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The 1975 Release ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’ Recorded In Part At Electric Lady

 

With Being Funny In A Foreign Language, The 1975 fuse together the textures and musical ideas of soft-rock hits from three decades ago with modern sensibilities in a way that sounds instantly familiar, yet distinctively of-the-moment. Their fifth studio album was recorded alongside producer Jack Antonoff between London and New York at Electric Lady.

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MUNA, Live at Electric Lady

One their new Live at Electric Lady EP, MUNA have shared their rendition of Taylor Swift’s “August.” The Spotify-exclusive EP also includes tracks from their self-titled album, including “Silk Chiffon,” “Anything but Me,” and “Kind of Girl.”

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Remi Wolf, Live at Electric Lady

On her ‘Live at Electric Lady’ EP, Remi Wolf shares her cover of a modern classic: Frank Ocean’s “Pink + White.” Released exclusively on Spotify, the EP also features live renditions of songs from Wolf’s own discography including singles “Sauce” and “Liz.”

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YEBBA, Live At Electric Lady

YEBBA’s “Live At Electric Lady” features tracks from her debut album Dawn, which was released in September of 2021. Arranged and produced by James Francies, the Spotify-exclusive EP features contributions from Questlove, Stro Elliot, Pino Palladino, Charles Myers, and string players Marta Bagratuni, Francesca Dardani, Sally Gorski, and Tia Allen. 

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YEBBA Covers John Mayer’s “The Age Of Worry” for Spotify’s Live At Electric Lady Series

Watch YEBBA cover “The Age Of Worry” from John Mayer’s ‘Born and Raised’ album, which was originally recorded in the very same room a decade ago with producer Don Was. 

In response to YEBBA’s release of this cover single, John Mayer wrote, “So moved. Thank you for showing what’s been hiding in my own work through your profoundly powerful and soulful take. You are so special I can’t stand/understand it sometimes.” 

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Japanese Breakfast, Live At Electric Lady

Japanese Breakfast’s “Live At Electric Lady” features a cover of Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” accompanied by Quartet121. The Spotify-exclusive EP also features live renditions of songs from Michelle Zauner’s 2021 album “Jubilee,” including singles “Be Sweet” and “Savage Good Boy.” 

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Faye Webster, Live At Electric Lady

Faye Webster is the latest artist to share an installment of Spotify’s ongoing live music series Live at Electric Lady. Her session at the iconic studio features a cover of the Fleet Foxes song “If You Need To, Keep Time on Me,” from 2017’s Crack-Up

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Natalie Bergman, Live At Electric Lady

When Natalie Bergman first visited Electric Lady Studios years ago, she said she “fell in love with the studio; the collage work on the walls, the color palette of the rooms, the music that is and was created there.” Bergman returned to Electric Lady to perform six songs from her debut album, “Mercy,” for Spotify’s “Live At Electric Lady” series.

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Jon Batiste, Live At Electric Lady

Featuring a number of songs from his recently released album, as well as a selection of notable covers, Jon Batiste’s Live At Electric Lady EP offers an exciting peek inside a world-class studio filled with world-class talent.

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Jack Antonoff Makes His Most Cohesive Album Yet With Bleachers’ ‘Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night,’ Recorded at Electric Lady Studios

Whether it’s the etherealness of “Chinatown” (featuring fellow New Jersey mainstay Bruce Springsteen), the Devo-meets-Talking-Heads quirk in “Stop Making This Hurt” or the ping-ponging guitar and saxophone in “How Dare You Want More,” the album is an ideal representation of Antonoff’s restless creativity.

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Lee Foster on Electric Lady’s Innovation During the Pandemic, For Billboard

“As Lee Foster, partner/GM of New York’s iconic Electric Lady Studios, says, ‘There is no replacement for real human interaction and connectiveness in music making.’ Which is why the studio — which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year — quickly established safety protocols that included advance COVID-19 testing, on-site screening, mask mandates and socially distanced sessions.”

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Run The Jewels Release ‘Ooh LA LA’, Recorded at Electric Lady

Run the Jewels unveiled another new bruising track, “Ooh LA LA,” from their upcoming album Run the Jewels 4. The track is centered around a sample taken from Greg Nice’s verse on the 1992 Gang Starr classic, “DWYCK,” while it also features record scratching from DJ Premier. That combo lends the song a distinctly old school vibe, over which El-P and Killer Mike are at their egregious best.

