Interviews
Jason Cox: Will Produce for Food
by Brian McTear
When Larry first mentioned the possibility of interviewing my friend Jason Cox, former Studio Red producer/engineer for bands like Bardo Pond, Varnaline, Space Needle, and others, ...
When Larry first mentioned the possibility of interviewing my friend Jason Cox, former Studio Red producer/engineer for bands like Bardo Pond, Varnaline, Space Needle, and others, ...
Fuck. Okay, here's the story. I saw Fuck play a show a while before this interview. I was unimpressed, but several people said they loved their records and that the show was great...
WHY I HATE RECORDING & EQ So, there's only really a handful of publications that deal with the wild world of putting music to tape. You all know them I'm...
Disclaimer #1: Do not open up your amplifier unless you know what you are doing! Tube amps work with lethal voltages that can remain in the amp even after it is unplugged. If you don't know how...
In the spring of 1983, a friend and I purchased a reel-to-reel four track. Up to that point, we had been doing multi-track recording by bouncing back and forth between a cassette deck and a boom...
Grandaddy is a band I knew very little about until recently. I had heard rumors of a band locked away in their own studio in Modesto, a farming town in California's Central Valley, making...
When I moved into Cleveland a little over a year ago, I had a limited knowledge of the current music scene. Most of the local music I picked up was the usual crap you'd find in any other...
From the mouth of Peter Jefferies: "I've devised a method of bouncing down... the original tracks (usually 1 to 3 tracks) are on the 4 track. They go from there, through a graphic equaliser, to...
Its always exhilarating to hear a record that actually escorts you on a 45 minute journey- with attention to dynamics, moods, instrumentation, and recording aesthetics from one track to the...
Spoke appears to be more of a sketch pad for musical inspirations rather than a complete project which in turn makes it come across as unassuming and inviting. Calexico is mainly John Convertino...
Mark Edwards is sort of a one man band turned band these days. I've got a slew of MDID releases out from years and years before, many recorded at the Beat Farm (RIP) which was a cool studio run...
I know I also reviewed a Tobin Sprout CD just a few issues back but here's a new one. If leaving the Guided By Voices fold means he'll be able to make more of these little masterpieces then I'm...
This is the second Lenola CD to be reviewed in these pages, and there's a reason why. These boys do everything themselves, from recording on their home 8 track and putting out their own records,...
The Marinernine is a band which contains Brian McTear and Jason Knight, those lovable oafs from the Trip to Athens story from Tape Op #5. I was expecting some sort of rock band thing here but...
Okay, last issue we ran a review of the previous Sonic Youth CD EP, Anagrama. Here's the corrections to that review: Sonic Youth now have their own 16 track studio. It is manned by...
First of all, Colin Newman was in Wire, and if you don't understand their greatness I pity you. Second of all, most of his solo albums are damn good. Third of all, he's into electronics,...
Why is it I always dig these New Zealand bands so much? This is David Mulcahy (from the underrated JPS Experience) with his snazzy power trio. Anyway, you've got to love a band that's not...