Firebrand Recording

brought some fun toys to their session last week.

We should really post the cool stuff we’re doing more often…

It’s tough to believe it’s been over a year working in this room already!.

It took almost 20 years, but we finally have stickers! We’ll have these kicking around the studio if anyone wants one. Thanks to for doing a great job on these.

Back at it.

Drums are sounding nice in the new space!

Do I know anyone with a Moog Voyager?

New Nikki Glaser out today! Recorded at Firebrand Recording with Dan Monahan at the helm. HBO special out tomorrow!

I wrote a song for my HBO special. Go listen to it wherever you stream music. Someday you’ll die.

Firebrand wouldn’t exist without Steve Albini. It was hearing Pixies’ Surfer Rosa that got me thinking about recording for the first time. It sounded different than a lot of records I’d heard and it occurred to me for the first time that someone somewhere was making decisions about mysterious things I didn’t yet understand that made it sound that way. The Breeders Pod has the same thing going on as did records by the Jesus Lizard. Fast forward to Nirvana’s In Utero and there it was again. This time there were credits in the liner notes, so I was finally able to put together the common denominator. That realization put me on the path to figure out what Steve did differently that I liked so much. I’ve learned a lot about that process over the years. I was lucky to see his band play something like fifteen times, visit his studio twice, and briefly chat with him a few times. His impact on me was great and I’m not the only one by a long shot. 📷: