Shane Mehling

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• Bass Management: 9 Essential Elements of a Vibrant Bass Sound  February 2008

  Hal Cragin has played with everyone from Iggy Pop to They Might Be Giants, and from Frank Black to Sarah McLachlan. He’s also an accomplished producer, and his most recent project is A Fine Frenzy’s One Cell In the Sea [Virgin] ...

• Elegantly Raw  February 2008

  Ville Valo and Tim Palmer Juggle Impact and Atmosphere on HIM’s Metal Opus, Venus Doom.

• TOCA and Producer Colin Fairbairn On How to Make an Album the Hard Way  February 2008

  No one ever said that making a record is easy. TOCA—an L.A.-based band that seamlessly combines indie rock, hip-hop, and Latin music into a refreshing musical gumbo—can attest to that fact; as can their producer, Colin Fairbairn, who ...

• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Go For the Live Vibe  January 2008

  “I don’t really care about what people are doing nowadays,” says Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings bassist Gabe Roth. “It’s not that I have an agenda against the digital world, but higher signal-to-noise ratios, conversion rates, and transparent ...

• Jason Holstrom Goes Organic for his Hawaiian-themed Thieves of Kailua  December 2007

  Guitarist, producer, and United State of Electronica contributor Jason Holstrom was mesmerized enough by a trip to Hawaii a few years back that the island’s mystique inspired his solo debut, Thieves of Kailua. In fact, the island vibe ...

• Mark Howard on Tracking the Serene Harmonies of Chris and Thomas  October 2007

  Alt-folk artists Chris and Thomas knew their voices had to be scrupulous recorded in order to realize their creative vision for Land of Sea [Defend/Boar]. So they put their trust in engineer/producer Mark Howard — the man behind ...

• Grails  July 2007

  “We’ve been poor forever,” laments Emil Amos from Northwest art-droners Grails. “We’d get some money, and go in to record what we thought was going to be the meat of the record, scrap it all, and then be broke. That’s why we decided ...

• The F$%&ing Champs  July 2007

  There really isn’t another band like The F$%&ing Champs. For years the San Francisco-based trio have been a metallic force to be reckoned with, unabashedly channeling bands such as Iron Maiden, Queen, and Led Zeppelin with an idiosyncratic ...

• Nate "Danjahandz" Hills  July 2007

  Most 25-year-olds don’t find themselves fielding questions about winning Grammys, but after Nate “Danjahandz” Hills won two this year for his work with Timbaland on Justin Timerlake’s smash hit Futuresex/Lovesounds, he knew ...

• Shawn Clement  July 2007

  Shawn Clement has been known for years as a major contribution to TV shows such as Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and World''s Scariest Police Chases, along with films and cartoons. But over a decade after he started in ...