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Nov 7, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
If Ian Brennan is not on your radar, he should be. He has been making music since he was five—well, seriously since he was 20, caring furiously about the world in which we live and giving voice to the disenfranchised masses. Mix was fortunate to speak with him on the phone from his home in Italy, where he resides with his wife, photographer/videographer Marilena Umuhoza Delli.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
Don’t miss out on Part 1!Campbell likes to record as live as possible, no click, though that wasn’t always the case early on with Tom Petty. “When the Heartbreakers started out, we were really young,” says Campbell, an original member. “We didn’t know much about overdubbing and editing, so we endeavored to play the songs live even right up to [Damn the] Torpedoes.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
Los Angeles, CA (October 16, 2024)—According to Martin Pradler, who tracked and mixed Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, the third album by Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs, the band comes by its name honestly. Some of the older equipment in former Heartbreaker guitarist Campbell’s studio, Hocus Pocus, like the 1970s-era Neve console, indeed has dirty knobs—which can sometimes render recording a mite challenging. “I’d come in in the morning and it would be, ‘This tom mic is dead,’” Pradler explains.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
Los Angeles, CA (October 16, 2024)—While Mike Campbell says that he feels his songwriting has grown, both musically and lyrically, and that with The Dirty Knobs‘ latest album he’s turned a corner by capturing his live vibe onto record, he freely admits that his biggest challenge remains having confidence in his voice.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Robyn Flans
I Am Rachel Platten is not just the name of the artist’s new album; it is her declaration of freedom, her proclamation of maturation, her edict of growth, the bullhorn to the world that she is back stronger, secure, and solid. Yes, the album title says all of that. As she did, sitting in her San Fernando Valley backyard studio for a long talk about songwriting and all the life changes since her last album, Waves, released in 2017, and again on a follow-up phone call.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
When Matt Wallace’s manager presented him with demos from a new band called Maroon 5 and then asked about his interest in coming on board, the producer immediately saw the makings of great songs and the potential to do something “really stunning.” With a little production help, he felt, these five musicians—Adam Levine (vocals, guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Ryan Dusick (drums), Mickey Madden (bass) and James Valentine (guitar)—could make a “classic record.” Songs About Jane, their...
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
When Frampton Comes Alive! was first released in January 1976, no one could have predicted it would become the virtuoso guitarist’s signature album, selling 8 million copies in the U.S. and countless more around the world. The live double-LP set spawned three top-15 hits on the Billboard chart—”Show Me the Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” and “Do You Feel Like We Do”—the last of which clocked in at well over 7 minutes.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
Los Angeles, CA (June 10, 2024)—Tom Petty came alive as I was seated right in the center of engineer Ryan Ulyate’s Dolby Atmos universe, listening to his immersive mix of “Free Fallin’.” Fortuitously, Ulyate lives close by, so I was able to hear Petty’s highest- and longest-charting single at the highest quality and fidelity. It was my first experience listening to Atmos in a real studio, and it moved me to tears.
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May 20, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
The making of Folklorkestra’s A Strange Day in June was all about heart—both musically and personally. And it was indeed a strange time in the life of multi-instrumentalist John Kruth. Two years ago, having disbanded his previous band, TriBeCaStan, after releasing five albums, musician friend Elliott Sharp asked how he was planning to now produce and perform his musical ideas. When Kruth replied that he honestly didn’t know, Sharp suggested that he apply for a grant.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Robyn Flans
Ellis Sorkin had never intended on becoming an audio engineer, but luckily his father, who wrote the insurance for A&M Studios, envisioned it. He had taken his 14-year-old son on a tour of the studios and witnessed the impression that an Andy Williams/Claudine Longet recording session made on his son. Unbeknownst to the teenager, his father placed him on the long waiting list for the studio’s apprenticeship program.
