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Adam Duritz and David Immergluck of Counting Crows on their new album Sep 03, 2014

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Somewhere Under Wonderland is the seventh studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on September 2, 2014, through Capitol Records. It's available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download. The album is the band's first release of original material since 2008's Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings.

The album marks the band's first release on Capitol Records. After parting with original label Geffen Records of 18 years in 2009, the band released two live albums and a studio album of cover songs independently. While touring in the "Outlaw Roadshow," a traveling festival show sponsored by the band in part with the music blog Ryan's Smashing Life, the band began to write new material. After recording independently, they shopped the album around to eight or nine labels and finally signed with Capitol.

Writing of material for the new album began early in 2013 and continued during that year's summer tour. Duritz explained in concert that "God of Ocean Tides" was the first new song he'd written in years, and was inspired by leaving Nashville on their tour bus at two in the morning. Duritz, Powers, Vickrey, and Immergluck got together in New York City that August for a 10-day writing session during which they wrote six songs. Expecting to go into the studio in late Fall 2013, the band began recording for the new album in early December and finished in February 2014.

Jack Douglas - Music Producer Aug 21, 2014

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This week we sit down with veteran music producer Jack Douglas to talk about his beginnings in New York as a music engineer and producer and later working on mega rock albums with Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, New York Dolls, and John Lennon.

Boom Library - Sound Effects Library Aug 18, 2014

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In this weeks episode we talk with the BOOM Library group which was founded in 2010 by award winning audio guys from Dynamedion, the biggest European game audio studio based in Mainz, Germany.

The BOOM Library prides itself on providing high end, ultimate sound effects for all media and audio professionals. Our products have this specific edge you will not find anywhere else: every collection comes with a 96 KHz high definition, huge source library of our original recordings + a great variety of designed SFX, ready to use.

Scott Millan and Curt Sobel - The Sound of "Get on Up" Aug 11, 2014

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This week we talk with the sound and music team behind the film GET ON UP starring Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in this biopic from Director Tate Taylor (The Help).

We talk with Re-recording Mixer Scott Millan and Music Production Supervisor Curt Sobel about the music that is featured in the film and the work that was required to prepare a wide range of archival recordings for the big screen.

Frank Bry - Sound Recordist Aug 04, 2014

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Idaho based sound recordist Frank Bry has been featuring his sound effects libraries with the online community since 1998 when he launched therecordist.com.

We spoke with Frank to hear more about his early projects as a Audio Director working on the Emulator III digital sampler and how he transitioned into becoming a passionate and committed recordist and sound effects library company.

Chris Dugan - Green Day Engineer Jul 28, 2014

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Bay Area based engineer and producer Chris Dugan talks with the SoundWorks Collection about his road to Jingle Town Studios. We talk about his journey as a small studio owner to recording the grammy winning Green Day album American Idiot.

Chris also talks about an unreleased Green Day holiday album and his perspective on recording albums with different size budgets.