May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024
AC Sapphire, winner of the 2022 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition, is currently recording an album — part of her Grand Prize package — at Citizen Studios. Last week she was joined in the studio by 2019 NewSong Grand Prize Winner Jobi Riccio on vocals and guitar. AC’s album also includes contributions from Claude Coleman Jr., drummer for Ween, and one of the 2022 judges who selected AC as NewSong’s Grand Prize Winner. Claude is pictured below, far right.
Asheville-based singer-songwriter Anya Hinkle won Best WORLD Award in the 2023 U.S.A. Songwriting Competition for her song “Eitel (Fly) Away.”
Anya will release her newest album, OCEANIA, in 2024. It was recorded at Citizen Studios, produced by legendary Irish producer Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinéad O’Connor) and featuring brilliant Irish guitarist John Doyle (Solas, Tim O’Brien, Joan Baez) and innovative slide guitarist Billy Cardine (pictured below).
If you’re interested in learning more about recording or mixing at Citizen Studios, email studio@citizenvinyl.com.
Aoife O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP, All My Friends, comes out March 22. It’s available in four vinyl variants — opaque violet, opaque yellow, opaque green, and opaque deep purple — all proudly pressed at Citizen Vinyl for Yep Roc. The album is inspired by the… View Article
Drum Major Instinct (Jeff Arnal on percussion and Curt Cloninger on modular synthesizer) gives a special free performance at Citizen Vinyl on Saturday, March 16. Doors at 1:30, show at 2 p.m. Jeff and Curt had known each other for a while, but it was… View Article
If you’ve been to Citizen Vinyl in the past six months, you’ve probably noticed the exhibition of large-form porcelain vases — inspired by Greek vessels for storing oil — featuring a variety of portraits of rock stars. These were created by Anja Bartels and her… View Article