Emily Lazar
Emily Lazar | |
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Birth name | Emily B. Lazar |
Born | New York U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Mastering Engineer |
Emily B. Lazar is an American Grammy-nominated mastering engineer.[1] She is the founder, president, and chief mastering engineer of The Lodge, an audio mastering facility that has operated in New York City's Greenwich Village since 1997.[2][3][4][5]
Career
Lazar has worked on over 2,000 albums with such artists as David Bowie, Foo Fighters, The Subways, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Lou Reed, Barbra Streisand, The Raveonettes Björk, Cults, Boy & Bear, Goldfrapp, Moby, Paul McCartney, The Naked and Famous, Garbage, Sonic Youth, Nada Surf, Sinéad O'Connor, Rza, Wu-Tang Clan, Sleigh Bells, Tiesto, Fucked Up, Chromeo, The Raveonettes, Thievery Corporation, Death Cab for Cutie, Heffron Drive, Depeche Mode, BT, The Velvet Underground, Morgan Page, Jedi Mind Tricks, John Mayer, Anti-Flag, Third Eye Blind, The Donnas, The All American Rejects, The Prodigy, Morrissey, Vampire Weekend, Destiny's Child, Matthew Shell & Arun Shenoy, and Vanessa Carlton.[6][7][8]
Current articles on Emily Lazar include features in NPR,[9] Artist Pro (cover story), Bust, Electronic Musician (cover story), Home Recording Magazine, Mix Magazine, Billboard Magazine, Pro Sound News, Medialine, Remix Magazine, and Tape Op. She has been a featured panelist lecturing on college campuses and in numerous music business and recording conferences.[10][11][12] Lazar has also been awarded the prestigious Palamountain Award for Young Alumni Achievement from Skidmore College and has served as an adjunct faculty of New York University in the Music Technology Department.[13] She is also a highly publicized product endorsee for Avalon Design (audio equipment), Apple Computers, Antelope Audio and Dangerous Music.[14][15] Emily resides in New York and presently serves on the Board of Governors for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Emily serves as the Co-Chair of the NY Chapter of the Recording Academy's Producer & Engineer's Wing and currently serves on the P&E Wing's National Steering Committee.
Early years
Born and raised in New York, Emily Lazar earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing and Music from Skidmore College, graduating cum laude with honors distinction in her major. During college, she wrote music, played in bands, and worked as a freelance engineer, producer and mixer. After college, Lazar worked in some of New York City's most prominent studios.[16] Later she earned a Master of Music Degree from New York University’s prestigious Music Technology program. While there, she pursued Tonmeister studies and was awarded a Graduate Fellowship. Lazar’s thesis on Sonic Solutions, combined with an internship at Sony Classical, eventually led to a position at New York City based mastering facility, Masterdisk.[12][17]
The Lodge
The Lodge, an audio mastering facility, opened in 1997 in Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan.[11]
Awards and nominations
Grammy nominations
- 2012 – Album of the Year[18] for Wasting Light by Foo Fighters
- 2015 – Record of the Year[19] for Chandelier by Sia
- 2016 – Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical[20] for Recreational Love by The Bird and the Bee
Pensado Awards
- 2014 – Emily Lazar was nominated for the Master of Mastering - Mastering Engineers Award at the first annual Pensado Awards show.[21]
TEC Awards
- 2012 – Emily Lazar won the Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Award[22] in the "Record/Production Album" category for her work on Foo Fighters's Wasting Light.
ELLE Magazine: The Women in Music Power List
- 2017 – Emily Lazar was featured in the June issue of Elle Magazine's The Women in Music Power List highlighting 14 women as "the industry's most influential execs, producers and songwriters."[23]
Recent work
2010
2011
Artist | Album | Label |
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The Naked & Famous | Passive Me, Aggressive You | Polydor Ltd/Fiction |
Brand New | Your Favorite Weapon (Reissue) | Razor & Tie/Triple Crown Records |
The Raveonettes | Rarities/B-Sides | The Orchard |
White Denim | D | Downtown Records |
Foo Fighters | Wasting Light | SAM Records/Roswell Records |
Morgan Page | In The Air | Nettwerk Music Group |
Ben Lee | Deeper into Dream | Ten Finger Records/Gold Village |
Cubic Zirconia | Follow Your Heart | Fool's Gold Records |
Ólöf Arnalds | Ólöf Sings | One Little Indian |
Against Me! | White Crosses/Black Crosses | Total Trebel Music |
CANT | Dreams Come True | Terrible Records/Warp Records |
Boy & Bear | Moonfire | Universal Music Australia |
Fucked Up | David Comes to Life | Matador |
Big Talk | Big Talk | Epitaph Records/ANTI Records |
Thievery Corporation | Culture of Fear | ESL |
Above & Beyond | Group Therapy | Anjunabeats |
Tiësto | Club Life: Volume II - Las Vegas | Musical Freedom |
Cults | Cults | Columbia Records |
Against Me! | Total Clarity | Fat Wreck Chords |
2012
Artist | Album | Label |
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The Killers | Battle Born | Mercury Records |
Alanis Morissette | Havoc and Bright Lights | Collective Sounds |
Shiny Toy Guns | III | Five Seven Music |
Santana | Shape Shifter | Starfaith Records |
BT | If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I | Laptop Symphony |
BT | Morceau Subrosa | Laptop Symphony |
Garbage | Not Your Kind of People | STUNVOLUME |
Tiësto | Club Life: Volume 2 - Miami | Musical Freedom |