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Jack Antonoff for LA Times, shot at Electric Lady Studios

“Electric Lady is saturated in myth. But song by song, Antonoff has written his way in.

Antonoff’s own records now line those hallowed Electric Lady walls, including Lorde’s 2017 pop opus “Melodrama,” St. Vincent’s sleek 2018 “Masseduction” and Lana Del Rey’s recent spectral masterpiece, “Norman F— Rockwell!” — he produced and co-wrote all three.”

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MUNA Strip Down ‘Stayaway’ & Cover Normani’s ‘Motivation’ for Spotify Singles

Los Angeles-based band MUNA traveled to the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City to record two special Spotify Singles, which were released Nov. 13. The trio stripped down their original song “Stayaway,” which was part of their sophomore studio album Saves The World released Sept. 6 this year, and covered Normani’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 33 hit, “Motivation.”

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Bruce Springsteen ‘Western Stars’ Mixed by Tom Elmhirst at Electric Lady

Springsteen albums are usually grand affairs but he’s never made one that sounds so vast and luxurious throughout. Paired with the down-and-out characters who haunt its mountains and canyons, the purposefully anachronistic arrangements—recalling jukeboxes, FM radios, sepia-toned montages, faded memories—carry an elegiac tone. It’s been a long time since popular music sounded like this, and it ties these characters to an era as much as a place.

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Paste: Weyes Blood No.1 Album of 2019

Electric Lady Producer Management’s Jonathan Rado: Titanic Rising doesn’t feel blissfully adrift. Instead, it feels like Mering knows exactly where she’s going. You can hear it in the robust string sections of album opener “A Lot’s Gonna Change” and the sturdy backbone-beat of “Andromeda” and the sentiments of “Wild Time,” a patient ambler with a ‘70s soft-rock vibe (including a hint of “Landslide”) and a plainspoken bridge: “Everyone’s broken now,” Mering sings, “And no one knows just how we could have all gotten so far from truth.”

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FKA Twigs Returns with new song “Cellophane” recorded in-part at Electric Lady

A still from FKA Twigs’ “Cellophane” video.

Discussing the process of creating “Cellophane,” executive produced by Noah Goldstein, FKA twigs said in a statement, “throughout my life I’ve practiced my way to being the best I could be, it didn’t work this time. I had to tear down every process I’d ever relied on. go deeper. rebuild. start again.”

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Cage the Elephant New Album ‘Social Cues’ Mixed by Tom Elmhirst at Electric Lady

Matt Shultz could make it through only one take. The lead singer of the Kentucky rock band Cage the Elephant was recently in the studio recording “Goodbye,” a John Lennon-inspired ballad Shultz wrote for his wife as their seven-year relationship was ending. Shultz delivered it lying on the studio floor. Afterward, he walked out and canceled the next two weeks of work.

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Watch Thom Yorke Solo Sessions at Electric Lady Studios

“Filmed on November 19th at the historic Electric Lady, the clip shows Yorke playing “Bloom” as a simple blues. With just his bare voice (“So why does this still hurt?/Don’t blow your mind with why”), his jazzy piano chords, and some light feedback burbling in the background, you can hear the heart of the song more clearly than ever. It’s a gorgeous act of reinterpretation, the kind of performance that can make you rethink your entire understanding of a song.”

 

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Watch Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Sean Ono Lennon Perform ‘War Is Over’ at Electric Lady

 

Following their performance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ last weekend, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson and Sean Lennon celebrate the season with a heartfelt update of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” All three unite again in Vevo’s exclusive performance of the holiday classic, shot at the iconic Electric Lady in New York City.

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Forever Mariah: An Interview With an Icon At Electric Lady Studios

It takes a village to promote an album, and on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Mariah Carey has at least 10 people with her when she arrives at Electric Lady Studios in New York. There is a makeup person and a hair person, a manager and publicists, a lawyer and what might be a bodyguard, and an entire other group of people who are hard to place. Mariah is tall in high-heeled black boots and perfectly done up, with hair as straight as I’ve ever seen hair be, two hoop earrings that shimmer from her ears, and a megawatt smile. Everyone is in good spirits, like a winning sports team in the locker room at halftime

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Arctic Monkeys Record Cover of Stephen Fretwell’s “–” at Electric Lady Studios

Arctic Monkeys released their latest album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, back in May. Since then, they’ve covered Elvis Costello, the White Stripes, and the Strokes. Today, they share a cover of English singer-songwriter Stephen Fretwell’s “-” from his 2004 album Magpie for Spotify Singles. Their version is called “–” which they recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York.

