Sep 30

Sure, MPMF is over, but here at The Party, we’re just starting to realize how great a weekend we had.

ANP partners/artists, The Sundresses, and their soon-to-be label mates, mallory, kicked the door down on Friday.  Rather than sing our own praises, check out what Brian Baker had to say about Themdresses.  We’ll just note how great it is that this light’s finally dawning.

He was still talking about them at the opening of his next column, MPMF: Saturday Night’s All Fight for Writing.  But ANPfolk continued to make headlines personally.  First, there’s a great picture of All Night Intern Ryann Walton, and a lot of love for her band (though I wish ANP were running their merch, so we could have sold that CD to Brian! Hey Brian: Call us and we’ll hook you up!).

Brian also burned some pixels on our clients, Sparrow Bellows, whose record partner John Curley recorded, and Dave Davis mastered.  Wussy is another ANP client-done-good: all of their records have been recorded or mastered by ANP partners (talk about luck! We’re pretty lucky to have clients in their league).

The same week, Mike Breen pointed fans to videos by The Sundresses, and our friends/clients, The Lions Rampant (who we’re working hard with to release a killer album from which this video came).

It’s been a great week for ANP.  Big thanks to our showcase bands, mallory, Scotty Lust and The Two Timers, Magic Shop and The Sundresses. And even bigger thanks to the fans, press and volunteers who helped us launch this ship.  We’re nothing without all of you.

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Mar 11

CityBeat Feature on Play It Forward

One of the coolest charity projects I’ve been involved with in a long time was mastering this new 2 CD set for Cincinnati’s new music support group Play It Forward.  Play It Forward was founded by former WLW host Gary Burbank (who happens to be a very talented drummer, originally doing sessions in Memphis!), and is working to raise an endowment to create a sustainable fund to help needy musicians cover health care costs.

That would be reason enough to support the record (and the show,  Thursday 3/12/2009 at The Madison Theater) but the 30 track disc is pretty interesting too: With a diverse range of artists, genres and tempos it represents our community well.  I was pretty honored for the opportunity to work on it, and I hope the mastering does the performances justice!

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