Sound City: Real to Reel at THE LODGE!

Dave Grohl's debut film Sound City: Real to Reel has garnered major accolades and even Oscar whispers around the globe. The soundtrack for this amazing rockumentary, which includes the first ever reunion of the remaining members of Nirvana joined by Paul McCartney, was mastered by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar, and her team at THE LODGE. 

The film conceived by Grohl features interviews and performances from famous musicians and producers who recorded some of rock’s greatest albums on the Neve 8028 and in the magical space of Sound City Studios located in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles, California during its 42 year history from 1969- 2011.

Instead of reminiscing about yet another monumental studio biting the dust, Grohl in his usual upbeat Renaissance man fashion decided to celebrate the studio's amazing history and give the legendary Sound City Studios the proper credit it deserves. The iconic albums that were recorded at Sound City will make your head spin including Nirvana's "Nevermind", Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", Neil Young’s "After The Gold Rush", Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' "Damn The Torpedoes", Rage Against The Machine's "Rage Against The Machine" and Cheap Trick's "Heaven Tonight" the list goes on and on.

Grohl tracked down and joined forces with the famous artists that walked through Sound City’s doors to discuss the studio's legacy and collaborate on an all-star studded compilation album. Released on Roswell Records Sound City: Real to Reel is a brand new collection of all-original songs, each one composed and recorded exclusively for the film soundtrack on the Neve 8028 after it was reinstalled in Grohl’s Studio 606. The new mega jam-packed compilation album—produced by Butch Vig, mixed by James Brown and Chris Lord-Alge features some serious heavy hitters and totally amazing collaborations between Grohl and Stevie Nicks, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Rick Springfield, Joshua Homme, Rick Nielsen, Lee Ving, Corey Taylor, Brad Wilk, Tim Commerford, Jessy Greene, Jim Keltner, Alain Johannes, Chris Goss, Rick Nielson, Scott Reeder, Nate Mendel, Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and Trent Reznor. The story of Sound City will inspire generations to come as we move forward further into the era of digital recording. Good timeless music never dies though, you can purchase a vinyl copy of Sound City: Real to Reel at Amazon or download to-go at iTunes.

Here's a picture of the reel on The Lodge's ATR Tape Machine!

          

Go see Sound City on the big screen in all of its holy rockness!!

 Purchase tickets for you local Theatre or download here.

The Lodge wins at the TEC Awards

The Lodge was nominated and won for Best Record Production/Album in the Outstanding Creative Achievement Category for The Foo Fighters "Wasting Light" album at the annual TEC awards. Held at NAMM in Anaheim, California the TEC awards honor the best in the past year's groundbreaking audio production tools, sound engineers, editors, producers and audio professionals in the recording, film and sound industry. The Lodge is overjoyed to be a part of the team along with James Brown and Butch Vig and we congratulate The Foo Fighters for all the success that "Wasting Light" has inspired and accomplished.

28th Annual TEC Awards for Outstanding Creative Achievement

Garbage New Album Mastered by The Lodge

It's been 7 years since Garbage released their last studio album and the wait is finally over! Our favorite 90's alt rockers have finally released their first album since 2005 yesterday, and it's already scorching up the charts. The album just hit the #1 spot on iTunes' Alternative Rock Albums as well as the #5 spot on  the UK charts!!

"Not Your Kind Of People" was produced by Garbage drummer/legendary Grammy nominated producer Butch Vig (Foo Fighters, Green Day, Nirvana) and mixed by Billy Bush.  The album was mastered by our very own Emily Lazar and her team at The Lodge.


Head over to http://www.garbage.com to buy the album and watch their first video for the single "Blood For Poppies" below.

Garbage Master First Release In 7 Years With The Lodge

After a 7 year hiatus, 90's alt rockers Garbage are set to release their first studio album since 2005 titled "Not Your Kind of People" on May 15th, 2012. Garbage drummer/legendary Grammy nominated producer Butch Vig (Foo Fighters, Green Day, Nirvana) produced the album with the band and mixed it with Billy Bush.  The album was mastered by Emily Lazar and her team at The Lodge!

In an interview with Rolling Stone in October, Butch Vig explained, "We got together with no agenda other than to just jam a little bit, f--- around and see what we came up with, and it was inspiring. I think you can hear some energy and a vibe in the tracks that sounds refreshing, a little bit more to me like the first two records."

Garbage launched their own record label STUNVOLUME in anticipation of the release and plan on a massive tour featuring dates across North America and Europe. The band just released a video for their first single "Blood for Poppies" which you can watch below. Enjoy!





You can also watch a great video of the band discussing their long awaited return to the music scene featuring some great album snippets!

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.

