https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7tNEjIbggVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Michael Beinhorn on Working with the Red Hot Chili Peppers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7tNEjIbgg) There are certain producers who do not just make records, they alter the trajectory of bands. Michael Beinhorn is one of…
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Chris Cornell, Michael Beinhorn, and the Moment Everything Changed
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ShzuRtwSiy8Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Chris Cornell Songwriting Troubles That Led To A Classic (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ShzuRtwSiy8) There are moments in music history where everything pivots, not with a grand announcement, however with a quiet, almost uncertain exchange…
When Giants Collide: Stanley Clarke and Billy Cobham in the Same Room
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42XVpbABO3oVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Stanley Clarke & Billy Cobham Outplaying Each Other With Ken Scott (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42XVpbABO3o) As told by Ken Scott There are dream sessions, and then there are sessions that teach you something profound…
ABBA’s Genius, Hook After Hook, A Conversation with Steven Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fX0F48DBAEVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Abba's Ultimate Hook Song (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fX0F48DBAE) “Mamma mia, here I go again.” Steven Wilson often uses Mamma Mia as the perfect example of why ABBA’s songwriting deserves far more respect than it sometimes gets, especially…
How the Slide Guitar Became the Backing Vocal on How Soon Is Now?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5HKXAXX3H-EVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Smiths Iconic Guitar Riff (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5HKXAXX3H-E) One of the most fascinating production decisions on How Soon Is Now? came from a limitation rather than an indulgence. Morrissey was famously against backing vocals on Smiths…
Life on Mars? The Bathroom Deadline, Mick Ronson’s Orchestration, and a Moment of Creative Brilliance
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E8IUyeAgJ7QVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: David Bowie's 'Life On Mars' – Mick Ronson Wrote String Arrangement in the Bathroom – Ken Scott (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E8IUyeAgJ7Q) Some of the most extraordinary moments in recorded music happen not because everything is…
White Christmas – The Biggest Selling Song of All Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2rWMl4jwsVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 'White Christmas' Songs That Changed Music: The World’s Best-Selling Single (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2rWMl4jws) In 1942, Bing Crosby introduced a new Christmas song to the world that would quietly become the most commercially successful song in…
Eric Clapton on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, As Told by Ken Scott
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQUdOEUq9LwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Eric Clapton Sounding Like The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps – With Ken Scott (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQUdOEUq9Lw) Every Beatles story takes on a mythic shape over time, however nothing beats hearing…
Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Possibility: Leaving Black Sabbath and Discovering Randy Rhoads
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yHY9HO1oOM8Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ozzy Osbourne From Black Sabbath To Blizzard Of Oz (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yHY9HO1oOM8) Ozzy Osbourne has stood at the centre of heavy music since the moment those ominous bells rang out on Black Sabbath’s debut.…
Stephen Street, Linger, and the Moment The Cranberries Found Their Sound
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sUuGvRdr1sVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Cranberries Iconic Intro Could have Been VERY Different (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sUuGvRdr1s) When Stephen Street first heard the demo of Linger, he instantly recognised what so many of us now hold as obvious. Dolores O’Riordan’s voice…
The Drum Sound of “My Hero” – Inside the Foo Fighters’ Raw Power
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2AQs4GBJtvUVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Foo Fighters doubled their drums on My Hero (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2AQs4GBJtvU) One of the most striking elements of the Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape (1997) is the colossal drum sound on “My Hero.”…
Michael Beinhorn’s Low End Alchemy: Recording the Bass on Soundgarden’s “Spoonman”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FFcVgNwVN1AVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Adding Weight To Bass Guitar (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FFcVgNwVN1A) When you think of Soundgarden’s Superunknown you immediately think of its sheer sonic weight. It’s heavy without being muddy, musical yet menacing and no song captures that…
The Greatest Song of All Time: Reimagining Bohemian Rhapsody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTJsNAT-NCwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Greatest Song of All Time: Reimagining Bohemian Rhapsody – With Multitracks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTJsNAT-NCw) When it comes to iconic songs, few can rival the brilliance of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. This six-minute opus is…
Sly Stone (1943–2025): The Genius Who Taught Us All to Feel