Sondre Lerche | Bootlegs | Mana Records |
Diamond Rings | Free Dimensional | Astralwerks |
Bush Tetras | Happy | Reachout International Records, Inc. |
The Cringe | Hiding in Plain Sight | Listen Records |
Eleni Mandell | I Can See the Future | Yep Roc Records |
Trust | TRST | Arts & Crafts Productions |
Nigel Dupree | Up to No Good | Mighty Loud Records |
Jeff Wayne | War of the Worlds: The New Generation | 101 Distribution |
Shoes | Ignition | Black Vinyl Records |
Matt Boerum | Cold Hearted Disaster | Matthew Boerum |
Misstress Barbara | Many Shades of Grey | MapleMusic Recordings |
Say Anything | ...Is A Real Boy | Doghouse Records |
Indochine | Paradize +10 | Sony Music |
2013
2014
Artist | Album | Label |
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Sia | 1000 Forms of Fear | RCA Records |
The Reassure | Echoe | Örange Penguin Studio |
Linkin Park | The Hunting Party | Warner Bros. Records |
Linkin Park | The Hunting Party: Live From Mexico | Warner Bros. Records |
Say Anything | Hebrews | RCA Records |
Mimicking Birds | Eons | Glacial Pace Records |
Garbage | 10" Single Record Store Day Release | STUNVOLUME |
Hamilton Leithauser | Black Hours | Ribbon Music |
Christina Perri | Head or Heart | Sony Records |
Neon Hitch | 301 to Paradise | Warner Bros. Records |
TRUST | Joyland | Arts & Crafts |
Dive Index | Lost in the Pressure | Neutral Milk |
La Dispute | Rooms of the House | No Sleep Records |
Twofish | Zero Crossing | Self-released |
2015
2016
2017
Artist | Album | Label |
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Beck | Colors | Capitol Records |
Morrissey | Low in High School | BMG |
Haim | Something to Tell You | Polydor Records |
Rostam | Half-Light | Nonesuch |
Dams of the West | Youngish American | 30th Century Records/Columbia Records |
Ruth B | Safe Haven | Columbia Records |
The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | Columbia Records |
Coldplay | A L I E N S | Parlophone |
Coldplay | All I Can Think About Is You | Parlophone |
Coldplay | Kaleidoscope EP | Parlophone |
Mary Lambert | Bold | Mary Lambert Productions |
Coldplay | "Hypnotised" (song) | Parlophone |
Thievery Corporation | The Temple of I & I | Eighteenth Street/ESL Music/Ye |
Baltimore | Summer Rain | Self-released |
Ben Alessi | PRSSR[26] | Big House Recordings |
2018
Artist | Album | Label |
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All Hail the Silence | All Hail the Silence | Self-released |
Panic! At The Disco | Pray for the Wicked | Fueled By Ramen |
Speedy Ortiz | Twerp Verse | Gravesend Recordings |
References
- ↑ The Lodge Mastering. "The Lodge Mastering wraps up 2007 with the Grammy's | PRLog". Prlog.org. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Music: Fran Healy Masters 'Wreckorder' at The Lodge | Mixonline". Mixonline.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "The Lodge Masters The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Tiësto, The Raveonettes & More | SonicScoop - Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC's Music & Sound Community". Ssonicscoop.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Emily Lazar | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Emily Lazar Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Emily Lazar | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ The Lodge Mastering. "Vampire Weekend Master Debut Album with Emily Lazar at The Lodge | PRLog". Prlog.org. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "The Lodge’s Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta Master “Massive” New Foo Fighters Album | SonicScoop - Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC's Music & Sound Community". Sonicscoop.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "The Woman Behind The Curtain, Making Good Songs Sound Great : The Record : NPR". Npr.org. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 62. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- 1 2 "The Lodge". Archived from the original on 2005-02-05. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
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- ↑ "Emily Lazar - Selected Alumni Bios - NYU Steinhardt". Steinhardt.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ Hummingbird Media. "Antelope Audio Brings Back Popular OCXmas, Offering Special Discounts on OCX Master Clock and More | PRLog". Prlog.org. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Avalon New Users". Avalondesign.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Major in Music Technology at Skidmore College". Skidmore.edu. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "BT Remakes Mastering at The Lodge with "These Hopeful Machines" | SonicScoop - Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC's Music & Sound Community". Sonicscoop.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Complete List Of Grammy Winners & Nominees". Billboard.
- ↑ "Grammys 2015: And the Nominees Are…". Billboard.
- ↑ "Grammy Nominations 2016: See the Full List of Nominees". Billboard.
- ↑ "PENSADO AWARDS - JUNE 28TH, 2014 LOS ANGELES, CA". Pensadoawards.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "The TEC Awards". The Tec Foundation. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ↑ "ELLE's Women In Music Power List". Elle.com. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ↑ Emily Lazar, "Emily Lazar", Music Brainz
- ↑ Ben Alessi, "Ben Alessi", Music Brainz
- ↑ "Ben Alessi Is a Serious Force of Creativity on Debut 'PRSSR' EP: Premiere — via Billboard". Big House Publishing. Retrieved 18 August 2017.