News Archive 2003

Year End Wrap-up at Dubway

2003 has been an amazing and exciting year for Dubway Studios. The variety and volume of work that Dubway has produced is astounding. The work keeps coming in month after month with no signs of slowing. Over the last year Dubway has had the pleasure of working with HBO Films, Angelo Badalamenti, composer Evan Lurie, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, VH1/MTV Networks, Amy Rigby, Sandra Bernhard, Patty Austin, Kyle Fischer, Joseph Arthur, Will Lee, Richard Barone, Jason Miles, Anton Fig, Nickelodeon, They Might Be Giants, Lach, Bonfire Films, Plexi Films, Phoebe Snow, Rob Burger, Counting Crows, Puddle Of Mudd, Melissa Etheridge, Barenaked Ladies, Anthony Hamilton, Joss Stone, Leona Naess, Something Corporate, blues/Jazz legend Odetta Gordon, The Drakes, Ben Arthur, Punk band Stupid, The Sharp Things, and the extremely loud Zero 2 None. Whew! It's been a great year and we have enjoyed working with all of you!

12.16.03

This week Dubway Studios went on location to record live performances by Melissa Etheridge and Bare Naked Ladies for VH1. Dubway engineers Jason Marcucci and Mike Presta recorded the taping.

Melissa Etheridge Bare Naked Ladies

11.19.03

The legendary Odetta Gordon graced Dubway Studios this week. The Grammy winning Ms. Gordon just returned from Washington DC where she a accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress in honor of her outstanding singing career. Ms. Gordon, who has an impressive back-catalogue of work on Vanguard Records is working on a new project.

Odetta Gordon with Dubway Studios engineer Jason Marcucci Dropping in for a picture: Bob Reid, Odetta Gordon, Dubway Studios owner Al Houghton, John Berenzy, and Dubway Studios manager Steven Alvarado

11.14.03

This week Dubway Studios sent engineers Jason Marcucci and Mike Presta to record live performances by Counting Crows, Puddle of Mudd, and Joss Stone for the next two segments of VH1's new music show. The groups are currently promoting their new albums. You can check them out at VH1.com. Dubway is also still very busy doing post-production for the Nick Jr. kids television show "The Backyardigans." In the middle of all the activity, we are working on five different album projects! Ben Arthur's debut on Bardic Records, being mixed by Mike Shipley, Johnny Rodger's debut, being produced by Richard Barone and mixed by Al Houghton, the new The Sharp Things album is just underway and being recorded and mixed by Al Houghton, The Deer Park is also just underway being recorded and mixed by Mike Presta, and John Berenzy and Bob Reid's project being recorded by Al Houghton.

The Counting Crows Puddle of Mudd Joss Stone

11.5.03

This week has seen the return of jazz singer Johnny Rodgers and producer Richard Barone who are working on Rodger's debut album. This time they've brought in singers Lina Koutrakos and Margaret Dorn to lay down some backing vocals.

Pictured from left to right: Lina Koutrakos, Johnny Rodgers and Margaret Dorn.

10.24.03

In an ongoing project with VH1, Dubway engineers, Jason Marcucci and Mike Presta went on location to record the live taping of singer songwriter Anthony Hamilton and the band Something Corporate both of whom are on tour promoting their latest albums.

Anthony Hamilton Something Corporate

10.2.03

This month Dubway has seen the talented singer songwriter Ben Arthur recording tracks with Mike Crehore, Al Houghton and Jason Marcucci for his upcoming debut album to be mixed by Mike Shippley and released on Bardic records.

Pictured from left to right: Ben Arthur, Al Houghton and DJ Big Wizz

Richard Barone is becoming a regular around Dubway these days. Barone is currently producing jazz singer Johnny Rodgers' debut album. Barone brought in the legendary Randy Brecker to add his signature trumpet sound to the session.

Pictured from left to right: Richard Barone, Johnny Rodgers and Randy Brecker.

Dubway engineers, Jason Marcucci and Mike Presta went on location to VH1 to record singer songwriter Leona Naess for a VH1 internet broadcast.

Dubway's Yellow Room saw multitalented singer/songwriter and producer Tracy Stark recording songs for her upcoming album with producer Richard Barone (Amy Rigby, The Bongos). Tracy was joined by Clint De Ganon on drums, Peter Calo on guitar and Wayne Pedzwater on bass guitar. Dubway owner Al Houghton engineered the session. When not writing her own music Tracy writes and produces music for various Broadway shows.

Pictured from left to right: Peter Calo, Clint De Ganon, Wayne Pedzwater, Richard Barone, Dubway owner Al Houghton, and Tracy Stark seated at the piano.

