Band Weblogs

With the music compilation ‘Pachyderm…So LARGE…We Ran Out Of Room’, Pachyderm Recording Studio celebrates its first year under new ownership of Matthew M. Mueller of Madison WI who also owns The Cardinal Bar in Madison …

C-Sharp Productions, an independent music production company in Minnesota, has announced a new discount program to kick off 2008. The company is cutting its recording and production rates in half for the first half of the new year …

Sheryl Crow never ceases to amaze me. I was just listening to MVY Radio online out of Martha’s Vineyard, and her latest single, “Shine Over Babylon” came on. The song is from her album ‘Detours’, which doesn’t come out until February 2008 …

Adam Holzman (Director of Miles Davis’ band), Pat Thrall, (Guitarist: Hughes and Thrall, Meatloaf, Asia) Steve Lillywhite (Simple Minds, U2, Talking Heads), Nir Z (Drummer: Genesis, Chris Cornell, Joss Stone, John Mayer)

As part of its 30 Year Anniversary celebrations, New York’s Avatar Studios - originally launched as The Power Station in 1977 - threw open its hallowed doors on Friday October 5th, 2007 and celebrated three decades of hit-making with literally hundreds of some of the best known music producers in the world [...]

The concept for Live From Abbey Road is very simple, nonetheless, it revolutionises the way in which music television is viewed. The focus is to capture great, live, musical performances and to place musicians [...]

King Creosote recently played at the Carling Academy in Oxford and I was fortunate enough to have been there. The band put on a great show - one not to be missed if you get the chance. Read the interview! [...]

… Jeff Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert and Columbia Records have together released ‘So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley’. The release comes at the 10th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s tragic death at the age of 30 in Memphis, Tennessee on May 29th, 1997. When listening to the CD, it’s hard to believe that he had only made one full album to his “exacting standards” – which was his 1994 studio debut ‘Grace’ …

Previously noted on Band Weblogs, a release date was announced for Tim Young Band’s, ‘The Cost’ as summer 2007. However, production, as it sometimes does, has it’s own ideas about time. The latest news pushes the release date to early autumn 2007.
Slow but steady progress is the status quo. Anyway the now anticipated delays have [...]

This summer of 2007 will see the release of the third CD by New York City rocker Tim Young. The Cost will feature twelve new songs from Tim and a new cover of his own tune “Renegade” from the 2005 release of his solo artist debut Red.
This time around involves a more complex production. Basic [...]

Grayson Manor will begin recording their new album on May 7th at Sound Instinct Studios in North Hollywood, CA with producer Mike Clink (Guns N’ Roses, Metallica).
After a year of writing and pre-production, the band is ready to deliver songs that are their strongest to date. Lead singer Brad Cox has teamed up with amazing [...]

If you’re a Radiohead fan, you might want to check out Radiohead’s blog Dead Air Space.
Thom York and the boys keep their blog updated fairly frequently with interesting links to other websites, extremely random thoughts and recently there have been posts and photos of them recording in the studio.
Check out Dead Air Space.
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/
- Jenny May

The Killers have recorded their version of Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet” at Abbey Road Studios, which was just aired on Channel 4 in the UK. I heard it on the radio and was a bit surprised because at one point rumor had been going around that Razorlight was going to cover the song, which [...]

Indie Rock-Metal band Krescent 4 have announced plans to record their first full-length album at the legendary Document Room overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California. K4 manager Kris Keller recently made the announcement of the career-changing move.
The Document Room boasts an impressive client list. Gwen Stefani, Rick Rubin, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers are [...]

Gigi MacKenzie, daughter of famous television and recording artist Gisele MacKenzie, releases debut CD on Morpheus Music label after tragic fire.
“This CD literally came up from the ashes of disaster,” said Gigi MacKenzie. After having recorded the entire CD, Gigi received a call one night that the studio, which contained all of the masters [...]