Band In Boston

Ok, so we finally took a break yesterday. To make up for it, here are two today. Starting off with Detroit’s Child Bite, AKA Sean from Rescue. Woooo! Song List: Banana Gorgin Jules Rules Muscle Chalet Do the Physical

It’s hard to pin down exactly where these guys are from. As best we can figure, it went like this: Boston, New York, Australia, back to Boston, and finally back to New York again. In their travels, they’ve worked out quite a few damn catchy glam-pop numbers. Song List: City Boy Hit & Miss The […]

Merry Christmas everyone. Our gift to you: Elizabeth and the Catapult. A little bit of Aimee Mann, a bit of Eleni Mandell, and a funky backing band all come together in a very festive manner. Song List: Taller Children Race You Back Home Waiting for the Kill So Serious Apathy Just In Time The Wishing […]

Another one from the vault for you kids. St. Helena’s new album comes out mighty soon. Here they are just around when their first album came out! Song list: Peppered Asaulted and Blue Lucy’s Hands Happy Oh Jane Number 13 and Counting Here Lay Me Down Henderson the Rain King

When you think of a power trio, the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t saxophone. Bottle Up and Go are ready to change that. Guitar, drums, and sax come together to lay down some kickass rock and roll. They stopped by the same day as Abigail Warchild, and our advice remains the same […]

This is just some full-on, high energy rock and roll as god intended. Our recommendation: steal a car, turn on this session at full volume, drive as fast as possible until you run out of gas, set the car on fire, then ride a lion/dragon hybrid into the land of Hades.* I think you get […]

Here’s another one in the “how did it take us so damn long to get this out?” category. And, like most of them, the answer is “I sucked too much at mixing to do it justice.” Hopefully that is no longer the case. Song List: Manhattan Nectar Day 7 (by Notwist) The Innovator Into the […]

I have no idea how to describe Paper Thin Stages. Let’s try… Improvised, experimental, atmospheric, and trippy as hell. I totally found myself drifting off into lala land a few times as they played. Not recommended while driving or operating heavy equipment. Perfect for a snowed-in weekend. Song List: Love Barge The Reverend Blues Band […]

Here’s a great band from San Francisco. They will normally implode your eardrums in a flurry of volume and musical talent. In our living room, they showed just how big of a soul lies at the root of their songs. Song List: Run Everywhere The Shores are Hardly Safe Mexican Disco Fun Crusher Shoot the […]

Hands down the largest band we’ve had in the living room, Earth People Orchestra consists of approximately 12 people (exactly 12 on this particular day), playing drums, buckets, slide guitar, glockenspiel, mandolin, digiridoo… well, just about anything they can find. I wasn’t entirely sure how to mic this one, but we lucked out and caught […]

No one’s going to accuse Pretty and Nice of being long-winded. Here they fit 6 songs into 12 and a half minutes. And no one’s going to accuse them of being quiet either. They singlehandedly inspired me to build the drum baffle system we now have, as well as implementing the “no vocal monitors” rule. […]

Them Janovitz boys are a talented bunch. We’ve had his brother Tom in a few times, now Paul stops by with Mike Leavey on electric guitar. Let’s listen. Song List: My Shoes Falling Freedom Fighter So Lonesome (by Hank Williams) Get Off the Rope Wrong Road Why Do I Swirl? There’s a Fight (by Christie […]

Mix a bit of the Apples in Stereo, a dash of Elvis Costello, maybe a little Kinks for good measure, and you’ve got yourself the Emeen Z band. Emeen and company came in in the midst of our last residency. Being a tough crew to wrangle into one place, it’s a real treat to have […]

Ghosty’s from Kansas. They make… indie-lounge-rock? I have no idea. All I know is we LOVE it. Song List: World’s Strongest Man (by Scott Walker) Rose Colored Glass Draining a Pool for You (by The Go-Betweens) Make it Easier Let Me In I Won’t Be Stopped

We have been holding on to this one forEVER. I felt like I never could do it justice, mix-wise…  At this point, I am not totally ashamed to put it out, but it doesn’t do them credit. Mako has long since changed their name to The Red Royal, but this is an interesting look into […]

In one of those “small world” moments, Clif from In Endeavors came in with Dickie Haydon the same day that we booked the rest of the band. Which wouldn’t be so strange if they weren’t from Kentucky. It’s good to see that they’ve got a lot of great music down there. Song List: So Much […]

From Santa Monica, Hello Echo has some familial and musical relations here in Boston. Self Righteous Brothers? Apollo Sunshine? Baker? We’re starting to think they’re all a one big family/cult. Here’s what they sounded like when they stopped by in September.

God we love this session. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve mixed, remixed, restarted, and mastered this one. Every time I read about some new mixing technique, I find myself trying it out on The Press. I’ve completely ruined it a few times, but I think I’ve dialed back the insanity and ended […]

Dickie is from Kentucky originally, but lives in Ontario. He’s in Petticoat, Petticoat, The Scourge of the Sea, and The Vicious Guns. Yet he finds time to tour solo. I have no idea how. He stopped in with fellow Kentuckian Clif Meyers (from In Endeavors – stay tuned for their session!) and made pretty noise. […]

Low Red Land is from San Francisco, but a San Francisco from about a hundred years ago. Their songs take you on a journey through the sprawling west of gunfighters, tumbleweeds, and fields of grain. Or at least that’s where I found myself. Song List: Wovoka Weight of Nations Hogstyle Gunfighter’s Afternoon/The Duke