This one came in over the holiday break, so I wasn’t able to post earlier, but it’s still worth mentioning. ”Wasting Light” by Foo Fighers, and engineered by our James Brown, came in in at #1 on the 2011 Rolling Stone Reader’s Poll! Congratulations guys!
I’m probably missing someone, but here is a (nearly) complete list of artists we’ve worked with in 2011. It’s been a great year!
| 1,2,3 |
| Aaron Neville |
| Autre Ne Veut |
| Ayktyon |
| Beach House |
| Bear Hands |
| Beck |
| Birdy |
| Bochan |
| Cass McCombs |
| Caveman |
| Chappo |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| Clarence Bucaro |
| Classixx |
| Converse Rubber Tracks Studio |
| Dirty Secrets |
| Disney/Rio Movie |
| Drew Anderotti |
| Elvis Perkins |
| Foo Fighters |
| Gauntlet Hair |
| Givers |
| Jane’s Addiction |
| Jemaine Clement |
| Jimmy Eat World |
| Jinwoon |
| Joe Cocker |
| John Ledgend |
| Led Er Est |
| Light Asylum |
| Matchbox Twenty |
| Mates of State |
| Nathan Larsen |
| North Highlands |
| Nothing |
| Palmyra Delran |
| Papercutz |
| Phillip Glass |
| Pitchfork.TV |
| Porcelain Raft |
| Robbers on High Street |
| Rubblebucket |
| Sam Sparrow |
| Santigold |
| Sarah Brightman |
| Scissor Sisters |
| So So Glos |
| Steel Phantoms |
| Steven Van Zandt |
| Tall Ships |
| The Black Atlantic |
| The Dandy Warhols |
| The Delta Spirit |
| The Gregory Brothers |
| The Muppets Movie |
| The Nowherenaughts |
| The Number Station |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| The School of Seven Bells |
| The Sheepdogs |
| Twin Shadow |
| Twin Sister |
| WATERS |
| Weekend |
| Wes Tucker and the Skillets |
| Widowspeak |
The year-end lists are starting to roll in and the Just Managing crew has placed quite a few albums on them! Congratulations to James Brown, Eric Broucek and Chris Coady for their work on albums by Foo Fighters, Smith Westerns, Eleanor Friedberger, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Arctic Monkeys, Cold Cave, Holy Ghost!, Mates of State and Gang Gang Dance. Click the list below to enlarge (I do not feel like dealing with formatting issues this morning!)
Congratulations to James & Chris for landing albums in Stereogum’s “Top 50 of 2011″ list. See the full list here.
6. Gang Gang Gang Dance “Eye Contact” [4AD] • Chris Coady Engineer
25. Cold Cave “Cherish The Light Years” [Matador] • Chris Coady Producer/Mix
26. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Belong” [Slumberland] • James Brown Engineer & co-prod on “Too Young”
37. Smith Westerns “Dye it Blonde” [Fat Possum] • Chris Coady Producer/Mix
That’s right, seven – including Album of the Year, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album. Congratulations James, Alan, Butch, Joe, Emily and everyone else involved. Here is a photo of James taken during the recording of “Wasting Light” with (L to R) Dave, Krist, James, Alan Moulder and Butch Vig. Click here for a full list of nominees.
For the past month or so, our James Brown has been in Los Angeles engineering the new Matchbox Twenty album with Matt Serletic producing. Here is a photo of James (with Matt in the background) I stole from the bands twitter.
James Brown has been having a great year – he engineered the Flood-produced The Pains of Being Pure at Heart album, engineered the Butch Vig-produced Foo Fighters LP “Wasting Light” and engineered Arctic Monkeys “Suck it and See” LP – which was just named Best Album by MOJO Magazine. Not sure exactly why they are doing this with half the year still left, but hey, we’ll take it. Congratulations to James, and check out the full list of winners here.
James Brown just got a fantastic birthday present! The new Arctic Monkeys LP he engineered, “Suck it and See”, debuted at #1 on the UK albums chart, knocking off Lady Gaga! They also broke another record in the process – click here to find out which.
Back in January, Yankees fan James Brown engineered the new Arctic Monkeys LP out in Los Angeles with James Ford producing. I haven’t heard the full album yet, but if the reviews listed over at the “Suck it and See” wikipedia page are to be believed, it’s a pretty darn good album. We can all find out tomorrow when it is released. Here is the band on the cover of the current issue of Q, where they name-check James Brown.
Digital Producer Magazine recently spoke to James and Butch about making the new Foo Fighters album… which is kind of funny since there was not a single bit or byte involved in the making of the thing. Click the screenshot below to read the story and see a fantastic photo of James, his hat, Butch and what looks like the Foo Fighters acting like a bunch of monkeys in the background. The actual Digital Producer Magazine website only loads 1 in 10 times…
