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In Session: What Are We Going to Do? 

By Nathaniel Kunkel

It's a new year, and with it come new music, new opportunities, and new uncertainties. Whether you make electronic music or record only acoustic instruments,...

Metalocalypse Now 

By Gino Robair

As the band kicks into overdrive and the guitarists do hair windmills, hot coffee and cream spill out over the audience, injuring even more fans. It's...

Metalocalypse Now (Bonus) 

By Gino Robair

Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small creates all of the music of the fictional band Dethklok in his home studio. In this interview, he talks about scoring the show. ...

Music Business Insider: Q&A: Tim Westergren 

By Mike Levine

If you haven't yet been to Pandora.com, get ready to be impressed....

Pro/File: Cut, Paste, and Process 

By Bill Murphy

There's something beautifully off-kilter about the music of David P. Madson, aka Odd Nosdam. ...

Pro/File: Modular Odyssey 

By Bill Murphy

In this era of digitally manipulated sound, pure electronic music that is, music based totally on analog synthesis could be considered a lost art. But...

Music Business Insider: Q&A: Jeff Price 

By Mike Levine

The Web offers independent musicians the ability to self-distribute, allowing them to bypass record labels, distributors, and other gatekeepers...

Without Missing A Beat 

By Mike Levine

As one of the world's elite drummers, Omar Hakim has worked with everyone from Sting to Michael Jackson to Weather Report to Miles Davis....

Thomas Dolby Goes Remote 

Mike Levine

Among the musicians involved with online collaboration is synth-pop and music-technology icon Thomas Dolby. This fall Dolby is touring the U.S. and U.K.,...

Music Without Borders 

By Debbie Galante Block

The music on Balkan Beat Box's (BBB) latest CD, Nu Med (JDub, 2007), is an original blend of Middle Eastern folk influences and electronica. The band...

PRO/FILE: Without Shoes 

By Debbie Galante Block

When Jeff Murphy describes his new solo album, Cantilever (Black Vinyl, 2007), he says it's all about the music and about being human. Murphy, who has...

Renaissance Man 

By Mike Levine

Producing, engineering, mixing, remixing, playing keyboards, programming you name it, Carmen Rizzo does it. What's more, the genres that the multitalented...

With Special Guests 

By Mike Levine

Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Strange Angel, whose debut CD features a roster of guest stars, who are friends with the band's guitarist, Bryan Bell, a former studio tech....

Montreal Pop 

By Diane Gershuny

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...

Pushing the Right Buttons 

By Paul Tingen

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...

Q&A: Bev Green 

By Mike Levine

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...

It's Only Make-Believe 

By Mike Levine

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...

Tracking in Soulville 

By Diane Gershuny

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...

Q&A: Bev Green 

By Mike Levine

Sooner or later in your musical career, you'll need to sign a contract or make an agreement....

Truly Gritty 

By Heather Johnson

Kevin and Anita Robinson, who constitute the Portland, Oregon-based guitar-drum duo Viva Voce, like to keep their fans guessing. ...

Q&A: Michael Petricone 

By Mike Levine

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....

Sonic Sculptor 

By Diane Gershuny

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....

From Talking Heads to Production Whiz 

By Paul Tingen

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....

Beat Crazy in Atlanta 

By Mike Levine

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,...

Q&A: Michael Laskow 

By Mike Levine

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...