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Twin Peaks’ Colin Croom on the Merits of Having a Studio Game Plan

The multi-instrumentalist explains how the band recorded and mixed Lookout Low in only three weeks.

October 29, 2019

Not All Who Wander Aren’t Lost

David Huckfelt (The Pines) on solitude, wildnerness, and his time as Artist-In-Residence at the remote Isle Royale National Park.

February 7, 2019

The Spectacle and Sensation of Shania Twain

Robbie Fulks delves into how Shania’s impeccable pop-country sound came to be.

February 4, 2019

Andrew Falkous Presents: Falkous Vs. 10K

“I had given everything to it, to this, and now, well, now I was making a call which started with the words ‘We don’t have an album.’”

November 28, 2018

Listen, Listen: Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) on Sounds as Silence

The author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World wonders about finding quiet in a world of back-up alarms.

April 24, 2017

Adam Schatz (Landlady) Talks Micachu and the Shapes’ Good Sad Happy Bad

When it comes to music, do we really want to know how the metaphorical sausage gets made?

October 5, 2015

Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) Talks Malcolm Goldstein’s Full Circle Sounding

How the new album by a 73-year-old extended-technique avant-garde violinist inspired a creative breakthrough for a twentysomething rock guitarist.

September 2, 2015

Matt LeMay (Get Him Eat Him) Talks “Forensic Listening” and the Dilemma of “Correct” Sound

A couple of months ago I got an email from a friend who, like I do, spends a good deal of his time recording and mixing music. The e-mail read...

October 26, 2013

Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, Blackout Beach) Talks Josephine Foster’s Blood Rushing

‪Josephine Foster's Blood Rushing was recorded in the Colorado mountains, high up in the gold-green air — recorded as a band playing together...

May 16, 2013