The Underground - Recording Studio

16/07/2024

Have you had a chance to check out the new album "uplift" by Andy Wyatt? This was a big project for us to work on and we had such a wonderful time doing it: recording horns, steel drums, backing vocals, editing and mixing the album and having Michel Doucet master the record! Cudo's to the awesome musicians featured on this release:

Andy Wyatt - vocals, guitars, piano, organ, clavinet, ukulele
Russ Sternglass - drums, percussion
Jeffrey Stedman - electric bass guitar, electric upright bass
Mike Conerty - trumpet
Danielle Conerty - trombone
Ian Gollub - alto & tenor saxophone
Barbara Smith - baritone saxophone, double second pan
Scott Paulson - lead tenor pan
Pete Meijer - backing vocals, wooden flute, blues harp
John Snyder - backing vocals, electric guitar on "wonderful"
Woody Thompson - backing vocals
Jim Yeager Music - backing vocals

Let us know what you think in the comments below! 👇

14 track album

08/07/2024

Check out this great article from The White River Valley Herald, covering this year’s Make Music Day event in Randolph 🤩

Those who weren’t deterred by the on-and-off rain on Friday were treated to a day of sonorous celebration as Randolph’s annual Make Music Day events brought 12 hours of music to the village. Friday, June 21 was the summer solstice, which each year marks International Make Music Day, a world-wide...

02/07/2024

What a fun album release show for Andy Wyatt’s new record “uplift” at Skunk Hollow Tavern! The album is out now on all streaming platforms and physical copies are available for sale on Andy’s Bandcamp page.

17/06/2024

Super exciting news! Suburban Samurai just announced their new EP "Sorry About Last Time"! We will be hosting the Suburban Samurai - EP Release Show w/ Better Things and Adulting at The Underground on August 24th! Get your tickets now and get your hands on the new EP on August 1st!

‘Sorry About Last Time’ - Out August 1

26/04/2024

We're super excited to share the debut song and lyric video by Miles Of Fire, now on YouTube! Go listen to Conditional 🤘
Mixed at The Underground - Recording Studio
Mastered at West West Side Music

Miles Of Fire is a post-hardcore band featuring former members of Drowningman. New EP coming soon.

22/04/2024

Stay tuned 🤘🏼

📸 We’re getting ready to launch 👍

22/04/2024

Join Make Music Day's 5th annual global song swap, !

Songwriters and composers of all kinds are invited to sign up to learn and perform a song by another artist, from another part of the world, and hear one of your original songs covered by them in return!

This year one pair of songwriters will be selected at random to win valuable prizes from our partners: a ukulele from Flight, a Scarlett 2i2 (4th gen) audio interface from Focusrite, and a Novation Launchkey 37.

Make Music Day invites you to join in the fifth annual global song swap! Learn a song by another artist and hear yours covered in return. Songwriters, composers, musicians and bands of all styles and walks of life are invited to participate! You do not need access to professional recording equipment...

10/04/2024

Vermont musicians: June 21 is international Make Music Day, and you’re invited to make it happen across Vermont! Join music makers in 1,000 cities and 120+ countries who ‘come out and play,’ celebrating music in their communities all over the world. It started in France 40 years ago and Vermont is the first statewide participant in this totally inclusive festival that everyone can be a part of. Every style of music is welcome in every kind of place, from front porches to main street sidewalks, library steps to parks and anywhere that people can share and enjoy music with each other. For more info and to put yourself on the festival map, visit bigheavyworld.com/makemusicvt. Make Music Day in Vermont — ‘Make Music Vermont’ — is coordinated by Big Heavy World and made possible by our community partners, Front Porch Forum and Vermont Public Radio, and our national presenting sponsor, the NAMM Foundation.

Make Music Vermont brings music makers of all ages and experience together on June 21, the first day of summer — a free celebration of music-making that takes place on the same day in more than 120 countries and 1,000 cities across the globe.

29/03/2024

Check out our new blog post summing up what happened at The Underground this month. You can read it now over on our website!

Hello! Welcome to the March edition of The Underground - Recording Studio Newsletter! And welcome back if you were able to check out the previous edition which featured studio releases from January AND February 2024, such as music from Sammy Blanchette, Lance Mills and Licorice Finn.March has been a...

04/03/2024

New and final release from our friends in Wool, titled "Let There Bee Love"! Give it a listen on your favorite streaming platform, below! We've loved working with Wool and the energy each band member has brought to our music community! 🥰🐝🎶

Stream and Pre-save Let There Bee Love - Distributed by DistroKid

01/03/2024

Chris Powers' brand new single "Try So Hard (feat. Matt Deigaard)" is out today, recorded and mixed at The Underground - Recording Studio. You can stream it on your favorite platforms and buy it today on Bandcamp!

Thank you Mark Scetta from Stellar Sound Labs for your great work on the master.

track by Chris Powers

01/03/2024

We are super excited to announce our band new studio blog. From this point on we are going to publish monthly blog post keeping you up to date with the latest and greatest happenings at our studio and most importantly the cool new releases from our clients! Our friend and collaborator Dave Wrong will keep you in the loop. Read the first post below.

Greetings, music fans! In this first issue of The Underground - Recording Studio Blog, we will be playing catch up! We will cover the first 2 months of 2024 and the projects that were released during those months. There is so much wonderful music that is being recorded here at our studio. Check out....

27/02/2024

Check out and support Breanna Elaine Music's fundraiser for her new project "Where the Snakes Live", which we are excited to be a part of!

Project raising awareness of the drug epidemic, donating money to charity and honoring Jeremy ❤️ | Check out 'Where the snakes live project' on Indiegogo.