Sly Stone has left the building. And if you ever truly listened to Sly, you know that sentence hurts far more than words should. His passing today at the age of 82 marks the end of a chapter in music…
Hole’s “Celebrity Skin”: Inside the Song with Michael Beinhorn
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Fender Telecaster: The Guitar That Changed Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boP1APSuGEMVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Fender Telecaster: The Guitar That Changed Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boP1APSuGEM) The Fender Telecaster is the very first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, and one of the three iconic first-generation solid-body electric guitars. The other two…
“Ramble On” by Led Zeppelin: A Timeless Rock Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33jAc9qn6A&feature=youtu.beVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Led Zeppelin – Ramble On: Songs That Changed Music With J.J. Blair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33jAc9qn6A&feature=youtu.be) Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On,” from their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II, is a masterful blend of folk, hard rock,…
Black Hole Sun: How Chris Cornell and Michael Beinhorn Let Go of the Past to Find Soundgarden’s Future
What happens when lead singer Chris Cornell removes his self-imposed limitations on songwriting and embraces his own inspirations and desires? The world gets caught in the inescapable pull of 1994’s Black Hole Sun. The song is Soundgarden's greatest commercial success,…
Legendary Musician – Trey Gunn Interview (King Crimson, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp)
Trey Gunn is an American musician, composer, and producer who is best known for his work as a bassist in King Crimson, one of the most influential progressive rock bands in history. Born in Texas in 1960, Gunn began playing…
Songs That Changed Music: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
A growing snowball of Steinman’s artistic endeavors and experiences from his late teens and early 20s, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” arrived more like an avalanche of creative ideas on the doorsteps of The Power Station in 1982. The writer/producer/engineer/composer…
“Shake Rattle and Roll” by Big Joe Turner – Songs That Changed Music
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos What was the first rock ‘n roll record? Rocket 88? Rock around the Clock? Do we trace the music back to Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, or to Chuck Berry and Little Richard, or even…
How Sam Cooke Reimagined the Protest Song and Created a Civil Rights Anthem: “A Change is Gonna Come”
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos In the late fifties and early sixties, Sam Cooke had charted a new path in Black-pop music with Sweet Soul, a genre of crooner ballads and softer pop singles, infused with the influence of gospel,…
Summer Of ’69 by Bryan Adams – Songs That Changed Music
Teenage Nostalgia and the Power of Rock in the “Summer of ‘69” Written by Kieran Vaughn and Caitlin Vaughn Carlos Prior to the writing and recording process for “Summer of ‘69,” Bryan Adams found himself in the wake…
Satire or Reality?: The Beastie Boy’s “Fight For Your Right”
Written by Kieran Vaughn Satirical, Controversial and a live show favorite, the Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party” took 1986 by storm, bridging the color line of the hip-hop and rock communities and confusing fans and…
“Losing My Religion” – Lyrically Reflective, Tediously Recorded, and (Sort-Of) Created by Accident
Written by Kieran Vaughn Without hearing the actual song, most people in the southern sections of the United States could read the title of R.E.M.'s hit track and probably guess, with good accuracy, what it’s about. After all, the phrase…
Psychedelia on Tape: How Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” Captured Psychedelia in Song
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos In the Summer of 1967, San Francisco found itself in the midst of a cultural revolution – the Summer of Love - as thousands of young people with similar social, cultural, and artistic values all…
Songs That Changed Music: Fire and Rain
James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” and the Dawn Laurel Canyon Singer-Songwriters Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos The start of the seventies was an incredible time of powerful songwriting and self-expression. This was epitomized in the talents of a group of…
The World’s Best-Selling Single, “White Christmas,” and the Changing Landscape of the Music Industry in the 1940s
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos In 1942, Bing Crosby introduced a new Christmas classic to the world - “White Christmas.” The masterpiece of the legendary Tin Pan Alley composer Irving Berlin, “White Christmas” not only broke sales records for the…
Songs that Changed Music: Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Paranoid: How Black Sabbath Charted the Future of Heavy Metal Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos Before there was heavy metal, there was Black Sabbath. Arising from the ashes of the bleak industrial landscape of post-war Britain, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi,…
“You Oughta Know”:Alanis Morrisette and the Unapologetically Real Edge of this Best Selling Hit
The start of the 90s saw an ongoing tension between edgy - often dark - hard-rocking sounds, and the brighter, mainstream pop aesthetic. Industry expectations and marketing placed most female artists in the latter of these categories. But along came…
Songs That Changed Music: Natural Woman by Carole King
