Self-described anti-anti-folk artist Richard McGraw will perform at NYC’s American Folk Art Museum on Friday, March 5th. This performance is part of an Underwater New York event to celebrate the work of Nineteenth century maritime painter Thomas Chambers. The evening will include Shipwreck Stories and songs at the American Folk Art Museum’s Free Music Friday. […]
Native Instruments announced its latest software instrument yesterday, “Alicia’s Keys.” Developed in collaboration with Keys and her personal engineer Ann Mincieli, the virtual piano embodies the sound of Alicia Keys’ signature Yamaha C3 Neo grand piano. Alicia’s Keys can be heard all over on Keys’ latest album, The Element of Freedom and on her current […]
Stratosphere Sound’s been hosting non-stop tracking and mixing sessions in its Neve 8068-equipped Studio A, including Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, who recorded and mixed two songs with Stratosphere chief engineer Geoff Sanoff, and NYC’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who tracked an upcoming single with British producer/engineer James Brown. In other […]
Blastwave FX has released new additional sound effects to update its SDS (Sound Design Solution) libraries: SONOPEDIA, The BLASTDRIVE, .wavFX, and TITLEWAVE. Blastwave FX’s sound effects libraries are “Lifetime Sound Design Solutions” delivered on Glyph GT 050Q drives that feature high definition sound effects, the Blastwave FX Search Engine, and free (downloadable) updates for Life. […]
Joe Lambert mastered Black 47‘s latest record, Bankers & Gangsters, at his DUMBO facility, Joe Lambert Mastering. The NYC-based Celtic/folk rockers will play three CD release parties at their longtime haunt, Connolly’s, this month. Lambert also mastered The Fiery Furnaces’ newest album release Take Me Round Again, for Thrill Jockey Records. The Brooklyn formed brother-sister […]
From his Chez Bob Studios in NYC, Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum producer/mixer Bob Power (De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu) has been working on projects with Universal France jazz chanteuse, Laika Fatien, DJ/producer collab N.A.S.A. and the upcoming J. Dilla concert-tribute DVD box set, Timeless. Power spent the majority of January mixing […]
Based in NYC, The Food Network recently moved from stereo to 5.1 surround sound. With the help of the Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG), Food Network revamped the HD broadcast production control rooms in its 110,000 sq-ft digital production facility, located in the Chelsea Market building, for 5.1 surround sound. Bill Jarett, Food Network’s VP of […]
Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, and the cast of Finian’s Rainbow are just a few of the many recording sessions that recently went down at Avatar Studios. Arctic Monkeys recorded a live performance for WRXP Sessions at Avatar’s Studio A. Matt Pinfield, DJ of NYC’s WRXP “The Rock Show” with Leslie Fram, produced the session. Claudius […]
SAADI is Boshra al Saadi, the former guitarist/vocalist for NYC female led, pop-punk band, Looker. Her upcoming 12” EP, Bad City, will be released on March 9 through NYC-based Serious Business Records. The same label where Looker began, Serious Business provided SAADI a familiar recording platform for the newly cultivated, electro-pop sound that can be […]