2004

Dec. 30, 2004 Bill Racine mastering Captain Yonder and recording with The Gritty Midi Gang.
Dec. 29, 2004 Dave mixing Captain Bringdown and The Buzzkillers. For Fun.
December 2004 Nicolai Dunger's recent release, "Here's My Song, You Can Have It... I Don't Want It Anymore /Yours 4-Ever Nicolai Dunger", produced by Mercury Rev, has been nominated for a Swedish Grammy.
Dec. 5, 2004 Sleater-Kinney mixing.
Nov. 28, 2004 Lips Surround.
Nov. 5, 2004 Sleater-Kinney here working on their 7th album with Dave. For Sub Pop.
October 25, 2004 Dave and Mr. Ivins continue mixing The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin in Surround Sound.
October 20, 2004 Lake Trout here recording a song with Dave.
October 14, 2004 Bass Piggy 11 from 97 mixed.
October 11, 2004 Scott Reynolds in working on some new songs with Dave and Steven Drozd.
September 25, 2004 Flaming Lips here working on Soft Bulletin Surround with Dave.
September 21, 2004 Dave and Scott begin work on a new project, Scott Reynolds and The Steaming Beast.
September 17, 2004 Dave in mastering Home 15.
September 14, 2004 Dave masters an upcoming Scott Reynolds compilation.
September 11, 2004 Dave in mixing Bass Piggy.
September 1, 2004 Cafe Tacuba were nominated for 5 Latin Grammys, “Album del Ao”, “Cancin del Ao”, “Mejor Album Msica Alternativa”, “Mejor Cancin Rock”, “Mejor Video Musical” y “Productor del Ao (Gustavo Santaolalla por “Cuatro Caminos)” and won both “Mejor Album Msica Alternativa”and “Mejor Cancin Rock”.
August 12, 2004 Low return to finish their new album. This is their 7th album and will be put out on Sub Pop.
July 2, 2004 Lake Trout here from Baltimore, MD recording with Tony Doogan.
June 23, 2004 Aerial Love Feed in from NYC, mixing with Bill Racine.
June 17, 2004 Dave in mixing another 6x7 song.
June 2, 2004 Flaming Lips are here. New songs, a song for a Sponge Bob Squarepants movie, a Devo cover, surround sound movie music...etc. etc.
May 29, 2004 Dave participates in a panel on mixing at the Tape Op Conference in New Orleans with Michael Brauer, Trina Shoemaker, F. Reid Shippen and Trent Bell.
May 20, 2004 The Paris Gun are recording several songs with Dave.
May 6, 2004 Mercury Rev are here for their final mixing session with Dave.
April 19, 2004 Low in recording with Dave for Kranky Records.
April 7, 2004 Mercury Rev are here mixing with Dave.
March 25, 2004 Flaming Lips here working on a Daniel Johnston song for Mark Linkous. And recording some new Lips stuff.
March 10, 2004 Odiorne recording with Bill Racine.
March 3, 2004 Rev in.
February 25, 2004 Steven Drozd recording with Dave.
February 18, 2004 Mercury Rev begins mixing at Tarbox with Dave.
February 15, 2004 Captain Bringdown plays last gig at BJs with Junkbutton. Thanks to Waz for playing the cowbell. This was our last gig because after nearly two years assisting at Tarbox, Bill is moving on to pursue his career in NYC.
February Friday 13, 2004 Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers recording some stuff.
February 11, 2004 Dave in mixing 6x7.
February 9, 2004 Junkbutton/Bill.
February 8, 2004 Cafe Tacuba Cuatro Caminos wins a Grammy for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. Rolling Stone had Cuatro Camino as #9 in The Critic's Top Ten of 2003 Music Awards, Feb. 5 issue.
February 6, 2004 Odiorne/Bill.
February 5, 2004 Dave remixing Daniel Johns and Paul Mac.
January 28, 2004 Dave back in Kingston, NY w/ Mercury Rev.
January 26, 2004 NYC band, LEVY, in recording with Bill.
January 19, 2004 Junkbutton with Bill.
January 17, 2004 Odiorne in with Bill Racine
January 16, 2004 Junkbutton in recording rock music with Bill Racine.
January 10, 2004 Dave travels to Kingston, NY to continue work on a new Mercury Rev album for V2 Records.

2003
*Dec. 28, 2003 Odiorne in with Bill.
*Dec. 20, 2003 Odiorne in recording with Bill Racine.
*Dec. 16, 2003 More Mercury Rev here at Tarbox.
*Dec. 4, 2003 Grammy Nominations! Cafe Tacuba Cuatro Caminos has been nominated for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. And Flaming Lips Fight Test ep is up for Best Alternative Album.
