Alan Parsons Interview by Beholder Media You started producing at 19. How did that come about? It really semts from my passion for music and passion for technology. I actually began engineering at 19, and I didn’t actually produce until I was into my twenties. So you did you have an internship or something like that? Well, it wasn’t classified as an internship, that’s the way Abbey Road engineers trained. They just went...

  Formed as a side project back in 2004 by four members of a Sacramento hardcore punk outfit called Will Haven, the Abominable Iron Sloth now return with The Id Will Overcome, the anticipated follow up to their self-titled debut. Fans of Will Haven will immediately feel right at home with lead vocalist Justin Godffrey, who has a very similar vocal style to that of Haven’s Grady Avenell, However, since Iron Sloth is a doom-metal...

Don’t call it a comeback: the Wu never really went away. Regardless of demand, members of the legendary rap outfit have been consitently releasing music since their classic debut in 1993. Ever since last year, when Raekwon released the much celebrated follow up to his classic Only Built for Cuban Linx (the cleverly titled Only Built for Cuban Linx II) it signaled a sort of rebirth for the group, and subsequent releases by individual...

Gorillaz – Plastic Beach by Reuben Sorrells A well known yet unspoken adage of the music business is ‘With great success comes great experimentation.’ Or at least that would seem to be the case in 2010 more than ever, where we’ve already seen a couple high-profile pop stars tinker with proven formulas. On the heels of Lil’ Wayne’s baffling rock album Rebirth comes Gorillaz latest (and more artistically...

Lil Wayne – Rebirth by Reuben Sorrells Last year, Lil Wayne’s No Ceilings mixtape, in which he took ownership of 2009 hits such as “Run this Town” and “Throw it in the Bag” away from his contemporaries, was highly regarded by critics and fans for its complete lack of auto-tune as much as its clever punchlines and obtuse metaphors. Wayne’s newest release, as well as his first studio recording...