Author: Electric Lady

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AXS TV’s sit-down series The Big Interview kicked off with an in-depth discussion with Brian Johnson, AC/DC frontman.

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 “Lover” is a career-capping masterpiece: She touches every place she’s ever visited along her musical journey, and makes them all sound new.

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Vampire Weekend’s new Spotify Singles session features two tracks recorded at Electric Lady Studios: a piano-led, rendition of “This Life” and a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A. track “I’m Goin’ Down.”

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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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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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Miley Cyrus has dropped a new EP, She Is Coming. The six-song collection is the first of three EPs planned by the singer and includes pulsating pop single “Mother’s Daughter.”

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Young Thug, J. Cole, and Travis Scott have teamed up for a brand new track. It’s called “The London.” Listen to the T-Minus-produced single here.

YEBBA, who hails from West Memphis, Arkansas and has roots in gospel, delivers a classic disco diva turn on “Don’t Leave Me Lonely,” pushing her vocals over Ronson’s infectious production, which expertly mixes dance drums and synth stabs with clever string flourishes.

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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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The Clash news broadcast from the making of Combat Rock at Electric Lady Studios in 1982.

BROCKHAMPTON’s Kevin Abstract has dropped three new solo songs. “Big Wheels,” “Joy Ride,” and “Georgia” appear on a new project called ARIZONA baby.

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Recorded at the famed Electric Lady Studios in NYC’s Greenwich Village – Electric Lady Sessions is a double album live collection featuring classic LCD Soundsystem songs, three covers, and newer material from the band’s # 1 album from 2018, American Dream.

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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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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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“Fifty years ago, Jimi Hendrix used some of the proceeds from his new stardom to buy a defunct rock club in New York’s West Village and transform it into a psychedelic studio playground.”

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Thom Yorke sits down at Electric Lady Studios to perform the track “Open Again” from his Suspiria soundtrack. Yorke preformed three other tracks which you can listen to here.

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 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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LCD Soundsystem covered the Chic standard “I Want Your Love” as part of a Spotify Singles session released on Wednesday. The group recorded the session at New York City’s Electric Lady Studios. In addition to the medley of “Home” and “I Want Your Love,” they also cut a version of “Tonite,” the second single from 2017’s American Dream.

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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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In 1998, the neo soul movement was near its peak when a collective of like-minded artists came together at Electric Lady to push the wave even higher. They called themselves the Soulquarians, and before the decade ended they’d help birth some of the modern era’s greatest recordings.

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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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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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“I took over Electric Lady Studios in NYC to take you through the making of my new single, “New Light,” for IGTV.”

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“ALBUM DONE,” Rocky tweeted on Sunday night, along with the album’s cover art. While there isn’t a confirmed release date as of yet (he could be dropping it right now as you read this), residents have pointed out that Testing billboards have already appeared in New York.

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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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The Kills: Live At Electric Lady is officially on sale in collaboration with Record Store Day, available only at participating independent record shops throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

The live album was recorded on the 15th anniversary of the band’s first ever performance together. Playing to a small, invitation-only crowd inside Electric Lady’s Studio “A,” Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince deliver a snarling, powerful 10 song set. 

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As Hendrix would make each new recording, it would be logged and stored at his own Electric Lady Studios, which he opened in August 1970. “Electric Lady had this enormous wall of closets, and most of them were full of tapes, and only Jimi and I had the keys,” Kramer recalls. “We’d say, ‘Let’s get this pile out and go through it.’ He had these legal pads, and as we listened he would write down precisely what the instruments should be doing.” But before they could finish the album, Hendrix died while on tour in Europe that September.

Even though Electric Lady was open for only a short time, Kramer has vivid memories of working on music there with Hendrix. The sessions would be like performances in and of themselves: Hendrix would be handling the faders for the guitar and vocals, and Kramer would be leaping around the console trying to keep it all together. “After we faded down, we’d collapse laughing,” he says. It was that experience, both having fun with Hendrix and learning what he wanted from a mix, that has provided the template for how Kramer has mixed all of Hendrix’s posthumous releases.