*Dec. 1, 2003 Sparklehorse at Tarbox recording with Dave for Capitol.
*Nov. 19, 2003 Mercury Rev is here recording with Dave for V2.
*Nov. 4, 2003 Dave recording with Mercury Rev in Kingston.
*Nov. 3, 2003 Bill in with Desoto Reds.
*Nov. 2, 2003 Petri in with Joi Veer.
*Oct. 20, 2003 Dave leaves for Kingston, NY to record with Mercury Rev.
*Oct. 11, 2003 Captain Bringdown and Goldrush play a show at BJ's. Mark Gardener also got up for a song with Goldrush.
*Oct. 6, 2003 Mark Gardener and Goldrush recording Mark's music with Bill.
*Oct. 4, 2003 Odiorne in with Bill.
*Sept. 25, 2003 Goldrush here from England, recording some new songs with Dave.
*Sept. 20, 2003 Rochester band, Bangers and Trash recording with Dave.
*Sept. 18, 2003 Rochester band, Free Beer and Chicken recording with Bill.
*Sept. 15, 2003 Dave, Jon and Sean of Mercury Rev in recording a new song.
*Sept. 14, 2003 Bill in working on Phantom Planet live dvd.
*Sept. 8, 2003 Kaolin returns for more mixing.
*Sept. 1, 2003 John Petri in mixing with Molotov Cocktail.
*Aug. 29, 2003 Captain Bringdown, Junkbutton, and Kaolin play BJ's. The doctor was in but out of his mind.
*Aug. 25, 2003 Kaolin comes to Tarbox. from France. mixing a record with Dave. for Barclay.
*Aug. 18, 2003 Flaming Lips here recording some new songs and doing a remix of Chumbawumba's Tubthumping. And a mix of a Modest Mouse song.
*Aug. 16, 17, 2003 Phantom Planet is the house band for BJ's this weekend.
*Aug. 11, 2003 Phantom Planet here recording more songs with Dave.
*Aug. 7, 2003 Bill in with Desoto Reds from San Francisco.
*Aug. 5, 2003 Dave and Mercury Rev in mastering the new Nicolai Dunger album.
*Aug. 3, 2003 More Odiorne with Bill.
*Aug. 1, 2003 A note from Joel Mark mentions the Cafe Tacuba record, Cuatro Caminos, has been #1 Album in Mexico for 3 weeks. Also a gold record for UK sales of Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots showed up.
*July 27, 2003 Captain Yonder in recording some more with Bill.
*July 26, 2003 Captain Yonder and Captain Bringdown and The Buzzkillers play at BJs. There were plenty o' pirates in attendance.
*July 23, 2003 Dave and Mark Sadeghian in mixing Vinni Blue (Deb Curley).
*July 22, 2003 Bass Piggy Session 16.
*July 21, 2003 Ryan Laurie recording with Bill.
*July 18, 2003 Captain Bringdown and The Buzzkillers in recording. Micky Mercurio singing and playing his songs on guitar. Dave on drums, Mary on bass, Bill on guitar.
*July 17, 2003 Odiorne in with Bill.
*July 15, 2003 Bass Piggy Session 15.
*July 11, 2003 Free Beer and Chicken with Bill.
*July 8, 2003 Bass Piggy Session 14.
*July 6, 2003 Captain Yonder arrives for some basics tracking with Bill.
*July 1, 2003 Odiorne in recording with Bill. Also, Bass Piggy Session 13 at home.
*June 29, 2003 John Petri in working with Annette Volino.
*June 28, 2003 Bill is mixing the new Rogue Wave EP for Responsive Recordings.
*June 27, 2003 Bill in mastering a record for St. Louis band, Captain Yonder, called "Whence, Whither, Hence, The Sordid. Pat Mundy assisting.
*June 25, 2003 Dave attends Phantom Planet mastering in NYC.
*June 23, 2003 Bill attends Hopewell mastering in NYC.
*June 19, 2003 Our after hours friend, CC, in recording a song, "Rain" with Bill Racine.
*June 7, 2003 Phantom Planet mixing.
*June 5, 2003 Dave's in mixing a Tears for Fears song....
*May 31, 2003 Dave will be appearing on the Producer's Panel at the Tape Op Conference in Portland, Oregon. Back in Cassadaga, Bill Racine continues working with Rogue Wave.
*May 15, 2003 Phantom Planet continue to record with Dave.
*May 9, 2003 Dave will be seen advertising a Microsoft product in Rolling Stone magazine. Dave still loves Macintosh. There will be future articles in Filter and Skyscraper Magazines.
