Producer, musician and analog fundamentalist Steve Albini (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac) and Kim Deal (The Pixies, The Breeders) have been busy constructing an all-analog concept of recording music: The All-Wave Recording Movement.

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I have a client coming in that requires recording to a grand piano. Since I don’t have the space for a grand piano, we run a MIDI keyboard into Logic Pro 8 and use one of theirs. Usually we do overdubs for piano right in the control room.

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Thanks to Dan Murphy for a sweet write-up of the studio in The Examiner this week. Don’t judge us by the bags under our eyes. We’ll blame it on the bad angle. Or the late nights mixing. Read it for yourself here: Mobtown provides happy medium for Baltimore-area musicians

25 recordings have been added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. It’s great Herbie Hancock is finally in there. Of course he was sort of in there when Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life was added, but he was only a side-man there.

01. The first trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925)

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Why does radio always jump two steps backwards at the drop of a dime.

Clear Channel destroyed radio in mid 90s after the deregulation of radio. Not to mention, they destroyed music, as I knew it. And I was in the belly of the beast. It took me a long time to recover from music on the radio. Luckily there is a great underground scene and it’s surging like no one’s business.

But seriously. Local radio should be local. Not national. Or nationally owned. Baltimore’s WTMD is a model. People should follow. And listen. Remember it’s about the music. Always.

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