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We talk at length with record-makers about how they make records.
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...
Deerhoof
by Brad Breeck, Jeff Byron, Tim Byron
"This is a good story to start a Tape Op interview," Chris Cohen of Deerhoof tells us as we press record on the tape recorder. "I just learned yesterday that you can use inserts in Pro Tools...
Matt Kelley: Hip-hop master keeps it in sync.
by Leigh Marble
From Digital Underground and Tupac to George Clinton and Jello Biafra, Matt Kelley has engineered some fantastic sessions at San Francisco's famed Hyde Street studios. He's a total pro who knows...