Steph Marziano has produced Sir Chloe’s Swallow the Knife, Jasmine 4t’s You Are The Morning, Vundabar’s Surgery and Pleasure, and Jenny on Holiday’s Quicksand Heart. Additionally, in her early days, she assistant engineered on albums for big names such as The Prodigy, Sam Smith, and Radiohead. Now, she continues to produce and co-write on a wide range of projects, including Hayley Williams’s Grammy-nominated song “Parachute” from the acclaimed 2025...
Interviews
Kenneth Blume III, FKA Kenny Beats
By John Baccigaluppi
After posting my year-end 2025 favorite albums on <tapeop.com>, I ended up emailing with Kenny Blume who produced one of my favorites, Geese's Getting Killed. He mentioned that he had finished building a new studio, Putnam Hill, with both a digital and analog tape workflow, as well as two custom consoles, and he invited me to visit the next time I was in Los Angeles. Formerly known as Kenny Beats, whether you call him Kenneth or Kenny, please use his last name, Blume. He's currently 34 years old and has been making music since he was in high school. In this time, he’s already worked with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, and ScHoolboy Q before he even graduated from college, later working with the aforementioned Geese and IDLES. I met up with Kenny at Putnam Hill after he'd finished up tracking vocals for a new Weezer song (“Shine Again”) he was producing, and we sat down for a chat for Tape Op.