NYC based singer, actor and comedian Hector Coris worked in Dubway's Yellow room recording songs from his latest all original cabaret style revue entitled "Not Me". Pianist/musical director Paul Johnson and singers Tripp Pettigrew and Mickey Toogood, who perform and sing in the revue, accompanied Hector during the recording and Dubway's Mike Presta engineered the session. "Not Me" enjoyed a 2 month run with performances happening weekly in September and October at Rose's Turn in lower New York City.

Pictured from left to right: Dubway engineer Mike Presta, Tripp Pettigrew, Mickey Toogood, Paul Johnson and Hector Coris.

9.17.03

The folks from Nickelodeon are back at Dubway once again with music Producer Evan Lurie. Lurie wrote and is producing all of the music for The Backyardigans, a Nick Jr. television show for kids, which will air later this year. Dubway's own Mike Crehore is engineering the project and Jason Marcucci is handling the voice over portion of the work.	Evan Lurie conducting The Backyardigans Orchestra.

Richard Barone finished producing the new album by Lach this Saturday. The album is on it's way to the mastering lab and Lach plans to release it later this year. Barones next project is singer-songwriter Tracy Stark, followed by Randy Brecker of The Brecker Brothers. Both projects will be done here at Dubway.

8.22.03

They Might Be Giants reunited with Dubway Studios Owner Al Houghton to do audio post for the DVD version of the documentary film Gigantic, A Tale Of Two Johns on Bonfire Films which follows the bands lively career. Houghton first worked with the band back in the 1980's when he recorded their first two albums. Pictured from left to right: Pictured from left to right:, John Flansburh of TMBG, Dubway Studio's manager Steven Alvarado, Dubway Studio's owner Al Houghton, John Linnel of TMBG, AJ Schnack Gigantic director, Sarah Vowell, Matt Grady and an intern of Plexifilms.

Pictured from left to right: Sarah Vowell, John Flansburg, John Linnel and AJ Schnack.

8.8.03

Recording star Phoebe Snow was in Dubway's Yellow Room with producer Rick Chudacoff recording a song for a new tribute album to honor the career of Japanese recording artist Mayo Okamoto. Mike Crehore engineered the project.

Pictured from left to right: Mike Crehore, Phoebe Snow, Rick Chudacoff and Shoko Watanbe.

The very loud, Zero 2 None recorded several new songs at Dubway recently. The group, well known in the New York City club scene came back to the studio for a second time to add new music to their demo project. This time around Dubway's Jason Marcucci engineered the session.

Singer songwriter Vered recorded basic tracks for an upcoming release with producer Mike Davis at Dubway. Dubway's own Andy Gerard engineered.

Pictured from left to right: Vered Ronen, Mike Davis, Andy Gerard and Tim Vaill

Anti Folk artist Lach continued work on his new album with producer Richard Barone. The two were in Dubway's Yellow Room adding overdubs with Al Houghton engineering. The album is due out in late summer.

Pictured from left to right: Richard Barone & Lach.

7.25.03

Anit-Folk artist Lach is currently recording his latest album with the highly acclaimed Richard Barone producing. Lach owns and runs the well known indie label Fortified and is credited for starting the Anti-Folk scene. This is his third album with Richard Barone.

Pictured from left to right: Al Houghton, Lach, Richard Barone.

Dubways Green Room saw San Francisco based recording artist Peter Scott recently. Scott came to New York to work with famed antiquated keyboardist Rob Burger. Burger, known for his work with his band Tin Hat Trio, John Zorn and Norah Jones, played his vintage Orchestron organ on Scott's forthcoming album.

Pictured from left to right: Mike Presta, Rob Burger and Peter Scott.

7.11.03

Michale Locatelli was recently in recording drum tracks with Tommaso Cappellato, enigineers Juan Pablo and Mike Presta for his record label Oblique Sound.

Pictured from left to right: Tommaso Cappellato, Michale Locatelli, Jaun Pablo and Dubway Engineer Mike Presta.

A jazz ensemble featuring Marya Zimmet, Mike Esterowitz, Bill Pearlstein and Paul Pricer were in the yellow room laying down tracks with Dubway engineer Jason Marcucci for their demo of jazz standards.

Pictured from left to right: Paul Pricer, Marya Zimmet, Jason Marcucci, Bill Pearlstein and Mike Esterowitz.

7.7.03

The Warrior Poetes who've been touring relentlessly have been recording lots of new songs in Dubway's Green Room with engineer Mike Presta.

Pictured from left to right: Allicia, Arianna and Marissa Ill and Dubway Engineer Mike Presta.

