Goose with D. James Goodwin

BY JULIANA BERNSTEIN, GEOFF STANFIELD

Connecticut-based Goose is a band with what might seem a meteoric rise into the public consciousness, but they have been building a loyal fan base the same way that artists like the Grateful Dead and Phish had before them, with nearly a decade of endless touring. Their latest release, Everything Must Go, and 2022's Dripfield, were both produced and engineered by D. James Goodwin [Tape Op #138]. I caught up with Goose frontman, Rick Mitarotonda and Goodwin to chat about the recording of Everything Must Go, capturing the energy of a live band experience, experimentation in the studio, and D. James Goodwin's quest to make the greatest jam band studio album of all time. This interview is also available as #107 of the Tape Op Podcast.

Rob Evans: Over the Moon with the Dave Matthews Band

BY SAM RETZER, AARON FARRINGTON

Rob and I used to warm up for high school jazz band practices with an endless vamp of “Too Many Puppies” by Primus on drums and bass, respectively. In our small town of Waynesboro, Virginia, the turn of the ‘90s saw the thump of Led Zeppelin morph into the churn of Slint as we discovered the joys of home recording. Fast forward 30 years, and after two decades with the Dave Matthews Band, Rob has built a life within the recording studio. Working with the group on a number of studio and live releases – many at Dave's Haunted Hollow Studio – Rob has also helped to preserve the band’s massive archive of live recordings. Handling a large share of the production on their 2023 LP, Walk Around the Moon, one can’t help but wonder if Rob’s influence rubbed off on some of those harder rock grooves. We walked around Garden City, Long Island, to discuss Rob’s passage from basement to stadium.

h. pruz: Red sky at morning

BY FELIX WALWORTH, JOHN BACCIGALUPPI

Jim-E Stack

BY GRAHAM TOLBERT, LARRY CRANE

In 2025, Jim-E Stack (born James Harmon Stack) had three big releases out – Bon Iver's SABLE, fABLE, Lorde's Virgin, and Aminé's 13 Months of Sunshine – that he'd worked on as a producer and co-writer. Living in L.A., he's also worked with Charli XCX, Empress Of, Haim, and others. His attention to setting up open creative recording situations and following through to overseeing the mix process yields some amazing results.