If you’re a member of The North Decade you had better be willing to sing. Our evening with the band at Dark Egg Studio is dedicated to tracking backing vocals, one of the last tasks left before producer Jonathan James goes into a month’s worth of mixing and mastering on What You’d Give Up Tomorrow You’ll Pay For Today.* All four members...

It’s almost 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night at Wired Woods Studio. The bass is finally set up, the paling-around jokes are in full swing and the window of opportunity is closing. For Trent Wilson, founder and braintrust of local instrumental surf-meets-Morricone group The BoogeyMen, it has already been a 15-hour day, and the next isn’t likely to be any...

Local post-grunge (*slash) alternative rockers, Golden Giant plan to hit Dark Egg Studio this weekend to record their upcoming album. They currently have 14 songs they’re planning to record with engineer Nathan Wall. This may be one of the first Springfield rock bands in some time to not only actively gig as a band with no vocals but to move forward with...

The self-told and self-made documentary of how hometown favorites, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin recorded their upcoming album, Let It Sway.

Two decades into his career as a musician, HeartPunch‘s Yankton Sothern is learning to sing to the ladies. Going through vocals line by line during a long day of recording at The Studio on South Avenue, Studio owner and engineer Lou Whitney is coaching Sothern carefully but deliberately. “Let go of the gravel (in your voice) and get the tone...