IT'S YEAR END LIST TIME!

Wow, 2011 was a truly fantastic year at The Lodge folks.

And now that we're in the middle of award and list season frenzy, we figured we'd put together our very own list of this year's highlights, nominations, awards and year end top album compilations mastered at The Lodge.  Here we go...

2011 Grammy Nominations
Album of the Year- Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Rock Album- Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Rock Song- Foo Fighters: Walk (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Rock Performance- Foo Fighters: Walk (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Hard Rock Performance- Foo Fighters: White Limo (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Long Form Video- Foo Fighters: Back and Forth


American Music Awards
Favorite Rock Artist- Foo Fighters (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


ARIA Awards
Album of the Year- Boy & Bear: Moonfire (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Breakthrough Artist- Album- Boy & Bear: Moonfire (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Breakthrough Artist- Single-  Boy & Bear: Feeding Line (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Group- Boy & Bear (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
Best Adult Alternative Album- Boy & Bear: Moonfire (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


iTunes Rewind 2011 Awards
Album of the Year- Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


Billboard 2011
39.) Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)



Pitchfork Top 50 Albums
50.) Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
46.) Cults: Cults (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
41.) Liturgy: Aesthethica (Mastered by Heba Kadry)
33.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
13.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
7.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)



Rolling Stone 50 Best of 2011
46.) White Denim: D (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
20.) Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
13.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)


Spin 50 Best of 2011
46.) Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
30.) tUnE-yArDs: whokill (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
26.) Liturgy: Aesthethica (Mastered by Heba Kadry)
21.) Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
17.) Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
3.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
1.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)



Stereogum Top 50
50.) Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
46.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
37.) Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
26.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Belong (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
25.) Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
7.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
4.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


MOJO Top 50 Albums of 2011
45.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
24.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
6.) White Denim: D (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


NME 50 best of 2011
43.) Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
40.) Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
37.) White Denim: D (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
29.) Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
24.) Big Talk: Big Talk (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
9.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)


Under the Radar's Top 50 Albums of 2011
43.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Belong (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
42.) Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
40.) Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
39.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
31.) Hooray For Earth: True Loves (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
22.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
17.) Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
6.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)


Prefix's Top Albums of 2011
36.) Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
12.) EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
6.) tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
4.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


Gorilla vs Bear Best Albums of 2011
18.) Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)
4.) White Denim: D (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)


The Quietus 50 Albums of The Year
50.) Liturgy: Aesthethica (Mastered by Heba Kadry)
45.) Skull Defekts feat. Daniel Higgs - Peer Amid (Mastered by Heba Kadry)
34.) Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta)
27.) EMA - Past Life Martyed Saints (Mastered by Sarah Register)
15.) Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years (Mastered by Joe LaPorta)

Youth Lagoon's Year of 2011!

After taking the blogosphere by storm (literally out of a bedroom!) earlier this year, indie-superman Trevor Powers has been busy spreading his hazy & intricate bedroom recordings to the world! Known as Youth Lagoon, the 22 year old from Boise, Idaho is currently finishing up his second national tour and will embark for Europe in 2012!

Youth Lagoon's new album "The Year of Hibernation" was released through Fat Possum Records on September 27th, and was mastered over the summer at The Lodge!

The album received so much praise this year it ended up on almost every year end list published this month.  Pitchfork.com placed Youth Lagoon's album on their Best New Music list and also awarded the video for lead single "Montana" a place on their 2011 edition of their Top Music Videos list!  This is an album not to be missed by any indie music fan.

Check out Youth Lagoon's award winning video for "Montana" directed by Tyler D Williams below!

Neon Trees Premiere New Single Mastered at The Lodge!

Neon Trees have just premiered their new single "Everybody Talks" on Rolling Stone magazine today.  The track was mastered at The Lodge and offers a sneak peak into their highly anticipated followup to debut album "Animals".

Produced by Justin Meldal Johnson, lead singer Tyler Glenn explains to Rolling Stone "I think this new album is darker at moments than the last one and I don’t think our first song from the album sounds like that.  I think it’s gonna be more like a soundtrack in that way, it has more of a peak and a valley and a little more dynamic to that. "

Listen to the new track and read more about Glenn's interview with Rolling Stone here

The Raveonettes Release Christmas Song & Limited Rarities Album is Ready for Pre-order!

Top row: Richard Gottehrer & Joe LaPorta.  Bottom row: Emily Lazar & Sune Rose Wagner

Indie noir/psych rockers The Raveonettes have just announced on their website today that their exclusive "Bsides & Rarities" album is ready for pre-order. The album was mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta and includes 27 previously unreleased gems.  Here's a link to their online shop.  Be sure to order now as there's only 500 vinyl and 500 CD copies up for grabs!

  
And in the holiday spirit, the band have just released a christmas song aptly titled "The Christmas Song" mastered by Joe LaPorta featuring an exclusive video:

Foo Fighters Album Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta at The Lodge Leads This Year's Grammy Nominations

The nominations for this year’s 54th Annual Grammy Awards were just announced and legendary rockers Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light" album scooped up a total of SIX nominations including: Album Of The Year, Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance for “Walk,” Best Hard Rock Performance for “White Limo” and Best Long Form Music Video for “Back and Forth.”   Butch Vig, producer for "Wasting Light,"is also nominated for Producer of The Year.

Mastered by Emily Lazar and Joe LaPorta at The Lodge earlier this year, “Wasting Light” (RCA Records/Roswell Records) charted at #1 across twelve countries marking this album as the band's first ever #1 record since their formation in 1994.  It was also certified gold immediately after it's release. 

An all-analog production, "Wasting Light" is a truly brilliant record that captures Foo Fighters at their rawest and tightest as a band.  This is thanks to Dave Grohl's insistence not to use a single computer throughout the whole record making process.  The album was tracked by James Brown using a 24 track Studer A827 and an API 1608 console in Grohl's garage and eventually mixed by Alan Moulder in the same garage!  The final mixes were transfered to 1/2" tape and mastered through an entirely analog signal chain at The Lodge.

From everyone at The Lodge, we wish to send our most heartfelt congratulations to Foo Fighters, producer Butch Vig and engineers Alan Moulder and James Brown. We are all extremely excited about this nomination, not only is it a milestone for rock music but it's also a great achievement for women in audio as Emily Lazar is the first female mastering engineer to be nominated in the Album Of The Year category.

And if you haven't seen it, here's Foo Fighters' video for “Walk” nominated for Best Rock Song.