Benjamin Ricci

The 5 Best Things to Spend Money On For Your Studio

[Ed. note -- This article was originally published at www.sonarworks.com – it has been re-published here with permission.] The subject of how best to spend your money to improve your productions will be different for everyone. Maybe you are a weekend warrior who wants...

Record Review: Emily Elbert

Emily Elbert Proof Boston, MA Produced by Stephen Weber and Emily Elbert // Engineered and mixed by Stephen Weber // Mastered by Jonathan Wyner Emily Elbert has been playing music since she was 15,...

Record Review: Demon’s Claws

Demon’s Claws The Defrosting Of Montreal, QC Too often nowadays, bands try to develop a sound that is as complex as their musical tastes, and usually end up falling short with their pseudo...

Record Review: Carnivores

Carnivores If I'm Ancient Atlanta, GA Recorded by Mike Wright at New Street Studio, and Cyrus Shahmir at Railroad Earth // Mixed by Cyrus Shahmir and Carnivores // Mastered by Travis Thatcher The...

Record Review: Brandi Emma

Brandi Emma Photographic Memory EP Los Angeles, CA Produced, recorded, mixed & engineered by Tom Livemore // Mastered by Thomas Schoebel If Brandi Emma’s 2006 debut Swim would fall under...

Record Review: The Blank Tapes

The Blank Tapes Home Away From Home San Francisco, CA Recorded to cassette tape by Matt Adams in Oakland, San Francisco and Apple Valley, CA Matt Adams must be one hell of a dynamic guy. His most...

Record Review: Bad Cop

Bad Cop Harvest the Beast Nashville, TN “Brash, psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll exuberance”From the opening riff on “Amores Perros” to the closing drum fade on “Control,” Bad Cop’s Harvest the Beast is 30...

Record Review: Astral

Astral Forever After San Francisco, CA "A dream that's a little too familiar" Forever After sounds dreamy - and for the most part, it is. It’s got spacey, reverberating guitars and fuzzed-out bass...

Record Review: Angrepp

Angrepp Warfare Stockholm, Sweden “Rape, kill, rock ‘n’roll (their words, not ours)” Stockholm’s Angrepp keeps the church fires burning with their primitive blend of D-beat punk and death-thrash...