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David Bowie’s “Beat Of Your Drum” Reworked at Electric Lady Studios

Next month, the latest volume in the exhaustive David Bowie box set collection is being released. Loving The Alien (1983-1988) contains all of his studio and live albums from that period, plus a new production of the 1987 album Never Let Me Down, his final solo album of the ’80s. The 2018 version of the album was recorded by producer Mario McNulty at Electric Lady Studios in NYC with some longtime Bowie collaborators, plus string arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest appearance from Laurie Anderson.

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Spotify, Berklee & Electric Lady Studios Launch EQL Studio Residency Program for Female Producers, Engineers

 

Spotify, in partnership with Berklee College of Music and Electric Lady Studios, has announced that it will be launching the Equal (EQL) Studio Residency Program for emerging female producers and engineers.

​The program, which will begin on Oct. 1, will offer residencies in three different cities: New York, Nashville and London. During these paid six-month residencies, one participant in each city will work hands-on in a professional studio environment and gain access to invaluable networking and mentoring opportunities to further their career.

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How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz

 

The Soulquarians didn’t set out to revolutionize the pulse of modern jazz. Maybe it’s an overstatement to imply that they did. But there can be no doubt that the slouchy, loose-jointed, atmospherically humid funk that they alchemized in the studio — specifically, Electric Lady Studios, in Greenwich Village — had a reach well beyond the scope of neo-soul, the inexact genre coalescing around them. A considerable number of young jazz artists were paying close attention to what they were doing, at any rate. A few even got in on the ground floor.

For a handful of years straddling the turn of the century, the Soulquarians treated Electric Lady as a clubhouse — a perpetual hang unburdened by the usual ticking clock of the recording studio.

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How David Bowie’s Biggest ‘Disappointment’ Became a Posthumous, Reworked Album

Born from David Bowie’s desire to re-record the 1987 LP that he called “a bitter disappointment,” the seeds of this new reimagining were first sown in 2008 when Bowie asked producer/engineer @mariojmcnulty to remix the track ‘Time Will Crawl’ and record new drums with longtime drummer Sterling Campbell along with strings at Electric Lady Studios. The track was issued on the iSelect compilation to much acclaim and, in the notes for that record, David remarked ‘Oh, to redo the rest of that album.’ ⚡️ In early January of this year, McNulty and musicians again entered New York’s Electric Lady Studios to fulfill Bowie’s wish to remake “Never Let Me Down,” which now features a guest appearance by Laurie Anderson on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).” The 2018 reworking also boasts “newly ‘remixed’ artwork reflecting the album’s subject matter and features unseen images from the original cover photographic session from the archive of Greg Gorman. ⚡️ We love and miss you, David ⚡️

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Stevie Wonder and TONTO: The Synth Orchestra and Production Duo Behind His Pivotal Albums

“The most undersold part of Stevie’s legacy may be the collaboration with two producers, Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil, and the pair’s massive synthesizer, TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra).”

“With an instrument like TONTO you can’t write a line ahead of time, because until you get the sound up, you don’t know how it’s going to react with the other sounds. Everything was done sort of jazz fashion, it was all head arrangements… sometimes some of the lines would be suggested. That horn line [from “Superstition] I was singing it… and then Stevie started playing it. That was how we worked.”

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Electric Lady Producer Management: How Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado Became One of Indie Rock’s Most In-Demand Producers

But deep within the distinctly uncool area that produced the Valley Girl stereotype, Foxygen multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Rado slowly began to leave his mark on the overall sound of 2010s indie rock, one tape recording at a time. Now, only four years after he bought a compressor and used it completely wrong throughout the entirety of Foxygen’s …And Star Power — he had heard that Todd Rundgren used to press all of the buttons in at the same time — Rado has become one of the most in-demand producers in his genre, pumping out acclaimed records from Father John Misty, The Lemon Twigs, Whitney, Alex Cameron and more, most of which hail from his Woodland Hills garage.

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Patti Smith Performs With Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe At ‘Horses’ Documentary Premiere

To mark the fortieth anniversary of Horses, her 1975 debut album, Smith recorded a new live version of it at New York’s Electric Lady Studios before an in-studio audience and then hit the road to perform the album in full for packed theaters around the world. Director Steven Sebring, who worked with Smith and company on his debut documentary, 2008’s Patti Smith: Dream of Life, joined their caravan, and Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band hovers over a two-night stand in January 2016 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.

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