Tag: Robert Cherry

• Plastic Ants: Amidst This Noise

  After A Soft Escape in 2020, Plastic Ants are back with ten new songs, Amidst This Noise. The album is out now, only on Bandcamp. As always, it was a completely D.I.Y. effort, with final mastering by Mike Montgomery at Candyland Studio. Our good friend Jeff Johns designed the album art, which features a cover…

• Even Walls Fall Down: The Last Days of Ultrasuede

  Background: Recording studios are my favorite spaces—the ultimate musician’s playground—and I spent a lot of time at one of the best, Ultrasuede, where I recorded three Plastic Ants albums with our producer-bassist John Curley. In 2018, when we entered Ultrasuede to track a Tom Petty tribute, John revealed the studio’s lease was under negotiation, but…

• Reaper On Red: Apocalypse… Now On Vinyl

  The vinyl version of my group Reaper On Red’s second album Doom Daze is now shipping via Bandcamp. The limited-edition run of 200 numbered copies is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl and dressed in a full-color jacket and a black-and-white sleeve. We had the pleasure of working once again with Candyland Studio’s Mike Montgomery (Breeders,…

• Lucky Pierre and Prick: Bright Side Up

  Background note: This feature originally appeared in 2004, when Kevin McMahon released a deluge of CDs comprising work from all eras of his stop-start career. He soon after closed down the website selling the catalog and retreated again from the spotlight. I ran into him at a restaurant, in 2024, and he seemed happy. He claimed…