*May 7, 2003 Dave's in recording with Longwave.
*May 5, 2003 Joi Veer in with John Petri.
*April 25, 2003 The Pavers, Phantom Planet,and Junkbutton play BJs in Fredonia, NY. Anyone who's been there will know the unlikeliness of this, but there was crowdsurfing that night.
*April 16, 2003 Phantom Planet here making a record with Dave for Sony.
*April 13, 2003 Dave masters Steve Burns' new record, Songs for Dustmites.
*April 9, 2003 Hopewell finishes mixing their new record, The Birds of Appetite.
*April 5, 2003 Dave does radio edit for Longwave song, Wake Me When It's Over.
*April 3, 2003 Dave mastering Love Parade ep.
*March 29, 2003 Phil Broikos here recording with Dave.
*March 28, 2003 Steven Drozd in recording movie music with Dave.
*March 27, 2003 More mixing of Duck Dodgers theme.
*March 25, 2003 Michael Arden records a bunch of songs with Bill Racine.
*March 19, 2003 Hopewell in mixing with Dave and Bill for Zeal Records.
*March 15, 2003 Odiorne here recording with Bill.
*March 12, 2003 Steve Burns here mixing a song with Dave for his upcoming album on Play It Again Sam.
*March 10, 2003 Dave does a mix for UK radio of Flaming Lips song, Fight Test.
*March 6, 2003 Dave in mastering a Pimp Fuzz record. I think Pimp Fuzz and Junkbutton should go on tour together.
*March 5, 2003 Dave mixes a Flaming Lips/Tom Jones theme song for upcoming Duck Dodgers series.
*February 27, 2003 Phantom Planet here recording with Dave.
*February 23, 2003 Flaming Lips have won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
*February 20, 2003 Pimp Fuzz Bypass #4. Dave gets called to NYC to do sound for Flaming Lips on David Lettermen.
*February 15, 2003 Last Conservative in tracking with John Petri.
*Japanese Year End Charts too! Mr. Kamo sent a couple magazines. Buzz magazine has Number Girl Num-Heavy Metallic as #3 in their album of the year chart. Looks like Delgados Hate is on an editor's choice list. Music Magazine has Number Girl #2 on a Best Album List. Also Lips Yoshimi #4 on an American Best Album List. And Delgados Hate #4 on a Uk Best Album List.
*February 9, 2003 Hopewell returns for more tracking with Bill Racine.
*January 23, 2003 Pips, Chips and Videoclips are here from Croatia mixing a record with Dave.
*January 21, 2003 More Junkbutton mixing.
*January 7, 2003 Flaming Lips song, Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia), off of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is nominated for a Grammy, Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
*January 1, 2003 Dave and Bill Racine are going to meet with Wayne Coyne and Elliot Scheiner to mix Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in surround sound.

2002
*Dec. 2002 Dave is chosen as Recording Person of The Year in Pro Sound News Dec. 2002 Issue.
Charts:Q Mag has Gemma Hayes Night on My Side and Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in their year end Top 50. Uncut has Lips #1 and Gemma Hayes #32. Mojo has Lips #2. NME Lips #11. SPIN has Lips Yoshimi #4 in their Albums of The Year. The Flaming Lips Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid/The Day They Shot a Hole In The Jesus Egg was #6 in Rolling Stone Top 10 Reissue List. CMJ Issue 795 Year End Chart has Yoshimi #2. Borders Amazon Top 100 Editor's Picks has Yoshimi #2 and Luna Romantica #99. Eye Weekly (Canada) Lips in top single, album, artists lists Delgados Hate #23 Best Album List. Etc.
*Dec. 28, 2002 Junkbutton in mixing a few tracks with Dave.
*Dec. 18, 2002 Hopewell here tracking with Bill Racine for Zeal Records.
*Dec. 3, 2002 Dave and Bill begin preparations for upcoming Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 5.1 dvd audio surround mix.
*Nov. 19, 2002 Rogue Wave here from San Francisco recording with Bill Racine.
*Nov. 16, 2002 Phil Broikos recording with Dave.
*Nov. 1, 2002 Dave begins recording with Mexican band, Cafe Tacuba on MCA.
*Oct. 29, 2002 Joi Veer in with John Petri.
*Oct. 22, 2002 Brother Eye Contest at Rolling Stone.
*Oct. 8, 2002 Today, Wheat is here mixing songs with Dave for Aware Records.
*Oct. 4, 2002 Whirlwind Heat in mixing with Jack White producing and Dave engineering for Third Man Records.
*Oct. 2, 2002 Goldrush mixing.