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This week, Billy Idol announced the  vinyl rerelease of the multi-platinum ‘Rebel Yell,’ featuring the classic songs “Flesh For Fantasy,” “Eyes Without A Face,” and “Rebel Yell.” Check out an excerpt from an old article from Mix about the recording of the lead single from the album:

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Billboard Magazine had a chat with Zayne Malik while he was working inside our Studio A:

“There aren’t many places in New York, or anywhere else for that matter, that feel as cocooned from the ­outside world as the live room in Electric Lady’s Studio A. Designed to Jimi Hendrix’s ­specifications, the curvy space is stocked with shiny vintage gear, faded Persian rugs and a cosmic, wall-sized mural. On this Sunday night in September, a little after 9 p.m., the room’s sole occupant is a slight, ­strikingly handsome 24-year-old, whose unique ­combination of global fame and acute anxiety can make life outside of insulated creative oases like this one ­challenging, and who is currently kicked back on an overstuffed leather sofa, pulling ­meditatively from a joint and watching the smoke curl toward the sound-­deadened ceiling.”

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Recently in an interview with Mitch Lafon, Gene Simmons of KISS told the story of producing one of Van Halen’s first demos at Electric Lady Studios:

“I discovered Van Halen playing in a club and signed them to my Man of 1,000 Faces production company, flew them to New York, produced 15 songs at Electric Lady Studios.

And then when I got too busy I tore up the contract and I said, ‘You guys are free. I gotta go back on tour, and if I have time at the end of the tour I’ll go shopping for a deal for you. I can’t ethically, personally, hold on to you guys while I’m off on tour.’

So I did the right thing. And the guys, of course, got signed right away. And in return, the brothers Van Halen were kind enough to appear on three songs that I wrote when we came back from Japan in 1978.”

Listen to the full interview here.

 

Billboard Magazine has included Electric Lady Studios in it’s list of top recording studios of 2017.

 

From Billboard:

“Founded by Jimi Hendrix in 1970, the Big Apple landmark still operates in the heart of Greenwich Village as one of the oldest working studios in the city due in part to its cool aesthetic, which partner/GM Lee Foster describes as “late-’60s futurism meets midcentury modern.” Stevie Wonder and Blondie are just a few of the acts that have recorded at the location, while Foster’s stewardship has helped reawaken the space in recent years with artists like Ryan Adams and St. Vincent gracing its rooms.”

We are proud to announce the release of Fleet Foxes new live 10″ vinyl EP called ‘The Electric Lady Session,’ out on Black Friday, November 24 at selected independent record stores. The EP contains four songs recorded live during their WFUV session here in Studio A. To find a participating independent record store near you, visit recordstoreday.com. Thanks to Nonesuch and WFUV for making this happen.

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s album “Rest,” recorded at Electric Lady, has garnered Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music accolade. From Pitchfork:

“Songs like these affirm life, even in the face of death. They transform personal suffering into public spectacle. Few things are more terrifying than exposing our bruises to others, knowing that they could misunderstand, or prey on our vulnerability. On Rest, Gainsbourg doesn’t just reveal her pain, but monumentalizes it, lays out a red carpet, and invites people to watch. Her refusal to be sequestered by grief is, quite literally, a death-defying feat.”

“Rest” is the fourth project recorded here this year to receive Pitchfork’s praises, along with ‘Melodrama’ by Lorde,  ‘A Deeper Understanding’ by The War On Drugs, and ‘Crack-Up’ by Fleet Foxes. Read the rest of the Pitchfork review here.

 

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg was interviewed by Vanity Fair in anticipation of her upcoming album ‘Rest,’ recorded here at Electric Lady Studios. Read the article here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago, photographer Christopher von Steinbach stopped by our studios for a shoot with Darya Dar for Playboy Magazine’s new music issue – it’s available on stands now.

 

Annie Clark talks about her upcoming St. Vincent album, recorded in part here at Electric Lady Studios, with The New Yorker:

“Most days, she got up at sunrise, took a Pilates class, and then headed to Electric Lady to work past sundown. She had dinner in the studio, or else alone at a nearby restaurant, or in her room. A book or an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and then early to bed.”

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Last week, Lorde revisited Electric Lady Studios with Vevo to film intimate versions of songs from “Melodrama” in the same room where they were written and recorded:

 

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Randy Newman’s performance Wednesday night at New York’s Electric Lady Studios will be broadcast on WFUV-FM/New York during the week of August 4, when “Dark Matter,” his first album of new material in nine years, is released.

Read Variety‘s article here.

Fleet Foxes has announced the release of their new album “Crack-Up”, produced by Robin Pecknold and bandmate Skyler Skjelset, which is out June 16th via Nonesuch Records. Much of the album was recorded here in Studio A and D. Read more about the upcoming release here or enjoy their brand new lyric video below:

Ryan Adams announced in an Instagram video that he will be hiding “golden ticket”-style vinyl recordings in box sets of his new album “Prisoner”, available for purchase February 17th. According to his website, “12 randomly selected box sets will contain a one-of-a-kind solo acoustic 7″ of one of Prisoner’s 12 tracks recorded direct-to-vinyl in the vintage Voice-O-Graph booth at Electric Lady Studios. Only one single of each song exists and only one run of the Prisoner: End of World Edition [box set] will ever be pressed.”

