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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...

Henry Hirsch: On Lenny Kravitz, Helios and Jay Z

by Dave Amels, Larry Crane

Henry Hirsch is best known as Lenny Kravitz's collaborator and engineer. The partnership has continued for twenty years and is as strong as ever. What started as a session booked with Lenny's band...

Richard Lloyd: From Television to Matthew Sweet

by Larry Crane

Richard Lloyd is best known as one of the guitarists in Television, and along with Tom Verlaine, Fred Smith and Billy Ficca created NYC's favorite guitar art, punk, groundbreakers — whose...

Chris Butler: Wire recording is back!

by Greg Di Gesu

Chris Butler, a Cleveland native living in Hoboken, New Jersey, is known as the pen and the guitar behind The Waitresses' eighties' classics, "I Know What Boys Like" and "Christmas Wrapping". He...

Aspen Pittman: Behind the Gear with Groove Tubes

by Garrett Haines

The name Aspen Pittman is synonymous with vacuum tubes. But it's one thing to hawk a product, and another to understand the physics behind its performance. While working as a salesman in the first...

Camper Van Beethoven and their recording odyssey

by Adam Selzer

Camper Van Beethoven was one of the first 'indie' bands as we know the term to imply. They were releasing their own records in the mid 1980s, a very unusual thing at the time. The band incorporated...

Steve Evetts

by Jesse Cannon

Punk rock is often considered a genre of slackers pretending they are doing something exceptional, but actually doing something pretty insignificant. Producers often have to make excuses to justify...

Lost and Safe with The Books

by Cameron Macdonald

Whenever a rave flyer adorned with hentai-anime lasses, regurgitated-Lifesaver colors and fudged-up vector shapes blows onto my leg, I think of The Books and exhale. The NYC/Massachusetts duo make...

John Cuniberti: From the Dead Kennedys to Joe Satriani

by Allen Whitman

John Cuniberti grew up in the sixties in East Bay, that oft-forgotten "other half" of the San Francisco Bay Area. An audio autodidact, he followed his muse from the archetypical teenage...