Foo Fighters Top Billboard Charts in 12 Countries!

The Lodge crew is celebrating yet another #1 record as Foo Fighters' latest, "Wasting Light," clocked in at #1 on the US Billboard Top 100 Albums chart this week!  The album, mastered by Emily Lazar and Joe LaPorta, is now #1 in 12 countries!

In their nearly two decades as a band, "Wasting Light" is, surprisingly, the first Foo Fighters album to ever reach #1! The Lodge is incredibly excited to share this moment with the band as well as with our old friends, producer-extraordinaire Butch Vig (Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), engineer James Brown (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Nine Inch Nails) and mix engineer Alan Moulder (Against Me!, The Killers). Last week, "Wasting Light" sold 235,000 copies-- toppling sales for Adele's popular album "21"-- and the first single from the album "Rope," is going on it's sixth week at #1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

Check out Foo's video for "Rope" on their website here and if you haven't already picked up a copy of "Wasting Light," go get it now! This is an album you don't want to miss out on!

The Lodge's Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta Master "Massive" New Foo Fighters Album!

(Pictured from left to right): Top Row: Joe LaPorta, Butch Vig, Pat Smear, James Brown, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins. Bottom Row: Nate Mendel, Emily Lazar, Dave Grohl.

2011 is here and the champagne is still flowing as The Foo Fighters toast the completion of their 7th studio album at The Lodge.  The band attended the session with legendary producer Butch Vig & engineer James Brown.

Co-mastered by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta, the new album is heralded as their heaviest album to date.  It also marks Grohl and Vig's first reunion since Nirvana's "Nevermind" in 1991.  Recorded & mixed entirely to analog tape, the album features guest appearances by Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü and reunites Grohl with the remaining Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear. In an interview with MTV news posted online yesterday, Dave Grohl explained, "There's 11 songs and, front to back, there's not one sleepy ballad. The fact that we did it without any computers, it was just really simple. It just sounds massive."

Dave Grohl tweeted & revealed to his fans a 10 sec video snippet of the track "White Limo" (click here)-- and check out The Lodge's oscilloscope rockin' out to the onslaught!

NME, Billboard and Spin magazines also posted articles announcing the completion of the album.

Against Me! Masters "White Crosses" at The Lodge

Gainesville's Against Me! has returned to The Lodge to master their second major label record, "White Crosses" (Sire), with Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta. The latest project, produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage), will be released on June 7th and 8th this summer .

Against Me!, which started off with just Tom Gabel and an acoustic guitar, has evolved over the past thirteen years through different permutations of band members and record labels to become the internationally-loved punk rockers they are today. The band currently consists of front man and guitarist, Tom Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward, and drummer George Rebello and has found a home at Sire Records.

For the latest, "White Crosses," the band has returned to Nevermind producer, and the man responsible for their 2007, "New Wave," Butch Vig. Aside from his production fame, Vig is also known for his work as drummer of the Post-Grunge, alternative rock group Garbage, whose 2005 Bleed Like Me and 2007 Absolute Garbage were mastered at The Lodge.

As a preview to "White Crosses," Against Me! has already released a video for "Rapid Decompression" and as well as an EP, "I Was A Teenage Anarchist," featuring two songs from the album and two bonus b-side tracks. The band begins their summer tour of North America in Orlando, Florida on June 15th, so be sure to check them out!

Check out their new video for "Rapid Decompression" off of "White Crosses":

Tom Gabel of Against Me! Gets Political...

Lead singer and guitarist Tom Gabel of awesome punk rock band Against Me! will be releasing a solo EP titled "Heart Burns" on October 28th, 2008 (Sire Records).
Gabel re-teamed with Butch Vig & Billy Bush in late summer 2008 to track and mix the politically charged album. It is currently being mastered by Emily Lazar and Joe LaPorta at The Lodge.

Be sure to check out Tom's extremely insightful blog "I Feel Sick To My Stomach" about band tour life mayhem and interesting view points on the world around him.

The Subways bring “All Or Nothing” to The Lodge

Acclaimed British rock trio, The Subways (Warner Music) are due to release their highly anticipated second album All Or Nothing in June 2008. The album was mastered at The Lodge by Chief Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar and Mastering Engineer Joe LaPorta.

Hailing from Wewlyn Garden City, The Subways are Billy Lunn, Charlotte Cooper and Josh Morgan. The band started out in their teens covering Nirvana songs and sound found themselves rusing to sudden fame after winning a Glastonbury talent contest in 2004. The following year, the young group released their debut Young For Eternity, which climbed to #32 in the UK charts.

The band worked with legendary producer Butch Vig, and are planning a major US tour in the spring of 2008

Check out their latest video of the first single "Alright" off the album.