At OMG Studios, a high-end digital recording and production space that opened this month in Vandalia Tower, owner Monique Linder is working to open the door for the next generation of local musicians.

The New Jersey recording space built in 1959 by Rudy Van Gelder is filled with history. Can it regain its glory without getting stuck in the past? The percussion recording room in Rudy Van Gelder’s ...

Musician Keith Urban discovered The Tracking Room recording studio was on the fast track to be torn down. So he stepped in ...

About 80 years ago, guitarist and inventor Les Paul built a home recording studio in his Hollywood garage on North Curson Avenue and began developing his “new sound,” which incorporated cutting-edge ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #10 of Paste Magazine in June/July of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. The greatest albums and singles don’t drop from the sky to ...