Despite the increase in amateur and professional musicians recording songs, even whole albums, on their home equipment, Los Angeles and its outlying areas still boast the highest concentration of ...

The New Jersey recording space built in 1959 by Rudy Van Gelder is filled with history. Can it regain its glory without getting stuck in the past? The percussion recording room in Rudy Van Gelder’s ...

The array of activities is familiar to Chicago Recording Co. general manager Chris Shepard as he walks from floor to floor, studio to studio one late morning: a young rock band loading into the large ...

If you’re a voice actor who's building your own recording studio, soundproofing is essential to achieving clear, professional-grade work. Whether you are in need of budget-friendly studio ...

Studio A at One On One is one of the most beautiful recording spaces in all of LA. The thing about a place as big as LA is there are always new hidden gems to discover. I have been part of the LA ...

Today’s episode is dominated by instruments you’d find in a high school band room and many of our featured teen artists discovered their love for performing through school music programs. We meet a ...

Bestselling albums don’t pop out of thin air; rather, they are built, coddled, and obsessed over for months by artists, producers, and writers alike. Most of that process takes place inside a ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #10 of Paste Magazine in June/July of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. The greatest albums and singles don’t drop from the sky to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. The tale of David Crafa and his road to starting renowned New York City recording ...

Nashville’s reputation as the Music City just got a little more established thanks to a new pair of writing rooms-slash-recording studios, which just opened in one of the city’s top boutique hotels.

Not long ago, Mike Brown's business model at Lava Room Recording focused entirely on music. Clients such as Joe Walsh or Paramore would cut an album at the studio, then return the next year to do it ...

You don’t have to be a musician to know that recording music is crucial. It captures and immortalizes the songs, albums and other releases we love to listen to, which end up serving as nostalgic time ...