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Producer Crosstalk: Pete Doell
Mastering engineer Pete Doell (pronounced “Dell”) earned a degree in electronic music composition from the State University of New York at Albany before returning home to Boston, where he banged ... -
Artist Profile: Wolfgang Van Halen — Mammoth Delivering on A Legacy
Wolfgang Van Halen launched his career around the age of 16 when he was tapped (no pun intended but acknowledged) by his father Edward to become the bassist in the ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Karrie Keyes
The night that 16-year-old L.A. native Karrie Keyes attended a Black Flag show, she hadn’t the faintest idea that it would change her life. She snatched a post-show seat on ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Ian Charbonneau
Live recording engineer Ian Charbonneau began to learn the craft from his father Guy Charbonneau when he was only 14. It wasn’t long until he started to cut class to ... -
Artist Profile: Juliana Hatfield: From Spinning Bottles to Scratching Lottery Tickets
Kickin’ it indie-style since the mid-‘80s, singer-songwriter and all-around artist Juliana Hatfield formed her first band Blake Babies while attending the Berklee College of Music. The trio released four albums ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Dominique Sanders
Musician, songwriter, and producer Dominique Sanders got his start in Kansas City as a child interested in the cello. He soon graduated to upright bass, later studied music for two ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Tiff Randol
Musician, producer, and composer Tiff Randol embarked on her formal career path at NYU where she studied classical voice performance. But she soon found that she had a talent for ... -
Stocking Stuffers 2025
One of the best things about Christmas is conceiving cool and clever ideas for stocking stuffers to bless, impress, and outguess your musician friends, partners, lovers, etc. The next best ... -
Artist Profile: Brian Kennedy
Musician, songwriter, and producer Brian Kennedy got his start in the trade when he began to teach himself piano at the prodigious age of four. He swapped his hometown of ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Khris Riddick-Tynes
For L.A.-born GRAMMY-winning musician, songwriter, and producer Khris Riddick-Tynes, crafting tunes is virtually a family business. His father—who was in a band with Randy Jackson of the Jackson dynasty—and grandmother ...














