, who politely offers coffee before dissecting the aggressive sounds he...
One of my favorite records of 2024 to date is Phosphorescent's Revelator. It's a beautifully recorded album, featuring Matthew Houck's timeless songwriting and lyrics plus gorgeous arrangements. I was hooked the first time I heard the title track. I recently picked up a...
Known as the Sonic Sorceress, composer and synthesist Lisa Bella Donna has a talent for fusing the esoteric with the technical. Working from a remote Appalachian home-base, the composer's days are spent mapping sounds in dense woods, drinking cowboy coffee, and cooking tin foil...
A fascinating person, Blake Morgan is a songwriter, producer, engineer, studio owner, recording artist, music rights activist, and the owner of ECR Music Group, an independent record label. Living in New York City, he has built up a strong following with his music. ECR works as a...
There is an old saying: "Only back up what you can't afford to lose." As musicians and audio personnel, I believe most of us can't afford to lose any of our product (aka data). Whether making music is a hobby or a profession, the material being created has...
Releasing his first album in 1982, Steve Roach has continued to make hundreds of records in his personal Timeroom studios over the years, while also touring his music. Additionally, he produces records and collaborates with artists from all over the world. A lazy listener might lump his...
With a list of credits and Grammy awards with artists such as D'Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington, Common, Angelique Kidjo, Alicia Keys, and Jon Batiste, one might assume Russell Elevado is a hard-working producer/engineer/mixer. That assumption would be correct. We caught up...
About ten years ago, New Jersey-born producer and songwriter Jennifer Decilveo pivoted from a degree and career in finance to begin a life in the Los Angeles music scene. Since then, she has collaborated with a multitude of artists, including: Amos Lee, Anne-Marie, Beth Ditto, Bat for...
In our interview with Mike Bridavsky (see Mike interview here) of Bloomington's Russian Recording, he mentioned his very unique, heavily modified Sphere Eclipse Type III console. I was curious about this console and the rebuilding project, so I dropped Mike a line.