Post Mortem: Recording The Swagger Sticks First CD

Recording The Swagger Sticks record was an incredible learning experience. Writing some of the songs came pretty quickly while a couple of the lyrics took over a year of endless drafting before I was happy with them.
The part that took the longest was mixing i.e. the process of getting all the levels just right, editing [...]

The Swagger Sticks: Studio Session Sneak Peak

I had a studio session over at Moonlight Studios this past Monday night and I worked on some demo tracks for my band, the The Swagger Sticks. We’re an Indie Rock band and we’re releasing our own EP sometime in March. We added a bunch of vocal tracks, mixed the drums, guitars etc. and had a very productive studio session – Jeff Lewis, our engineer/producer is just [...]

Touch Me I’m Sick

I was supposed to go into the studio last night to finish mixing a few of my songs for The Swagger Sticks debut but I had to cancel ’cause I’m sick! I did, however, find the strength to play along to The Who’s ”Pinball Wizard/See Me, Feel Me” medley on guitar this morning but that was about it.
In the meantime, here’s a little Mudhoney for [...]

The Swagger Sticks “Mix It Up”

Here’s a quick studio update from The Swagger Sticks regarding our debut EP, “Stick it!” which is scheduled for release March 1st:
Today I spoke with my producer/engineer, Jeff Lewis. I’ll be back at Moonlight Studios Monday, January 12th, to polish up some vocal tracks and finish mixing the three songs we tracked drums for last week: “CCTV”, “Here Comes The Cougar” and [...]