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This Tidal film is a rare look into J. Cole’s studio process while he was recording his LP entitled ‘4 Your Eyez Only’ in Studio A. Released December 9th, this was Cole’s fourth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Watch the documentary via Rolling Stone here.

We won’t try to say it better than The New York Times, so please check out this article on Lady Gaga’s inspiration and journey to “Joanne”,  her latest album recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studios.

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On a Tuesday night at Electric Lady, Metallica announced their 11th studio album Hardwired … to Self-Destruct.

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Recorded and mixed at Electric Lady, ‘Ash & Ice,’ by The Kills is out today on Domino Records. The album was co-produced by John O’Mahony, engineered by Phil Joly, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst. Check it out here.

Photo Credit: Mark Squires

The Kills announce new album “Ash & Ice,” and also share new video “Doing it to Death.” Produced by Jamie Hince, co-produced by John O’Mahony in Electric Lady’s Studio A, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst in Electric Lady’s Studio C. See video below:

More information about the album and tour dates @ pitchfork.com

“Sounds like a studio album but with the unbridled energy of a concert” – Rolling Stone

Read the full review here.

Photo Credit: Philip Montgomery/The NY Times/Redux

“Patti Smith releases Horses Live at Electric Lady Studios – the debut recording from Electric Lady Records, an ongoing series of curated and limited edition vinyl releases.” Read more @ Uncut

Grammy-winning, resident client and friend, Tom Elmhirst, recently sat down with Billboard at Electric Lady Studios to discuss the power of vinyl and his all-time favorite records. Read the full article here. 

Photo Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson

‘”I saw them and signed them and flew them to New York and put them in Electric Lady Studios [in 1976].” – Gene Simmons.’ Read more @ Rolling Stone Magazine 

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“Recreations of classic albums are curious things, but Patti Smith’s live performance last year of Horses, was by all accounts a spitting, powerful affair and marks the launch of the famed studios’ Electric Lady Records vinyl imprint.” – Read more @ Pitchfork

“Cry of Love,” (Track Records) was released 45 years ago, March 1971: a posthumous release composed mostly of songs he recorded in 1970 with Eddie Kramer at his new studio, Electric Lady, as sketches for what was to be his follow up to “Electric Ladyland.”

“The Cry of Love gathers the final essential recordings of one of rock’s true giants and reflects his legend at the same time it faithfully expands it” – Ultimate Classic Rock. Read full article here.

February 12, 1976: Rolling Stone reviews Patti Smith’s “Horses,” 40 years ago today.

 

Last night industry insiders and Def Jam staff came together under our roof to give a first listen to West’s highly anticipated album, “The Life of Pablo.” Check out these headbangers @ Tidal.

HBO’s “Vinyl,” created and produced by legends Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Terence Winter, and starring Bobby Cannavale and Olivia Wilde, shoots and records original music at Electric Lady Studios. Newsweek says:

“Scorsese set the tone in Vinyl’s quest for authenticity. Location manager Kip Myers used many historic buildings, shooting at the Brill Building (a renowned home to music industry), the Chelsea Hotel and Electric Lady Studios, which guitar shaman Jimi Hendrix built. Vinyl also recorded its original music there.”

Catch the premiere of Vinyl on HBO February 14 at 9pm EST.

David Bowie’s first ever no. 1 single in the US, “Fame”, was written and recorded at Electric Lady in 1975. Today, Bowie’s Blackstar has become his first ever no. 1 album (US) on the Billboard 200 chart and was mixed by Tom Elmhirst at Electric Lady in 2015. Congratulations, David, and thank you for bringing your genius to our door for both achievements.

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Cage The Elephant’s, “Tell Me I’m Pretty,” available today! Mixed by Tom Elmhirst in Studio C and produced by friend, Dan Auerbach. Check it out on iTunes.

Lucius announces new album “Good Grief,” recorded in part at Electric Lady Studios with producer Shawn Everett. Now available for preorder on iTunes.

 

Adele’s historic “25” sells 3.8 million copies in its first week, destroying the previous record for first week album sales and representing 41% of total albums sold in the U.S. last week.  Nine songs, including the hit single “Hello” were mixed by Tom Elmhirst in Electric Lady’s Studio “C”.