6.20.03

Legendary singer Melba Joyce who's worked with such names as Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Olu Dara, Cat Stevens and Tower of Power was in our green room editing tracks for her upcoming release.

Pictured from left to right: Dubway Engineer Mike Presta, Melba Joyce, and studio manager Steven Alvarado.

6.6.03

The past two weeks have seen the continuation of tracking, mixing and editing for the upcoming Nickelodeon kids show, "Whoopi's Littleberg" starring Whoopi Goldberg. This time around producers John Platania and Michael Pillot brought in Dr. John to play piano and record voice narration as his character in the show.
Pictured from left to right: Dubway Owner/Engineer Mike Crehore, John Platania, Dr. John and Michael Pillot.	Shoko Watanabe and Dr. John

Producer Elie Massias brought in Patrick Goraguer and Nicolas Thys to record tracks with Dubway engineer Mike Presta for an upcoming release.

Producer Thor Madsen was in with Singer/Songwriter Roger Smith recording horn parts for his upcoming album.

Pictured from left to right: Sherman Irby, Roger Smith, Vincent Gardner, Thor Madsen and Shawn Edmonds.

5.16.03

-VH1 came in with Michael Leviton, well known for his Ukulele based love songs about the sea, to record his latest hit, You're my VH1 and only. The 30 second VH1 promo taped live in our Yellow room will be running all summer long. From left to right: Scott Pittinsky & John Eaton from Compound Productions, Singer Michael Leviton, Kaori Bohma and Noah Weiss from VH1, and Steven Alvarado & Jason Marcucci from Dubway Studios.

5.9.03

Benny Landa brought in Anton Fig and John Regan to record the final tracks for his new CD.


Left to right: Anton Fig, Benny Landa and John Regan.

Producer Giovanni Fusco brought in his latest project Sky Train to record three songs for their upcoming release.


Left to right: Producer, Giovanni Fusco. Skytrain: B, Darren, Dave, Phil and Engineer Mike Presta.

Jason Miles had Will Lee, Dean Brown and Gene Lake in for some improvisational magic, recorded by engineer Steven Addabbo and assisted by Dubway's Mike Presta.


Bassist Will Lee, Guitarist Dean Brown, Keyboardist/Producer Jason Miles, Drummer Gene Lake and Engineer Steven Addabbo.

Renowned folk singer Eric Andersen was in our yellow room, recording an interview for televison and radio to promote his concert tour and newest album release.

At Dubway this past Saturday, New York singer/songwriter/studio session ace Kati Mac, worked on a her latest recording project. Helping her out were her old friends, Jack Bashkow, Tim Ouimette, Dale Kleps and Mike Crehore.

Katie Mac with Tim Ouimette, Mike Crehore, Jack Bashkow and Dale Kleps.

4.27.03

Last weekend, well known country music artist JW Lance was here recording overdubs for "Too Soon," a song he co-wrote with Marvin Conan, and which is slated to be the first single on his upcoming album release. JW is a member of the Country Music Association, and has been inducted into the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame. The session was engineered by our own Mike Presta.

4.23.03

-Industry buzz-heavy Coptic Light was here recording and mixing some tracks with Emery Dobyns. The band has been hard at work writing and recording and trying to decide which record label they would like to release their project on. Dubway's Andy Gerard assisted.

-We like it busy around here and last week was no exception. Composer/Producer Angelo Badalamenti of David Lynch fame (he scored every Lynch film after Eraser Head), was here recording his latest film score for HBO Films. The film, titled Undefeated, stars John Leguizamo as an up-and-coming boxer. Leguizamo was here along with composer Andrew Barrett, music editor Tass Filipos, engineer Phil Mann, and our own Jason Marcucci, working to capture that signature Badalamenti sound. Juging from the clips we got to see, the film's going to be a hot one!

-Spring has sprung and the clocks have moved ahead! Speaking of moving ahead... that's exactly what we're doing at Dubway! In the past week we've done sessions with Kyle Fischer, Toybox Theatre, and Wendy Wall.

-Acclaimed recording artist Wendy Wall came in to record a song for Nola, a new film from Talking Pictures starring Emmy Rossum, Mary McDonnell, Steven Bauer and James Badge Dale. The film was directed by Alan Hruska and Produced by Jill Footlick and Rachel Peters. The film studio told Ms. Wall that they wanted to record the song themselves at their studio, but she wouldn't have it. Wall insisted on recording at Dubway Studios with engineer/owner Mike Crehore.

Wendy Wall

Nola will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 8, 10 and 11th. Tickets are available at tribecafilmfestival.org.

