Matt Hurwitz

“If we went through three takes and didn’t get it, we would just stop and go down to the pub for a beer, and then come back and try it again.”

By Matt Hurwitz. Legendary producer Glyn Johns shares how The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” came together and became a classic rock staple.

By Matt Hurwitz. Folk singer Al Stewart reinvented his sound when he met producer Alan Parsons, resulting in the classic “Year of the Cat.”

By Matt Hurwitz. Linda Ronstadt, producer Peter Asher, engineer Val Garay and more recall the rollercoaster process of recording her first hit

In late 1974, Raspberries were still in full gear as one of power pop’s biggest bands. But the Cleveland-based group’s front man, Eric Carmen, was already composing what would be the first megahit of his solo career, which began perhaps sooner than expected with the group’s demise the following year…

Out in the Country with ‘Cass County’

Glen Campbell’s Number One Hit, 40 Years Ago This Month

Multi-Instrumentalist Composer Builds Dead-Quiet Space

Jazz saxophonist Dave Koz stands beside the console, listening to a mix in Rickey Minor’s new Red Lotus Studios on the historic Sunset Gower Studios lot in Hollywood. The pair, along with engineer Allen Sides, cut six songs in one day, two weeks prior, and five more the following Monday, for Koz’s new Christmas album. […]

The Hollywood Bowl, that iconic Los Angeles venue so named for the landscape it occupies, not the shell covering its stage, hosted its first classical music concerts in 1922. At the time of its opening, the venue’s natural acoustics were considered perfect as is. The trademark shell, with concentric staggered rings of reflective material, first appeared in 1928 to help boost the natural sound. Amplification arrived eight years later, with a system driven by 500-watt amplifiers from Bell Laborato…