This weekend Baltimore will host the 2nd annual Megapolis Audio Festival, a celebration of DIY audio. The inagural fest was in Boston last year, and is finding a home this year in Charm City. The amount of awesomeness happening this weekend is incredible. The “schemedule” is on their website includes a lot of details about [...]
Local Baltimore band No Second Troy just released their newest album Colors last Tuesday (4/27) and are having a CD releaseparty at the Black Cat in D.C. with The Reserves and Soft Complex. They recently stopped by WTMD for an interview and to record a few tracks for last week’s episode of Baltimore Unsigned and [...]
Mania Music Group, a local hip-hop label that recently was named by City Paper as the Best Label in their Best of Baltimore 2009, is gearing up for its release of their new album Welcome to the Audience. The album will feature the label’s four rappers Kane Mayfield, Dappa Dan Midas, Rapman Ron G and [...]
Charm City music scene sweetheart and crazy avant-garde dance party composer recently announced he will release two full length albums as well as an EP in the near future. One of the more interesting points that Deacon made in the e-mailed statement to music blog Pitchfork is that he is transitioning to using the studio [...]
With recording becoming more accessible these days, many aspiring musicians are taking the process into their own hands. With so much indie music flooding the scene, it is becoming even harder for artists to be recognized in the industry to turn their passion for music into a paycheck. In Baltimore, the now 28-year-old rapper Bossman [...]
The up and coming indie duo Beach House recently visited Baltimore, where half of the group has it’s roots. Victoria Legrand who is originally from France, moved to Baltimore in 2004 and collaborated with Baltimore native Alex Scally to form the group. Their first album was recorded in Scally’s basement in a home studio in [...]
Every producer has their favorite mics and their constantly growing and changing wishlist. “I love pairing the SM-57 with a Sennheiser MD-421. I pair them on all sorts of stuff and it just sounds great.” Evan Kornblum says he uses this “classic combination” on drums, guitar cabs, and with several different applications. If he could [...]
It’s not often I hear of a band coming out to Baltimore from somewhere like Kansas to record an album. Don’t get me wrong, I understand there may not be many recording studios in Lawrence; but it is still quite a journey. In an article from a Kansas City news and entertainment site, the guitarist the group [...]
So, I work for the Department of Music at Towson doing recordings for their student and faculty recitals, and on certain occasions recordings in the RSTUDM (The Recording Studio of the Towson University Department of Music). Recently, I was scheduled to do a session with Towson faculty member and Trumpeter/Composer Dave Ballou and a Towson alumnus, Ellery [...]
I first heard about Mobtown Studios on a piece that WYPR’s The Signal did on the owners and the studio, back in October of last year. One thing that makes them unique and noticeable among the many recording studios in the area is their website, which includes a blog. They put on monthly “microshows” where [...]
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