-Singer songwriter Kyle Fischer came in to record his upcoming solo album with visiting engineer Mark Haines of Butch Vig's Smart Studios, assisted by Dubway's own Michael Presta. Fischer chose to work entirely in the analog realm, on Dubway's 2" Studer. The album features Jenni Fischer on piano, Stuart Gunter on drums, Kevin Shea (drums on The Love of Everything), Jason and Kori from Mates of State on drums/piano/organ/female vox, and Pascal on vox.

From left to right: Assistant Engineer Michael Presta, Kyle Fischer, and Engineer Mark Haines.

-Toybox Theatre is a recently founded performing arts group. The group aspires to provide the audience with a personal and thought provoking theatrical experience that examines the fundamentals of humankind. They were here creating all of the pre-recorded music for their upcoming May shows at the Pantheon Theatre here in New York City. Composer Joe Brent thanked us for being "the best studio in New York," and told us that he "can honestly say that [he has] never worked with a better staff of engineers anywhere in the world." The musicians included artistic director John Barsness, violinists Phil Payton and Max Moston, Lev Zhubrin on Viola, and Cellist Catherine Bent.

Toybox Theatre

3.30.03

-Howdy, and welcome to DubNews. As March comes to a close, Dubway Studios continues to be the hotbed of musical activity on 26th Street. Shaun Cruz has finished his new album, titled The Moment Versus the Future. The album, recorded and mixed at Dubway by engineer Emery Dobyns, is available on Shaun's website, www.cruzonerecords.com, and will be in stores soon!

-Engineer Michael Ungerer, who began his career at Dubway over a decade ago, has returned to us from Germany for a short stay, and we're thrilled to have him back with us!

Engineer Michael Ungerer.

-One of the projects Michael is working on is Songs of Love by William Norman. Songs of Love is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating personalized songs for chronically and terminally ill children. More information is available at www.songsoflove.org.

3.19.03

-Comin' at ya from Dubway!! Continuing our tradition of working with some of the finest talent in the world, pianist/producer Charles Blenzig, recording star Patti Austin, bassist Will Lee of the David Letterman Show, and drummer Buddy Williams were here recording some tracks for a tribute album honoring the career of Japanese recording star Yumi Matsutouya released by Sony Music Japan.

Will Lee, Charles Blenzig, Patti Austin, and Buddy Williams.

Studio owner Mike Crehore, Will Lee, Charles Blenzig, Austin's manager Barry Orms, Patti Austin, Buddy Williams, studio owner Al Houghton, studio manager Steven Alvarado, Amy Brazelton from Pipeline Productions, Assistant Engineer Shoko Watanabe.

3.10.03

-Greetings from Dubway! Last week was a productive one for clients Shaun Cruz, The Drakes, and Bering Strait. The Drakes just finished a whirlwind session with owner/engineer Al Houghton in which they recorded and mixed 3 songs in two days (all while reliving joyous memories from a Kung-Pao movie). Shaun Cruz continues working diligently on his new record with engineer Emery Dobyns, and Bering Strait worked towards perfection on their new release with engineer Jason Marcucci.

The Drakes: Laura Ponce, Wes Little, Joe Quigley, and Drew Lavyne.

3.5.03

-Hey Folks. The past couple months have seen Dubway Studios operating at full-throttle. Both Rosie Perez and Sandra Bernhard were here, singing some tracks for Whoopi Goldberg's "Littleburg," a project we are recording and mixing for Nickelodeon.

From left to right: studio owner Mike Crehore, Robert Scull, Rosie Perez, John Platania, Michael Pillot, and studio manager Steven Alvarado.

-Other artists we've had in the studio over the past couple months include: The Drakes, Shaun Cruz, and Bering Strait.

-New at Dubway: Studio Manager Steven Alvarado took over for Liz Bustamante in February. He comes to us from Dreamworks Records, and we're very happy to have him here!

Studio Manager Steven Alvarado

-Did you know:
We've also got two brand new Dual Processor Titanium G4 Macs gracing our Yellow and Green Rooms. Firewire capable, dual monitors, and plenty of RAM. Integrated machine control with either Beta SP or 3/4" video decks in-house.

1.7.03

-Happy New Year! It has been a busy one right out of the gate. Last week we saw Amy Rigby ('Diary of A Mod Housewife') in the Yellow Room recording a track for her upcoming album. Richard Barone (ex-Bongos leader) Produced and Al Houghton was the Engineer.

Al, Amy and Richard in the control room.

-International recording artist Ishtar (formerly the lead singer for Alabina) was also in the Yellow Room recording tracks with both Al Houghton and Jason Marcucci on Engineering duties.