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Music Industry

Renowned Music Journalist Barry Cleveland Launches The Lodge

Source: Barry Cleveland
December 2, 2015

Veteran music journalist and former Guitar Player magazine editor Barry Cleveland has launched The Lodge, a new online music publication featuring in-depth interviews with some of today’s most forward-thinking artists, music reviews, videos, and geeky recording tips and techniques. Cleveland reviews new releases by John McLaughlin, Ben Monder, Sonar, Orion Tango, and Kevin Kastning in his latest post, all of which include audio examples. Cleveland’s debut feature interview is with iconoclastic guitarists Mark Wingfield and Kevin Kastning. who discuss their ...

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Book / Magazine

Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques — New Video And V3 E-book Unveiled

Source: Barry Cleveland
August 27, 2015

“When I began researching my book I had no idea that Joe Meek’s recording concepts and techniques had basically turned the ’50s and ’60s British studio world upside down,” says Barry Cleveland, author of Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques. “Many of the things Meek did were revolutionary—and often considered wrong—at the time, but have now been so thoroughly integrated into everyday practice that they are taken for granted.” This new video provides an overview: Joe Meek’s best-known recording, “Telstar,” topped the ...

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Book / Magazine

"Joe Meek's Bold Techniques” Details The Iconoclastic British Producer’s Recording Secrets

Source: Barry Cleveland
April 25, 2014

Veteran music journalist Barry Cleveland (currently an editor at Guitar Player magazine) has published v.2 of the eBook Second Edition of his now cult classic, Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques. The eBook is available via Apple iTunes, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble for $9.99. Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear ...

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Recording

Barry Cleveland Reissues Critically Acclaimed 1986 "Mythos" Album

Source: Barry Cleveland
December 3, 2012

Originally released on Larry “Synergy" Fast's legendary Audion Recording Company label in 1986, Mythos combined Barry Cleveland's processed, layered, and looped guitars with Michael Masley's otherworldly bowhammer cymbalom, and Bob Stohl and Kat Epple's woodwinds, synths, and light percussion. “Mythos was, and remains, a great album." —Larry Fast The 2012 reissue of Mythos makes the entire album available for the first time since its original release. It was digitally remastered using state-of-the-art tools to restore and enhance the clarity and ...

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Book / Magazine

Barry Cleveland Publishes eBook Second Edition of Cult Classic Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques

Source: Barry Cleveland
December 14, 2011

Veteran music journalist Barry Cleveland (currently an editor at Guitar Player magazine) has published the Second Edition of his now cult classic—Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques—as an eBook, available via Apple iBooks, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble for $4.99. Joe Meek's Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World. Joe Meek ...

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Video / DVD

Barry Cleveland Assails Wing Nuts With "Warning" Video Starring The Artist General

Source: Barry Cleveland
September 15, 2011

Barry Cleveland's video accompaniment to his avant-metal protest song “Warning," from the critically acclaimed Hologramatron album on MoonJune Records, facilitates a full-frontal assault on the Corporate Media ("Truth is willing but the press is weak"), Big Oil ("Oilygarchs"), the Military Industrial Complex ("Chickenhawk multi-millionaires"), Climate Change deniers ("The North Pole has melted”), and self-righteous hypocrites of all stripes—before soaring into metaphysical exegesis ("That's just how it is, that's how it works: the Universe is HUGE!"). “The Artist General improvised his ...

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Award / Grant

Barry Cleveland's "Hologramatron" Submitted For “Best Alternative Music Album” Grammy Award

Source: Barry Cleveland
September 13, 2010

New York, N.Y.—Barry Cleveland's critically acclaimed Hologramatron has been submitted for the Grammy Award for “Best Alternative Music Album." Hologramatron is a 21st Century protest record with songs featuring biting, sometimes brutal, commentary on the state of the Western world. It's a musical response to contemporary social, political, and even spiritual realities. The disc draws inspiration from a musical continuum spanning art rock, psychedelia, metal, ambient, world music, trance, and funk. The cast of players joining Cleveland comprises some of ...

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