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Listen to a new Swans song mixed by Kevin McMahon

dbackhaus — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:47:20 +0000

Stereogum has the premier of the new Swans song called “Eden Prison” this morning. Our Kevin McMahon mixed it and you can check it out by clicking on the photo below.

Chris Coady is producing the new Smith Westerns album

dbackhaus — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:34:12 +0000

Chris Coady has spend the past few weeks recording a Smith Westerns album for Fat Possum and we hear it’s going great. If you are in NYC come to Bowery Ballroom next Tuesday to see them open for Wavves.

Geoff Sanoff + Nathan Larson (Shudder to Think) + Tom Verlaine (Television) work on James Iha solo album

dbackhaus — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:25:38 +0000

Geoff Sanoff was engineering the upcoming James Iha album Wednesday with Nathan Larson formerly of Shudder to Think producing. Tom Verlaine stopped by to lay down some guitars and James Iha took the photo below to document the moment.

Chris Coady mixed Lower Dens album gets 8.1 from Pitchfork!

dbackhaus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:59:33 +0000

Great review from Pitchfork this morning, including these nice words about Chris’ work: “… there is a placid, warm quality to nearly every track, no matter what the guitars are up to. (For this, credit is due to producer Chris Coady, who also mixed Beach House’s Teen Dream; Coady turns busy bunches of layers into an elegant bouquet.)” Click the photo below for the full review.

James Brown + Flood + The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

dbackhaus — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:48:21 +0000

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart on their last day at Stratosphere Sound, with engineer James Brown (apparently the session took a lot out of him), producer Flood and assistant engineer Adam Tilzer:

Chris Coady & Cult of Youth

dbackhaus — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:27:17 +0000

Chris Coady recently produced & mixed the upcoming Cult of Youth album for Sacred Bones Records. Here is a photo of Chris and the band looking very happy at the Magic Shop here in New York City.

Chris Coady just produced & mixed a Zola Jesus song

dbackhaus — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:15:08 +0000

We are all pretty excited about this one! Our Chris Coady spent the weekend producing & mixing the new Zola Jesus song “Poor Animal” in Brooklyn. It features guest violins by Christiana Key from Cult of Youth and will be on the upcoming “Valusia” EP out October 12th on Sacred Bones. Don’t miss Zola Jesus on tour with The xx. Nika & Chris & a bottle of Poland Spring:

Listen to a track from the new Chris Coady mixed Abe Vigoda album

dbackhaus — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:59:12 +0000

Chris mixed this album earlier this year. Head over to Pitchfork to check out a track.

James Brown & Flood in the studio with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

dbackhaus — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:44:00 +0000

Fresh off producing & mixing the “Say No to Love” single, our James Brown is teaming up with legendary producer Flood to record the new Pains of Being Pure at Heart album here in NYC. Judging by the album demos James recorded with the band in May, it’s going to be a fantastic album.

Here is a totally unrelated photo I took of the first Pains 7″ I found while record shopping in Tokyo in March 2008:

Kyle “Slick” Johnson recorded and mixed Wavves album gets an 8.4 & Best New Music from Pitchfork.

dbackhaus — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:57:29 +0000

Kyle “Slick” Johnson recorded and mixed the album with Dennis Herring and it’s no surprise that Pitchfork loves it. It’s a pretty great record, altho I’m pretty sure Debbi is sick of me playing “King of the Beach” over and over and over….

Click below for the full review.