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Music Issue 2015: Tampa Bay studio guide
Details on the studios we’ve profiled in preceding pages, plus other noteworthy spots, from commercial to boutique to home-based operations.ATOMIC AUDIOFounder/chief engineer: Mark NikolichClient...
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Music Issue 2015: MANA Recording Studios
Founder/engineer: Erik Rutan Rutan got his start recording in 1999, at a U-Store-It place off Skipper Road. A year later, he established an official space. Today, Rutan’s recording studio and...
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Music Issue 2015: ProStar Recording
Chief engineer: Jody Gray Amid the sprawling industrial hellscape in east-central St. Pete, ProStar is a beacon for a diverse range of musicians at every career level. The walls are plastered with rock...
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Music Issue 2015: Yoko Phono
Founders/engineers: Alexander and Philip Charos The Charos brothers are the primary creative force behind Alexander and the Grapes. They’ve also been recording notable locals at their home-based studio...
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Music Issue 2015: GNC Sessions at WMNF live studios
Founder/engineer: Alastair St. Hill Since 2007, Alastair St. Hill — the host of WMNF’s Grand National Championships with Jerrad McLeod and Matt Kannenberg — has had virtually every significant rising...
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Music Issue 2015: Will there be more Morrisound?
Tom Morris is blunt about the approach he and his brother Jim took with Tampa’s legendary Morrisound Studios. “When we built [it] no one thought about doing serious recording in their homes,” Morris,...
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Music Issue 2015: The life Atomic
Atomic Audio’s Mark Nicolich started out with punk and metal bands in the late ’90s, recording them in a tiny, cramped space at a Stor-Ette facility in East Tampa. Word of mouth spread about his...
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Music Issue 2015: Shawn Kyle's Warm and Alive studio is always on the move
More and more producers are going mobile. Local rocker Shawn Kyle (AMFMS, Florida Kilos) has operated this way under his Warm and Alive moniker for a few years now. His Tampa base of operations is...
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Music Issue 2015: Simply Red Room Recorders
While bedroom engineers have the luxury of being able to mine for sounds and explore every sonic crevice with reckless abandon like an inquisitive child, things are a bit different at Tampa Bay’s...
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Music Issue 2015: It’s a garage! It’s a studio! It’s Superbee!
The path to Brian Merrill’s Superbee Recording Studio is dotted with toys, bicycles and other family life accoutrements. That’s because to get there you have to cross the front porch of Merrill’s...
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Music Issue 2015: Have foam, will rumble at Billy Summer's home studio
A crème-colored pup named Dude greets me as I enter the swanky West St. Pete pad of musician Billy Summer and his wife, Zoe, which is trimmed with velvet paintings and quaintly strange little...
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Music Issue 2015: Parties at The Moontower
At The Moontower, it’s not the vintage gear that Aaron Lepley and Damon Dougherty can’t work without (though they’ve acquired an abundance of it in more than two decades of playing and recording...
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Album review: Have Gun, Will Travel, Science from an Easy Chair
A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew survived months stranded on the frozen ocean, Bradenton’s Have Gun, Will Travel are giving an epic tip of the cap to the harrowing tale of men who...
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Tampa Bay's best Ladies of the Mic hit St. Pete this Saturday
We've all been at those rap shows where the emcee yells, “Do my ladies run this mother?!?” in an effort to get the women to cheer. This article is not about that. While Samurai Shotgun frontman Prince...
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Tonight in live music: Good Graeff EP Release Party, The Hip Abduction & more
Some rather diverse concert offerings on this Fri., July 17. Breakdown below, plus a look at what's stopping through town this weekend...Good Graeff Album Release Party We love it when local(ish) acts...
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Surprise! Wilco drops a new (free) album, Star Wars
Looks like Jeff Tweedy & company just pulled a Beyonce on us. Last night, Wilco surprise-released their 11th studio album, Star Wars, for free on their website. Joining the pack of other...
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CL Record Fair and Music Issue 2015 Release Party to occur this Saturday
This year's Music Issue examines the changing face of the recording industry, how it's reflected locally, the growing trend of home studios, mobile producers and boutique studio spaces, and the...
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The Hip Hop ABCs: Winner of the Letter S; vote on Letter T
The Hip Hop ABCs is nearing its end as we reach the final eight letters of the alphabet. This is the second journey where we've decided, letter by letter, which artist or group is the best of hip...
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Weekend Tune-Up: Tunes for your weekend by Tame Impala, Ratatat, CHVRCHES & more
What a wet and rainy week. I hope the weekend proves drier, but if it doesn't, you will, at the very least, still have a brand new Weekend Tune-Up to soak up. We are into the second Friday of new...
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This Saturday in live music: WMNF Americana Fest, Sword & Dagger Fest 2, Kid...
A breakdown of live music happening this Sat., July 18.WMNF Americana Fest with wWaylon, Mekenzie Jackson, Wax Wings, Will Quinlan and The Holy Slow Train, Passerine, Bloody Jug Band, One Mile Final,...
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