Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Crazy Horse, boygenius, The New Pornographers, William Tyler, Steve Gunn & David Moore, The Hold Steady, London Brew, Mighty Poplar, and Scott McMicken.
London Brew is out today on Concord Jazz, a new album inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew from a crème de la crème collection of UK jazz luminaries, available now on 2CD and digitally, with the 2LP release - available on black vinyl, limited edition opaque blue and indie-exclusive voodoo maroon vinyl - to follow on April 14.
Buy London Brew or listen in full here: https://found.ee/LondonBrew
Highland, New York, January 21, 2022 Global architectural acoustic consulting and design firm WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) announces that two recently completed projects – FAMA Studios and MAD OAK Studios – are finalists for the 2022 NAMM TEC Awards in the category of Outstanding Creative Achievement – Studio Design Projects. The NAMM TEC Awards is a yearly celebration of achievements in pro […]
Grammy-winning engineer and legendary audio equipment designer Rupert Neve has died at the age of 94. His legacy as one of the most important and influential studio and recording equipment designers cannot be overstated. Tributes have flooded in from the wider music industry including from Above & Beyond, El-P, engineer Alex Tumay, The 1975, Paul Epworth, Daddy Kev, Nigel Godrich, Abbey Road Studios and many more.
He designed the first-ever transistor-based EQ, followed by the first transistor-based console, installed in Phillips Studios in London in 1964. Up until that point, consoles were powered with vacuum tubes – or valves – rather than transistors. Neve’s design offered a new sound and stability. He was then commissioned by Wessex Sound Studio to create the first 24-channel console in London, which equipped his now-classic 1073 mic pre and EQ channel strips. Those 1073 strips are possibly Neve’s greatest legacy, still sought-after today in hardware form and modelle