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Dave Fridmann produces the new Low, Mercury
Rev, and
Sleater-Kinney albums. |
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TV On The Radio’s Desperate Youths,
Bloodthirsty Babes, co-mixed and recorded by
Paul Mahajan, goes on to win
the Shortlist Music Prize. Paul also recorded The
National's acclaimed new album Alligator. |
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Tony Doogan produces Modern
Dog, whose single "Found" goes to #1 in their native
Thailand. |
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Bill Racine continues to
receive great notice for his work on Rogue Wave’s debut
album for Sub Pop. |
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Sandy Pearlman continues to push the envelope
(as he has always done as producer of the Blue Oyster
Cult, The Clash, and The Dictators) by
proposing to combat illegal file sharing by selling all
songs for 5 cents. |
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Bill Whitten puts the finishing touches on the
next Grand Mal album after
the critically acclaimed Bad Timing (Arena Rock). |
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Dave Fridmann earns even
more cred through his work on the new albums by indie
superstars Low (Sub Pop) and Sleater-Kinney
(Sub Pop). He has put his stamp on another amazing
Mercury Rev album, The Secret Migration
(V2). He is working on the surround sound remix of
The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)
after the completion of the acclaimed surround sound mix
of The Lips’ Yoshimi. And he attracts
even more than usual attention for his work on the
latest Phantom Planet (Epic) album. |
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After 2003’s brilliant Young
Liars EP, Paul Mahajan continues his work
with TV on the Radio on the Short List Music
Prize winner Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty
Babes and on the new single “New Health Rock.”
Having worked with the cream of the new New York rock
scene in 2003 (TVOTR, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and
Liars), he has continued working with up and coming
NYC based artists including the introspective The
National (Beggars Banquet), PS (led by Irish
singer/ songwriter/rocker Patrick Savage) and the
electronic Burnside Project. |
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Tony Doogan traveled to
Thailand to produce native superstars Modern Dog,
and ended up with a #1 single ("Found"). He also
continued his longtime collaboration with fellow
Glaswegians The Delgados on their new critically
acclaimed album, Universal Audio (Chemikal
Underground) as well as Belle & Sebastian’s
critically and commercially successful Dear
Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade), which
just achieved gold status, and its various singles. He
also spent some time up at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road
Studios producing and recording the new album by Lake
Trout (Rx / Palm Pictures). And he also produced
and mixed UK indie sensation The Research (At
Large/ EMI) and Seachange. |
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Besides getting props for his work
on
Rogue Wave’s debut album (Sub Pop),
Bill Racine
has been
busy recording
some of NYC’s finest up and coming bands, including Mercury
Rev offshoots
Hopewell
and Silent League offshoots
Loaded Dreams. He still shuttles up to Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Studios on occasion to
work with the likes of
Mark Gardener
(from
Ride) and will do live sound (The
Flaming Lips’s
appearance on
Late Night With Conan O’Brien).
And he just completed a new
Rogue Wave track for the
Stubbs The Zombie videogame (Aspyr) and soundtrack (which
will also feature the music of The Flaming Lips, Death
Cab For Cutie, The Walkmen, etc.). Bill just entered the
studio to work on the next Rogue Wave album. |
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Sandy Pearlman
is
currently serving as the technology mastermind to
various internet companies and is a visiting scholar at
McGill
University
while continuing to run San Francisco bay area studio
Alpha & Omega.
Sandy continues to seek out young artists to work with who can
have an impact on rock history (as did his past
collaborations with Blue Oyster Cult, The
Clash and The Dictators). |
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Here's what the critics
have to say about Grand Mal's
Bad Timing. |
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New York Times:
"Grand Mal mixes three parts Rolling Stones, one part
Velvet Underground and the wit to come up with lines
like, "I'm going home I can't sit still/When I'm with
you I feel incurably ill," for rock with an unabashed
swagger." |
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Pitchfork: 8.0 out of 10.0 |
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NME:
8 out of 10 |
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Kerrang: 4 out of 5 K’s |
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Uncut: 4 out of 5 *’s |
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Lost at Sea: "without a doubt one of the best
releases of 2003" |
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Cream Online: “Bad
Timing
is one of the best albums of the year and will more than
likely turn out to be the trash-rock album of 2003.” |