*Sept. 23, 2002 Webb Brothers return for mixing.
*Sept. 20, 2002 Dave in mixing Goldrush songs for Virgin.
*Sept. 18, 2002 Dave attends Longwave mastering session at Sterling Sound, NYC. Bill Racine mixing Collider at Tarbox.
*September 2002, Rolling Stone thingy. Brother Eye coolest band in America. They mention Lips too.
*Sept. 16, 2002 Dave in mixing two Broadcast songs for Work.
*Sept. 9, 2002 Longwave returns to finish their new album for RCA and East West...
*Sept. 4, 2002 Sirens in mixing with Michael Ivins.
*August 31, 2002 John and Mary in mixing their new album with John Petri.
*August 29, 2002 Dave is mastering the new Grand Mal album, Bad Timing, for Arena Rock.
*August 1, 2002 Longwave returns to (not) finish their new album for RCA and East West.
*July 26, 2002 Tarbox gets a new ProTools system. HD2 with 96 I/O and an Apogee AD 8000 interface. This complements the existing ProTools MixPlus with AD8000 interface already in place.
*July 5, 2002 Collider here recording with Tony Doogan.
*June 28, 2002 Longwave plays BJs, Fredonia NY. It is true. We were all feeling the love...
*June 18, 2002 Longwave back recording for East West Records. Bill Racine is here as assistant engineer while Michael Ivins begins Flaming Lips duties.
*June 10, 2002Wheat here recording for Aware..
*June 6, 2002 Grand Mal arrives to finish mixing their new record which will come out on Arena Rock.
*June 3, 2002 A gold record delivered on the back porch for Weezer's Pinkerton. Also Wayne called, Flaming Lips' new song, Fight Test, is on this week's Six Feet Under on HBO. AND May Issue 2002 Q Mag had songs from Dot Allison, Ed Harcourt and Gemma Hayes on the accompanying cd, Rise and Shine The Best New Music of 2002.
*May 17, 2002 Longwave begins recording with Dave and Michael.
*May 15, 2002 Delgados here for a couple days of mixing with Tony Doogan, Dave and Michael.
*May 1, 2002 The Webb Brothers are here working with Dave.
*April 28, 2002 Grand Mal back for more mixing for upcoming Arena Rock release.
*April 27, 2002 Dave and Michael mastering upcoming re-release of Flaming Lips back catalog and bonus tracks from the Restless years.
*April 10, 2002 The Delgados are here mixing their upcoming album with Dave and Michael.
*April 6, 2002 Grand Mal in recording with Dave and Michael.
*March 31, 2002 Dave Fridmann in mastering the new Flaming Lips record tentatively titled Yoshimi vs. The Pink Robots for Warner Brothers Records.
*March 30, 2002 Greg Snow in doing overdubs with Junkbutton.
*March 18, 2002 John Petri in recording some new tracks with Colorfast.
*March 12, 2002 The Sirens from Detroit in recording with Michael Ivins.
*March 6, 2002 Wheat back recording a new song with Dave and Michael Ivins.
*February 20, 2002 Flaming Lips in for perhaps a final session for the new album.
*February 15, 2002 Grand Mal in recording.
*February 12, 2002 Blanco in recording with Michael Ivins engineering.
*February 4, 2002 Steve Burns returns for mixing 4 songs for Songs for Dust Mites with Dave.
*January 31, 2002 Mercury Rev here mixing the song, Funny Way. for a movie. And a radio mix of Little Rhymes.
*January 17, 2002 Number Girl returns for mixing.
*January 4, 2002 Flaming Lips begin another session here at Tarbox with Dave for their future album on Warner Brother's Records.

2001
*December 2001 Chart: NME Top 50 Albums of 2001...Mercury Rev All Is Dream #7, Sparklehorse It's A Wonderful Life #22, Mogwai Rock Action #28. Exclaim (Canada) Chart Pop Punk A Roll has Mercury Rev #4, Sparklehorse #5, Mogwai #11. Artvoice (Buffalo) Best Records of 2001 includes Sparklehorse and Mercury Rev. Japanese Music Magazine has selected Mercury Rev All Is Dream as #1 American Rock album and Mogwai Rock Action #4 British Rock Album.
*December 30, 2001 Steve Burns back recording with Dave, Michael Ivins and Steven Drozd.
*December 26, 2001 Junkbutton recording with Greg Snow engineering.
*November 30, 2001 Number Girl begins recording a new record with Dave for Toshiba/EMI. Returning to Tarbox from Japan, this will be their third release (2nd full-length) done with Dave. For this session,Tarbox's Neve 5104 is finally online, operational and in use. I have heard it sounds amazing. It can be used along with the Otari Console or on it's own..
