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Featured Artists – Stompboxes

Snowmine and the recording process

Snowmine's Gear: Fender Mini Tone-Master " I use a Fender Mini Tone-Master. It’s a small solid state practice amp, and I put literally everything through it. " Like many contemporary Brooklyn based artists, Snowmine (featured on the cover of the summer 2012 issue of our sister site/publication The Deli) is…Click on the title for more

Snowmine and the recording process

Lucius and the Recording Process

Lucius' Gear: Korg Microsampler ” Jess’ mini keyboard is actually a sampler, the Korg Microsampler. It plays samples from the record, she can play key bass on it, sometimes it has drum loops, new samples we have made… “ It's rare to see a band mature as fast as Lucius did. Started…Click on the title for more

Lucius and the Recording Process

Recording Artist Feature: Hooray for Earth

Part of the uniqueness of “True Loves” - Brooklyn's Hooray for Earth debut album - lies in a certain kind of heavieness that’s intertwined with its pop buoyancy. The drums are massive and brooding (and were recorded on a rooftop) and the keyboards are thick and lush with extensive layering…Click on the title for more

Recording Artist Feature: Hooray for Earth

Recording Artist Feature: Yellow Ostrich

What's in a name? Don't ask me. There's no such thing as a yellow ostrich, but that doesn't stop Alex Schaaf from insisting it's alive anyway. And in songs like 'Whale' and 'In The Past I Was an Astronaut', Yellow Ostrich is making the abstract discernible, and getting a lot…Click on the title for more

Recording Artist Feature: Yellow Ostrich

Octant and the “Unmanned Backup Band”

Octant can be described as a one-man band featuring mainly acoustic robotic musical instruments that back up front man, Matthew Steinke, like a player piano as he sings, shouts, and plays various home brew instrumentation. For the upcoming performance at The Tank (NYC), Octant will perform an initial set of…Click on the title for more

Octant and the “Unmanned Backup Band”