On November 23, Jose Cuervo celebrated the launch of their new tequila, “Reserva de la Familia’s The Rolling Stones Tour Pick Collector’s Edition” in our Studio A. The limited edition bottle honors the pivotal role Jose Cuervo played in fueling The Rolling Stones’ infamous 1972 North American tour, which was dubbed the ‘Tequila Sunrise Tour’. Legendary photographer Bob Gruen took the stage to reminisce and offer an inside look at what it was like to be on one of the most publicized tour’s of all time. To read more about the night head on over to The Examiner.

Truly brilliant and breathtaking to hear our beloved friend Patti Smith speak the words from each page while recording the audiobook version of her new book “M Train.”

Photo: Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

Banks new single, “Better,”is out now! Mixed by John O’Mahony at Electric Lady Studios.

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We love when friends come to visit. Our pal Keith dropped by the studio for an interview with Noisey to discuss growing up on guitar. Check it out below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWWMfhAvD4

Soul crooner, Leon Bridges stopped by for an interview with The Last Magazine.

Check out the full feature @ The Last Magazine 

Photo: Mark Squires for The Last Magazine

Ryan Adams announces new LP, “PRISONER,” recorded entirely at Electric Lady Studios. Read up on how the album was inspired by the Smiths and Springsteen here.

 

Metric’s new record, “Pagans in Vegas,” is available now. Co-Produced and Mixed by John O’Mahony at Electric Lady Studios.  Check it out on iTunes.

 

“Yours, Dreamily,” out TODAY. We’re very proud to have helped make this one (and on our way to the record store to buy a vinyl copy immediately). Check it out on iTunes

 

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Patti Smith performed her landmark debut album Horses for a packed Studio A in celebration of our 45th anniversary last night. Says Billboard, “…the intimate concert from the peerless rock icon was full of more life, fire and spit than practically any other show I’ve ever seen.” Read more @ Billboard.

 

“For the Record” by Liesl Schillinger on newsstands now in The Wall Street Journal. Thank you WSJ Magazine.

Electric Lady Studios and the beautiful Louise Pedersen were both featured in this month’s Marie Claire Italia, as captured by friend and photographer Nagi Sakai . Check out the full feature here.

Keith Richards premieres new album, “Cross-Eyed Heart” (Universal Republic), at Electric Lady Studios.

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“D’Angelo said, ‘We’re going to Electric Lady…it has the blessings of the spirits. We have to go there. It’s only right.’”

From 1996-2002, the Soulquarians, also known as Questlove, D’Angelo, Common, Erykah Badu, James Poyster, J. Dilla, Bilal, Q-Tip, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli, took up residence in our studios for what would prove to be a defining period in music. Read more about that magical time @ Red Bull Music Academy.

Two consecutive AOTY project wins from Electric Lady Studios–

2014: Random Access Memories

2015: Morning Phase

 

Congratulations to everyone who made 2014 another amazing year in music from Electric Lady Studios.  Huge thanks to the artists, engineers, producers and staff who make it all possible.

Behind the scenes with U2 at Electric Lady Studios for the making of their new album “Songs of Innocence.” Watch the video here:

“When your art is only limited by your imagination, that’s a wonderful moment.” – Bono

To read more: U2 Official Website

Ryan Adams brought down the house in Studio A Live Tuesday night in celebration of the release of  his new self-titled record “Ryan Adams”. His interview, like the man himself, is one we’re not likely to forget. Catch the intimate discourse on pinball and record-making today, September 12th, or look for it on the archives at WFUV.org.

See the clip from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon here…

 

Electric Lady is proud to have participated in the making of Coldplay’s sixth studio album, ‘Ghost Stories.’ Produced by Paul Epworth, tracking for portions of the album took place in Studio A and our API tracking suite during July of 2013. 

 

 

Read more about Coldplay’s fourth-in-a-row # 1 album here.

To honor a fallen friend,  “Trouble” T. Roy, and cousin, Heavy D, Pete Rock with Rich Kidd & Raz Fresco recreate the celebrated 1992 classic “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)”  in our Studio A.

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Singer-songwriter and guitarist John Mayer, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan teamed up with legends Chick Corea and Miles Davis prodigy, Wallace Roney, in Electric Lady’s Studio “A”.

To listen to track “Little Sur”::: click here.
To listen to John and Chick talk about jamming, the nature of improvisation, and what happens when you throw the rules out the door::: click here.

Congratulations to Electric Lady’s Grammy Award winning projects.