Producing, engineering, mixing, remixing, playing keyboards, programming you name it, Carmen Rizzo does it. What's more, the genres that the multitalented...
If you want an indicator of Bill Bottrell's skills as a producer, start by looking at the list of heavyweight artists he's produced: Rosanne Cash, Sheryl...
At the core of the band WhiteRoom is the duo of Alex Dray and Eddy Silva, who started playing together during high school in Montreal, Canada. The pair...
The sounds that you hear in movies, TV, and video games fit so seamlessly with the visuals that it's easy to forget just how much work goes into producing...
This is the second of two columns featuring music attorney Bev Green, a veteran entertainment lawyer in the San Francisco area who practices at the firm...
This is drinking music, says John Bigham, front man for the Soul of John Black. I wanted to make down-home-blues party music, he says of the band's latest...
Electronic Musician's interview with Michael Petricone, VP of the Consumer Electronics Association, who tells why he thinks the major record labels are stifling technologies that could help independent musicians....
Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Monsieur Leroc, who's latest CD, I'm Not Young But I Need the Money, was put together without a lot of gear, but with a lot of creativity....
Former Talking Head member Jerry Harrison has established himself as a successful producer. Electronic Musician talks to him about his production philosophy, gear choices and his advice for personal-studio owners....
As I pulled up to the ramshackle house in the Atlanta suburbs, I was sure that I had the wrong address. This couldn't be where producer, keyboardist,...
Predicting the future is never easy, but trying to anticipate what it will bring can help a lot as long as you really know the subject that you're speculating...
After years of touring and making several indie CDs, singer-songwriter Ari Hest's career was on the rise. He signed with Columbia Records and cut a CD's...
In the music-for-picture world, composers get most of the glory. But there's another group of professionals who have a big impact on which music gets...
Lynda Kay Parker and Danny B. Harvey are the component parts of the quirky country duo Lonesome Spurs. Though both are native Texans, they're based in...
If you think that most contemporary records are constructed in the box by young musicians endlessly peering at screens and applying multitudes of plug-in...
For Venus Hum's third full-length release, The Colors in the Wheel (Nettwerk/Mono-Fi, 2006), the electronic-pop trio eschewed synthesizers in favor of...
Should Jean-Pierre Smadja known as Smadj ever find himself marooned on a desert island, he wouldn't be in any rush to drop a message in a bottle or make...
So goes a hook-laden lyric from Psycho-Delic-Ghetto-Vibe (Artform Entertainment, 2006), the new release from SonnyBoy. Anyone who records as a one-man...
Sound Team is an Austin, Texas based six-piece band that melds indie rock and postpunk with German synth music and '80s pop. The group takes an exploratory...
Considering the ever-increasing fusion of music and technology, you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that an artist recently released an album containing...
Beth Thornley is an artist on the rise. Her smart and hooky lyrics, inventive compositions, and pop productions have been compared to artists such as...
If you spend any time chatting with producer-engineer John Paterno, you can't help but notice his over-the-top passion for music and making records. Everything...
It's always tempting to get scientific about reproducing the sound of old records you love. Replicate the instruments, mic placement, and signal path...
Renaissance Man
Pushing the Right Buttons
Montreal Pop
It's Only Make-Believe
Q&A: Bev Green
Truly Gritty
Q&A: Michael Petricone
Sonic Sculptor
From Talking Heads to Production Whiz
Beat Crazy in Atlanta
Q&A: Michael Laskow
Hest Makes Best
Q&A: Jack Rudy
Texas in a Suitcase
Old-School Contemporary
Venus Hum Goes Organic
Track It and Drive
Groove Thyself
Exploring at Big Orange
Yours, Mine, and Ours
Pop Solid
The Exuberant Engineer
Tape Head
