Matt Wallace: Journey to Producer Island
by Geoff Stanfield
Laurie Nelson Roll up your sleeves, make a mess, get dirty, get fired, get re-hired, tear it down, and build it all back up again. Then make it better than it was before. That could be a...
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Daniel Lanois: The Sound Takes Over
by Geoff Stanfield
Daniel Lanois' career reads like an enviable work of fantasy. From his early projects with Brian Eno and Harold Budd on their genre defining "ambient" recordings, to a pivotal role on U2 classics like...
The Many Faces of Luke Temple
by John Baccigaluppi, Geoff Stanfield
Here Photo: At The Old Western waiting for the rest of the musicians... Luke Temple wears several masks and many hats. Since 2005 he has released five solo records under his own name, four as Here...
Moses Sumney: The Path To Aromanticism
by Geoff Stanfield
If music lives in the spaces between the notes, consider Moses Sumney your guide through the stillness. A relative newcomer to the scene, his live shows in Los Angeles attracted an impressive list of...
Matt Chamberlain: Perfect Timing
by Geoff Stanfield
Over the last 20 years Matt Chamberlain has contributed to a staggering variety of recordings including David Bowie, Tori Amos, Frank Ocean, Miranda Lambert, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple,...
Tycho: Music That Sounds Like Memories
by Geoff Stanfield
Tycho’s Scott Hansen is a busy man. As the frontman, principle songwriter, producer, as well as the creator of the band’s album art and live visuals, he has no shortage of things on his...
Juana Molina: All the Way to Halo - Process and Loops
by Geoff Stanfield
A major star in her native land, via her successful acting and music careers, Argentina’s Juana Molina should be a household name in the rest of the world. In 2000 a friend passed along a copy...
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Scoring Luke Cage and Beyond
by Geoff Stanfield
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad are established artists and producers in their own right, and each have contributed to an enviable stack of recording projects including A Tribe Called Quest, J...
Gus Seyffert: Norah Jones, Beck, Michael Kiwanuka
by Geoff Stanfield
Gus Seyffert may not be a household name, but his behind the scenes involvement would make you scratch your head and wonder why. From playing live and/or in session with The Black Keys, Norah Jones,...
Billy Bush: One Hundred Percent - Garbage, Grizfolk, Jake Bugg
by Geoff Stanfield
Billy Bush has made his love of music and technological curiosity into an already storied career. He has been a record thief, guitar tech, Butch Vig [Tape Op #11] and Garbage's utility wizard,...
Ishmael Butler & Erik Blood: the Ultra-Future Hip-Hop of Shabazz Palaces
by Geoff Stanfield
Since 2009, the partnership between Ishmael Butler and his post-Digable Planets outfit, Shabazz Palaces, and producer/engineer/artist Erik Blood, has yielded some of the most interesting and...
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, LL Cool J: Selected Stories from David Bianco's Lifetime of Record-Making
by Geoff Stanfield
What do Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, LL Cool J, Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, U2, Mick Jagger, AC/DC, The Damned, The Posies, and Rage Against the Machine all have in common? They all...