It seems that per usual, I have dropped the ball on the blogging. I would say that t won’t happen again, but why start off this entry with a lie?

At any rate, things have been pretty busy around here. I just finished off some music for an upcoming play about chanteuse Nico that I think is going to be amazing, and a few projects that I’ve worked on recently have seen release.

Probably most notably, there’s Nada Surf’s If I Had a Hi-fi , which I engineered quite a bit of and mixed a tune on. One of the great highlights of the projects was having Doug Gillard, formerly of Guided By Voices (my favorite band, period), come in to lay down guitar tracks on a few of the song. Three Japan-only bonus tracks that you’ll only be able to find over there were recorded, mixed and co-produced by yours truly.

Another record that I mixed here, Trumpeter Swan’s Listen For Clues, has also hit the streets, and I can’t say enough about this one. Drew Patrizi, who used to play keyboards in What Made Milwaukee famous is the man behind the Swan, and we had a great, if grueling time pulling together all of the layers of synths, horns, guitars and vintage keyboards that he had laid down during the album’s long period of gestation. You can listen to part of the album here.

New Jersey’s Those Mockingbirds,  who we worked with early in the year, also got their new EP out recently. One of the songs recorded, mixed and produced up in here made it to number one on Amazon.com’s emerging artists chart. That gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Go team!

Last but certainly not least, the live acoustic tracks that I recorded and mixed for the videos of Silversun Pickups playing live at Spin Magazine of are available here.

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