Back on Memorial Day Geoff did a session with The Twilight Sad for the LimeWire Music Store. It’s now available. Click here to check it out.
June 2010
Geoff Sanoff engineered & mixed The Twilight Sad session out now
Posted by dbackhaus / Wednesday June 23 2010
Alternative Press gives “Say No To Love” a 4 out of 5
Alaternative Press sure does have some nice things to say about James Browns production and mix on the new Pains of Being Pure at Heart single!
“The title track of the two-song release is indeed tidier and punchier than the band’s fuzz-damaged, self-titled full-length. Despite the spring cleaning, though, the title track–as well as its B-side, “Lost Saint”–are just as simple and endearingly infectious as the scruffy old stuff. But where the band used to shamble, they now sparkle”
Click here for the full review.
Posted by dbackhaus / Tuesday June 22 2010
Kevin McMahon produced Linfinity album gets a 7.1 from Pitchfork
I generally focus on the number Pitchfork gives an album, because the actual writing is pretty hit-or-miss with me. We’ve all seen the reviews that don’t actually talk about the music on the album until the last half of the last paragraph. In this case however, both the rating and the review seem to be spot on. Click here to check it out.
Posted by dbackhaus / Tuesday June 22 2010
The new We Are Scientists album is out now
“Barbara” is in stores and online now. Chris Coady engineered a bit of it back in November at Mission Sound in Brooklyn. Head over to Insound to pick up a copy.
Posted by dbackhaus / Tuesday June 22 2010
Watch the “Say No to Love” video by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Our own James Brown recorded, produced and mixed this song. Click here to watch the video over at Stereogum.
Posted by dbackhaus / Monday June 21 2010
Wavves making “King of the Beach” at Sweet Tea
Check out this great little video about Wavves making “King of the Beach”. Kyle recorded and mixed this with Dennis Herring and it’s awwesome.
WAVVES @ SWEET TEA from Pete Ohs on Vimeo.
Posted by dbackhaus / Tuesday June 15 2010
Listen to a new Wavves song recorded & mixed by Kyle “Slick” Johnson
Kyle recorded and mixed the new Wavves record earlier this year with Mr. Dennis Herring producing. Click here to listen on Pitchfork or here to see what Stereogum had to say about the song.
Posted by dbackhaus / Wednesday June 9 2010
Kevin McMahon is recording the new Chrome Cranks album
Chrome Cranks are back together and kicking ass like they never went away. The band just wrapped up 12 songs in 3 days with Kevin McMahon at the helm. Click here to read a pretty in-depth (by Brooklyn Vegan standards) interview and review of their two NYC shows this past weekend.
Posted by dbackhaus / Friday June 4 2010
1,2,3 breaks in Fancy Time with Kyle “Slick” Johnson producing
Pittsburgh’s 1,2,3 is one of the coolest new bands I’ve heard in a while. I’ve been listening to demos for months but I still don’t know what to call them/how to categorize them, other than “awesome”. I’m guessing they’ve listened to “Parklife” and watched Wattstax a few times. I could be totally wrong about that though. The band were in Philadelphia early this week recording 2 songs with Kyle “Slick” Johnson at Fancy Time.
On their blog, 1,2,3 describes one of the songs this way:
“In Philly as we speak, about to record our next single with Kyle “Slick” Johnson (fresh off the new Wavves album). It’s a Motown meets Misfits murder ballad from the point of view of a guy who drowns a little girl in the Allegheny river. Pretty excited.”
Posted by dbackhaus / Thursday June 3 2010
James Brown is recording Jane’s Addiction in Los Angeles
For the past week our own James Brown has been engineering two new Jane’s Addiction songs with Rich Costey producing. Duff McKagan has replaced Eric Avery for this incarnation of Jane’s Addiction and if the photo below is any indication, he is pretty happy with the new job.
Posted by dbackhaus / Wednesday June 2 2010