21/02/2024

Review time: “Green Mountain Saturday Night” just got reviewed by Chris Farnsworth over at Seven Days.

“Green Mountain Saturday Night pulls off the impressive feat of not sounding like a tribute, as records re-creating the sounds of the past often do.”

“The album was recorded at the Underground studio and performance space in Randolph. Producer Vincent Freeman captures the retro sounds perfectly, keeping a balance between modern techniques and letting the throwback tones slip in at the right moments.”

Read the full review below ⬇️

(Self-released, digital) Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity states that the flow of time can change depending on one's traveling speed. Fairlee singer-songwriter Lance Mills...

16/02/2024

Check out this great article and interview with Sammy B Live Music, over on Grow Local Music, regarding his new album "Eventually", recorded and mixed at The Underground!

Just released from The Underground Recording Studio, Sammy Blanchette's new full-length acoustic album, Eventually, hit streaming platforms on January 4, 2024...the verdict is in, and it's hella woot-worthy! We were lucky enough to catch up with Blanchette (known locally around the Ludlow and Killin...

06/02/2024

It's release day! Uncomfortably Gray by Licorice Finn is out today and we can't wait for you to go listen to it! It's available on Bandcamp today.

"Licorice Finn navigates a growing intuitive awareness for all the usual mental-murder suspects: love-desired, love-discarded, and love-imagined. Toss in some self-discovery to round everything out in the imperfect but honest fashion of Licorice Finn."

This was a really fun one to work on as it was a very collaborative project relying on the strengths of everyone involved.

Glenn Evans: Vocals
Bow Thayer: Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Resonator Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Backing Vocals
Jeff Berlin: Drums, Percussion
Barbara Smith: Saxophone
Glendon Ingalls: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Trombone, Valve Trombone, Sousaphone
Hillary Jeanne: Backing Vocals, Lead Vocal
Jakob Breitbach: Violin
Daniel Lin: Cello
Chris Decato: Organ
Vincent Freeman: Backing vocals, slide whistle
Amelia, Lily and Maya Evans: Backing vocals

Lyrics by Glenn Evans
Music by Bow Thayer
Produced by Bow Thayer, Vincent Freeman and Glenn Evans

Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Vincent Freeman at The Underground in Randolph, VT
Drums and Percussion recorded by Jeff Berlin, Violin recorded by Jakob Breitbach, Cello recorded by Daniel Lin
Mastered by Michel Doucet at Mitch-Studio

Album Art:
Photography by Matt Gustafson at Gusto Photos
Multimedia Art by Susan Cornick
Artwork layout by Vincent Freeman

7 track album

26/01/2024

The Vermont Arts Council is accepting applications for their Creation Grants, which includes "A musician composing music for a new album". Apply by April 9th and let us at The Underground - Recording Studio know if we can help you with your next project.

Creation Grants support artists or artist groups in creating new work. Grant funds may be used to compensate the artists for time spent creating new work, to purchase materials, or to rent equipment or space for the process. This highly competitive program is reviewed by an independent panel of prac...

04/01/2024

First release of 2024: Green Mountain Saturday Night by Lance Mills Music is out now for your listening pleasure!

This album is a real team effort with musical contributions by Lance Mills, Ted Mortimer, Bobby Gagnier, Gary Respess, Sandy Alexander, Jim Pittman, Jakob Breitbach, John Nicholas Ditcheos, Bob Stannard, Eleanor Konings, Chico Cremo, Vincent Freeman, Nora Showalter, Molly Showalter & Greta Mills and was mastered by Michel Doucet!

Let us know what you think in the comments!

12 track album

22/12/2023

We’re very excited for this album to release! It’s been a long time in the making. We put a lot of creative energy into it. Stay tuned 🤩

13/12/2023

The Underground - Recording Studio turns 5 today!! And what incredible 5 years they've been. We are busier than ever, thanks to the trust and support of our music community. You continue coming down to The Underground with your awesome projects and we are extremely grateful for that.

A big thank you goes out to all of our collaborators, new and old, that we've worked with these past years (you know who you are). We are excited for The Underground to continue growing this next year and beyond.

Cheers to our musical family, our creative collaborators and to the Vermont community! 🥳

13/12/2023

Have you listened to the new Of Conscious Mind EP "Spellwords"? We had such a fun time working on it all summer long! You can find it on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp at https://ofconsciousmind.bandcamp.com/album/spellwords

28/11/2023

The The Vermont Arts Council is accepting Artist Development Grant Applications (due January 30th). Thought we'd let our musician friends know 😊

Artist Development Grants support Vermont artists at all stages of their careers. Grants can fund activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills or that increase the viability of an artist’s business. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work when the activity ...

27/11/2023

Check out Of Conscious Mind's new killer website!

We are Of Conscious Mind (OCM) and we'd like to extend a warm welcome to you and a BIG THANKS for checking out our website. The idea of OCM was formed on or about Fall of 2020, birthed from the eclectic, alternative-leaning minds of Mathe & Beth Svahn who contacted a local Vermont recording studio i...

27/09/2023

Always a great day working with Rebecca Turmel and Jim Yeager Music!

My home away from home ❤️

I can’t tell you what we’re working on yet, but we had another great session today at The Underground…

01/09/2023

We've been eagerly awaiting the release of Quaranteam's new EP! "Phoenix Phaze" is out today on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp (btw. it's Bandcamp Friday)! Go play it loud!

We had a killer time working on this release with the band. They also released a lyric video for their song "Gloirǝ". Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsAfyRQmAw

6 track album

30/08/2023

It can be done. We recorded a 10 song acoustic album with in one day.
Shows, if you’re well rehearsed and know your songs by heart it only takes one or two takes to lay down a track.