In the world of popular music, few praises are higher than that of John Lennon saying that he aspired to be like you. And few songwriters can claim such an honour. However, the two that can are, undoubtedly, two of…
Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult: Songs That Changed Music
Is it an optimistic take on the inevitability of death, or a glorification of suicide? Is the “sound” exemplary of Blue Öyster Cult’s music, or is it an anomaly that deviates from the style of their discography? Will the timeless…
Mixing Rock with Hunt Sales & Manny Nieto
This week, we not only shared our interview with Hunt Sales that has a truly touching sentiment to it, yesterday, we put out our weekly video on Songs That Changed Musicthat Hunt played drums on, Lust For Life by Iggy…
Lust For Life – Iggy Pop: Songs That Changed Music
From a simple recording of David Bowie on the Ukulele, “Lust for Life” was extrapolated into the instantly-recognizable song we know today. Rolling Stone placed it in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004—and yet again in 2021—when…
Roxy Music’s Magnum Opus, “Avalon” – Albums That Changed Music
Roxy Music have been called “the greatest art rock group Britain has produced this side of The Beatles,” and “the most influential British group after The Beatles.” Formed in 1971, Roxy Music reached its musical high point in 1982 with…
Beautiful Recording On A Budget – The Austrian Audio OC16 Review
We're blessed with not only incredibly talented musicians like Katie Ferrara and Blair Sinta but incredible brands that are making a lot of ground in a very short space of time. A few years ago, Austrian Audio had only two…
Woman In Chains by Tears For Fears: Songs That Changed Music
Some songs change the world and top the charts. Other songs have more modest showings but still manage to become staple tracks for generations of musicians, mixers, engineers, and producers to follow. In 1989, Tears for Fears created one of…
Discrete 4 Synergy Core by Antelope Audio Review
I love companies that think ahead and produce products that are packed full for productivity.Today, we are having a bit of Friday Fun!This week, my good friends Katie and Blair came down to the studio for a bit of recording…
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Artists Who Changed Music
For several nights at the end of August, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble were the support act for Eric Clapton at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. Clapton recalled that when he watched…
Recording Your Dream Drums At Middle Farm Studios
Today we are joined by the marvelous Mr Adam Steel of Hop Pole Studios. Check out his channel! He is starting a new recording and mixing series on the channel documenting his transition to a brand new... brand and recently worked…
Bryan Adam’s, Reckless – Albums That Changed Music
Written by Paul Tingen Bryan Adam’s fourth album Reckless is several milestones rolled into one. Released in 1984, it was Bryan Adams’ international breakthrough album. It brought big rock songs with guitars back to the forefront, at a time when…
Aretha at FAME: Where The Queen of Soul Found Her Voice
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos When Aretha Franklin entered Fame studios in 1967, she was undoubtedly a prodigious talent, but she hadn’t yet found the voice that would crown her the Queen of Soul. While the sessions have gone…
Interview: Teddy Richards – Genre-Defying Guitarist
Today, we're sharing Warren's interview with the incredible Teddy Richards. About Teddy Richards After serving 30 years as Aretha Franklin's guitarist, Teddy Richards emerged as a gifted singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer and music publisher. Teddy has been hailed by the press as 'a…
The Definitive Interview: Stephen Lipson – World Renowned British Producer
Stephen Lipson is one of the UK’s leading record producers and songwriters. People say the test of a genuinely great record producer isn’t whether or not they’ve had a couple of hits but whether they can keep having them. If…
How ABBA Found Pop Perfection with “Dancing Queen”
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos At the start of the seventies, the idea of a musical group from a non-English speaking country having significant and consistent chart success in the English speaking market, seemed unimaginable. But in the mid-seventies, one…
Songs That Changed Music: Thin Lizzy – “The Boys Are Back in Town”
Thin Lizzy spent years fine-tuning their sound before becoming one of the most recognized rock bands of the mid-70s. What started as a bluesy folk rock project influenced by Celtic culture and frontman Phil Lynott’s Irish upbringing took a 180…
Gerry Rafferty: Avoiding the Spotlight on “Baker Street”
Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos At the start of the eighties, the saxophone was suddenly and unexpectedly omnipresent. From TV commercials to rock singles, its smooth, sultry tones seemed to be found everywhere. By mid-decade, it was the most popular…
Artists who Changed Music: Aretha Franklin
Written by Paul Tingen Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, and one of the biggest names in American music. She has been called “The Voice of Black America,” as well as “America’s Truest Voice,” “the voice that gave America…
Songs that Changed Music: Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way (ft. James Gadson)
Exclusive Interview with Thelma Houston, Superstar Drummer James Gadson and Grammy-Winning Songwriter/Producer Jimmy Webb by Michael Menachem The allure of a great disco song is an infectious arrangement, lively instrumentation and a stellar vocal to take you away into the…
Artists Who Changed Music: Django Reinhardt
Written by Paul Tingen Django Reinhard has been called “the greatest guitarist who ever lived.” During his heyday, the 1930s and 40s, Reinhardt came up with solo and harmonic innovations on the guitar that had a big impact on modern…