WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: We veteran New Yorkers know better than to put too much stock in the fantasies of eager new-arrivals. You know the type: They come to us from small towns, accustomed to finding a monthly room to rent for little more than the sum of our daily coffees Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Last Fall, SonicScoop and Vintage King held a contest to pair up NYC-based singer/songwriter/filmmaker Jordan Galland with a local studio and producer to record some new material. Looking for the right engineer and room in which to track drums, vocals and piano, Galland chose Alex Lipsen, producer, Read more...
This week, we visited Rare Book Room Studios in Greenpoint to spend an afternoon with producer Nicolas Vernhes and Norwegian-born songwriter Sondre Lerche.
Vernhes, who’s explored distinctive and sometimes jarring sounds with Dirty Projectors, Black Dice, and Deerhunter, might seem like an unexpected choice for Lerche, an artist best known Read more...
Second in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to read Parts I and II.
Today is the five-month anniversary of my purchasing the building and official work still hasn’t begun. I’m expecting approval of my plans some time in the next Read more...
Second in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to read Part I.
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Since I opened the first Strange Weather, I’ve considered myself an amateur acoustical designer. I’ve always had to look at the space available to me and figure Read more...