*November 28, 2001 John Petri finishing The Last Conservative record.
*November 25, 2001 Steve Burns here working on preproduction for a future release. Also, John Petri in mixing Inner Man's new record.
*November 8, 2001 Flaming Lips are here.
*October 28, 2001 Grand Mal here from NYC recording with Dave and Michael for Arena Rock Records..
*October 21, 2001 John Petri in mixing The Last Conservative record..
*October 7, 2001 More with the Lips..
*October 1, 2001 The Mountain Goats are in recording with Tony Doogan for 4AD.
*Sep. 10, 2001 Gemma Hayes returns for album mixing.
*Aug. 22, 2001 Flaming Lips are back.
*Aug. 15, 2001 Dave is off to Japan to play a couple of shows with Mercury Rev..The Osaka Summer Sonic Festival Aug. 18 and the Tokyo Summer Sonic Festival Aug. 19..I believe he will be playing Kaoss Pad and a Proteus Sound Module..
*Aug.12, 2001 Dave masters Phil Broikos record.
*Aug. 9, 2001 Bass Piggy Session 12
*Aug 2, 2001 Dave's working with Chantal Kreviazuk for a couple of days..
*July 26, 2001 Dave interrupts Phil doing a one-off live sound gig for Boston band The Sheila Divine. The show was in Buffalo's Thursday at The Square for a more than 20,000 person crowd which I guess was some sort of record but the crowds have been regularily huge for the last 2 years..
*July 25, 2001 Phil Broikos in mixing more songs with Dave.
*July 19, 2001 Dave masters the Brother Eye record to be released on Bandaloop Records.
*July 9, 2001 Dave masters Bodega record.
*June 26, 2001 Flaming Lips are back in Cassadaga working on some music..
*June 25, 2001 Petri recording and mixing three new Imports songs.
*June 7, 2001 Gemma Hayes begins recording her new album for Source with Dave.
*May 23, 2001 Luna arrives to mix a new album with Dave.
*May 15, 2001 Flaming Lips here at Tarbox recording more with Dave. For Warner Brothers.
*May 2001 Ok got the Mojo. Dave is in a list of "100 Sonic Visionaries" . Page 79. The Sound on Sound Article from September 2000 appears to be available online now..
*May 9, 2001 Phil Broikos here mixing some of his own recordings with Dave.
*May 2, 2001 Brother Eye are here mixing with Dave for Bandaloop records.
*April 26, 2001 Dave's back in with Wheat.
*April 25, 2001 Mercury Rev w/ Dave attending the mastering session at Sterling Sound, NYC. Mastering the new Rev album for V2.
*April 23, 2001 Dave is doing a Collider mix.
*April 19, 2001 John Petri is mixing something..Let me know if you're looking.
*April 11, 2001 Mercury Rev are here. Will it jinx it to say that this is supposed to be their final session before mastering? This is not a press release...
*April 4, 2001 Wheat here working on their new album with Dave.
*March 31, 2001 Steve Copeland returns for some more recording.
*March 18, 2001 Mercury Rev returns.
*Feb. 28, 2001 Flaming Lips here to spend some time at Tarbox with Dave...
*Feb. 22, 2001 Dave mixing a song for Satellite on Mercury Records.
*Feb. 21, 2001 Dave mastering Michael Arden's new album. Michael Ivins begins working at Tarbox as the new assistant engineer.
*Feb. 7, 2001 Mercury Rev is back.
*Feb. 3,4, 2001 Phil Broikos here recording with Gemma and Dave.
*Jan. 31, 2001 Gemma Hayes is here from Ireland meeting and working with Dave.This is for Source Records.
*Jan.25, 2001 More Mercury Rev.
*Jan.22, 2001 David Peters here mixing a song with Dave.
*Jan.19, 2001 Next is Ed Harcourt mixing 2 songs with Dave for Heavenly Records. He's here from England.
*Jan. 15, 2001 Sparklehorse is in for more mixing with Dave for Capitol Records.
*Jan. 5, 2001 We have now become one with Mercury Rev. They will always be here (except when they are not). They are recording. They will continue til they are done. Noone knows what the results will be...or when. With Dave for V2 at Tarbox..Yes this is real.
*Jan. 3, 2001 Dave is mixing a new Pavers ep. This band includes Scott Reynolds formerly of All, Art Tantrum, Local Trauma..I believe they will put this ep out themselves.
*January 2001 The Delgados album The Great Eastern was #28 on NME's Best Albums of 2000..