Jonathan Meiburg is busy person. He’s an author and musician who has written for Tape Op, and who we interviewed in issue #148 on his work with his group Loma. Meiburg is also the principal songwriter in Shearwater along with Emily Lee and Dan Duszynski. Dan is also in Loma, and they have a new LP, The New World, out July 31st.

Much of the album reflects Jonathan’s experiences on an ocean voyage to Antarctica aboard Expedition PS152 in December of...

Laura Veirs has a new LP, Temple Songs, coming out August 14th. Here's a video on the making of the album, the first she has recorded on her own.

Here's a video for the song "Pulse" for a taste of the awesome songs and sounds.

And look for an interview with her in Tape Op soon!

Check out the new song, “1+1=0”, and fun video from South Korean artist Kim Jimin, who records as Meaningful Stone. The track is a collaboration with producer Melina Duterte, aka Jay Som, and the video is a fun peek at Kim’s trip to Los Angeles and a behind the scenes look at Melina’s home studio setup. 

The song is a catchy, dreamy, pop song with chiming guitars and a great shuffle beat. 

Look for a full interview with Melina in a fall issue...

Nashville based artist Hannah Cole has a new LP, Switchbacks, out September 4th, and has just released the track “MMA”, and the video to go along with it. The track has loud drums, and noisy, sludgy guitars, with Cole’s catchy vocals on top of it all. Hannah and her producer and engineering collaborator, Josef Kuhn, played almost all the instruments on the record and recorded it in their home studio. 

Sonny DiPerri [Tape Op#129] (who has been...

Andrew Sa, in and of himself, is an interesting artist, his talents shaped by his childhood performances at his mother’s karaoke joint then honed through relationships forged in the Chicago music scene as a young adult, all culminating in his debut full-length album American Rough due out June 26th on Bloodshot Records. Add to this that said album incorporates the influences of Mount Moriah alum and revered singer-songwriter H.C. McEntire as well as...

If I was forced to write four word review of Jack White's new album, Frozen Charlotte, it would go like this: Heavy, grooving, fuzzy, classic.

Jack White [Tape Op#82] has a knack for keeping music simple and boiled down to the basics. Heavy riffs, fat grooves, headbanging tempos, and great tones. Frozen Charlotte delivers all of the above from start to finish. It sounds like just what it is; a tight band captured live. There are wisps of The...

We interviewed Bryce Gonzales in Tape Op#165 and did a deep dive into his technique and handmade tube gear he was using to record live jazz records to 1/4” stereo tape at the Los Angeles, CA venue ETA. 

ETA has sadly shuttered but Bryce has continued to record jazz artists around LA with his trusty stereo Nagra tape machine and custom one-of-a-kind tube mixer. 

In May, the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet released Happy Today that Bryce recorded at the...

We interviewed Emily A. Sprague in Tape Op#171 and her 2025 LP Cloud Time landed on our year end best of list more than once. If you’ve been following Emily’s music then you probably already know that she is the primary songwriter and vocalist for the band Florist, and that she also releases ambient instrumental music under her own name. Now with her new LP, Cyano, due out October 2nd, she is singing on ambient adjacent tracks for the first...

We interviewed British psychedelic rock band Temples back in issue #107. Their 2014 release, Sun Structures, stayed in the CD player for months, and I have followed them loosely since. The band's new album, Bliss, takes a turn towards the dance realm, and leans more heavily on synths than guitars for the bulk of the production. It still feels very much like a Temples record, and it's good to see them exploring new sonics and production...

We’re hard at work here at Tape Op HQ on our July issue, which features an interview with super busy producer Kenny Blume, but it’s going to be a few more weeks, so in the meantime, here are a few recently released tracks that Kenny has been working on:

Fathers is a new collective that, in addition to Kenny, features Kiefer on keyboards, CARRTOONS on bass, and Nate Smith (Tape Op# 143) on drums. The project apparently came about as Kenny was finishing...

In recent months, I did a bunch of mixing, including: An album for a hypnotic electronic duo, songs for a psychedelic band from Mexico, tracks for a local queer country singer, and a full record for a catchy punk band from Toronto. I was lucky to produce/engineer/mix a song for a kick-ass group described as "hardcore-adjacent" that have been on tour all over the U.S. I spent a day producing a song with a loveable artist with Down syndrome....

In 2026, Fela Kuti became the first African artist ever awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys, something that I formally proposed in 2020 but took over five years to be realized. Fela took his rightful place alongside such giants as Frank Sinatra, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Beatles, Cher, Bob Marley, Chaka Khan, Jimi Hendrix, Emmylou Harris, and John Coltrane, after never having been nominated for a Grammy during his lifetime. In his...