LaPorta Mastering Neon Indian, Beach House, Matt and Kim & More At The Lodge

In addition to working with The Lodge founder and Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar on recent projects such as Armin van Buuren‘s upcoming album, Mirage, mastering engineer Joe LaPorta has been rapidly expanding his solo discography with several significant new indie releases. Hot on the heels of Bear In Heaven‘s Beast Rest Forth Mouth and Dum Dum Girls‘ I Will Be, LaPorta has [...]

Twin Shadow’s “Forget” Mixed at Germano, Mastered At The Lodge

Brooklyn’s Twin Shadow, the synth-pop project of one George Lewis Jr., will be releasing his debut album, Forget on September 28 via Brooklyn-based Terrible Records. Forget was produced and mixed by Grizzly Bear bassist/engineer Chris Taylor (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Dirty Projectors, The Morning Benders), also co-founder of Terrible Records. Taylor and engineer Jake Aron (Yeasayer, [...]

Magic Kids’ Memphis Mixed by Stoneback, Mastered At The Lodge

The hotly anticipated debut album from Memphis natives Magic Kids (due out August 24 on True Panther) aptly titled, Memphis, was mastered recently at The Lodge. The Lodge Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta helped put the final touches on the band’s first LP. Magic Kids’ Memphis was recorded and mixed [...]

Chromeo Turn Out The Lights At The Lodge

Montreal’s electro-funk duo Chromeo released their latest single ”Don’t Turn The Lights On” (Vice Records/Atlantic) on June 29, 2010. The track was mastered in NYC at The Lodge, by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta. As we previously reported, Chromeo had been writing/recording at MetroSonic Studios in Williamsburg in the Spring. Composed of two long-time friends David “Dave 1″ Macklovitch [...]

We Are Scientists: Birthing “Barbara” At Mission Sound & Beyond

Working with producer/engineer Ariel Rechtshaid, We Are Scientists hopped from NYC to LA to London to bring “Barbara” into the world, in all her glory.

The Lodge Masters “Get Him to the Greek” Soundtrack

Summer buddy blockbuster Get Him To The Greek opened June 4 and the soundtrack to this raucous, rock-and-roll farce — featuring music/lyrics from Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), actors Jason Segel and Russell Brand, and Carl Barât (The Libertines) — was mastered at The Lodge in NYC by chief mastering engineer Emily Lazar and mastering engineer Joe [...]

Sleighs Bells Brings “Treats” To The Lodge

One of the buzziest buzz bands of the day, Brooklyn electro-rock duo Sleigh Bells released their debut album Treats (N.E.E.T./ Mom+Pop) on iTunes yesterday. The album was mastered at The Lodge, by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta. Signed to M.I.A’s record label, N.E.E.T., Sleigh Bells makes super-catchy, raucous, noise-pop, marrying producer Derek Miller’s blaring guitars and [...]

The Lodge Masters Ravi Shankar Album

The new record by legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, Nine Decades: Volume 1 (1967 – 1968), features a never-before-released performance and is the first record out on the artist’s new label East Meets West Records. Joe LaPorta mastered the recording at The Lodge in NYC. Nine Decades marks another album added to Shankar’s sixty-year long career. At ninety years of [...]

Dum Dum Girls’ “I Will Be” Mastered at The Lodge

Dum Dum Girls, an all-girl pop band from Los Angeles, recently mastered their Sub Pop debut album,  I Will Be, at NYC’s The Lodge, with mastering engineer Joe LaPorta. The band consists of front woman/founder Dee Dee, guitarist/vocalist Jules, bassist Bambi, and drummer/vocalist Frankie Rose (previously of Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts). Resonating with sounds of 1960’s girl [...]

Minus the Bear Master Omni at The Lodge

Indie-rock outfit Minus The Bear mastered their forthcoming album Omni at NYC mastering facility The Lodge (Vampire Weekend, BT, Brand New). The album, which will be released May 4 on Dangerbird Records (Silversun Pickups, Hot Hot Heat, Eric Avery) was mastered by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta. Omni is Minus [...]

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