Sera Cahoone with Margo Cilker & John Morgan Askew

Interviews  |  No. 48

Dennis Herring: From Timbuk 3 to Modest Mouse

by Tim Lee

Interviews  |  No. 135

Greg Kurstin: Music is My Happy Place

by John Baccigaluppi

Greg Kurstin is an in demand producer who's worked with a laundry list of great artists, including Lily Allen, Sia, Pink, The Shins, Foo Fighters, Liam Gallagher, Beck, The Flaming Lips, Tegan and...

Interviews  |  No. 157

Donn Landee: Keeping an Open Mind

by Greg Renoff

Donn Landee’s lengthy discography is a testament to his versatility and skill as an engineer. Landee worked for T.T.G. Studios and Sunwest Recording Studios in Hollywood before he became a...

Interviews  |  No. 129

SoundBetter

by Larry Crane

SoundBetter Founders Shachar Gilad (Left) and Itamar Yunger (Right). In 2013 I met up with Shachar Gilad, the founder of SoundBetter, to talk about the new business he'd started, connecting people...

Artist/Recordists  |  No. 35

Jason Falkner: Home studio wizard & songwriter

by Larry Crane, Andy Hong

He's been a member of The Three O'Clock, Jellyfish and The Grays. His voice and instrumentation appear on albums by Beck, Susanna Hoffs, Eric Matthews, Aimee Mann, and Air. He co-wrote, produced,...

Behind the Gear  |  No. 78

David Bock : Behind the Gear with Bock Audio Designs

by Larry Crane

David Bock has fostered (and weathered) the changes in the microphone marketplace over the last 14 years, first as cofounder and main designer for Soundelux Microphones and now with his own Bock Audio...

Interviews  |  No. 47

Mark Rubel: Zengineer to Adrian Belew, Hum, and more!

by Jeff Elbel

Twelve years later, I recall Mark Rubel's directions to Pogo Studio from our very first conversation. Passing through that red door at 35 East Taylor was more magical than walking into Disneyland...

Interviews  |  No. 114

Kevin McMahon: Appropriate Responses

by Zac Meyer

The Middle Hudson Valley of New York State has long been a bastion of creativity, counterculture, the arts, and especially music. While Woodstock is the hippie hamlet famous for lending its name to...

Interviews  |  No. 111

Chris Walla: Making Tape Loops

by Larry Crane

Way the heck back, in issue #19 ofTape Op, we interviewed Chris Walla, then an integral part of the up-and-coming Death Cab For Cutie. Now Chris is off on his own, and his first music expedition (and...