Danny spent the better part of last summer engineering White Denim’s new record at Lakeside Studio. D is finally out on Downtown Records and has already received a slew of critical acclaim:

Pitchfork:
“D is easily White Denim’s best-sounding effort yet: The band’s trademark shape-shifting compositions now feature clean, interlocking guitar lines, and singer James Petralli’s voice has smoothed out into a raspy howl. It’s also their most consistent album”

Rolling Stone:
“4 stars” (read review here)
“Top 50 records of 2011″ (read review here)

New York Times:
“Rugged, fidgety, overdriven garage rock sweetened with psychedelic swirl”

Spin:
“A quality dose of heart garage rock and punk rock aesthetic”

Check out the video for Street Joy off of D below:

Danny’s former Belaire bandmates Christine Aprile and Malcolm Elijah Welbourne, together known as Silent Diane came by Good Danny’s for a couple of days to mix their new 7″ Capella for Matador Records imprint True Panther Sounds.

You can stream the A side Capella from Pitchfork.

SD have been touring the country this summer with mates Pure-X and Sleep Over. Check out their Bandcamp page for more tour dates and to purchase this rad 7″.  Check out what Gorilla Vs. Bear and The Fader has to say about SD.

Occasionally a record comes along that Danny dives WAY far into. This is one of them…

Steady Eye, Shaky Bow – 10 songs that we poured our hearts into over the course of the last year and a half.  Suzanna and Danny collaborated on striping these songs back to their core, rearranging and building them back up with a healthy dose of style and soul inspired by their shared influences to create a beautiful bed for Suzanna to showcase her sultry, smokey vocals and playful melodies. Danny and Suzanna worked to build an extremely stylized and transportive record with touches of indie-folk, rock, trip-hop and jazz.

Check out this great feature on Suzanna and the new record from Austin360.com

Suzanna will be performing at the Austin City Limits Festival this fall and is opening for the Old 97′s for KGSR’s Blues on The Green series on August 3rd. Try to catch here live in Austin before she permanently relocates to NYC later this fall.

Lafayette, LA based indie-rock-poppers Brass Bed will be returning to Austin to work with Danny again through the summer at Jim Eno’s Public Hi-Fi studio tracking their 3rd LP. After several months of demoing, rehearsing and finalizing arrangements the band will join Danny in tracking their record live entirely on analog tape from start to finish – mixing on Public Hi-Fi’s beautiful Neve console using motorized Flying Fader automation.

Keep an ear out for Brass Bed’s song People Want To Be Happy used in a Target commercial on TV and Hulu this fall.

Stream Brass Bed’s most recent Daytrotter Session HERE.

At long last Jason Chronis’ (Voxtrot, Belaire) perfect blend of 60′s dream pop is ready for your ears. If you like spring reverb, tambourines and smart as hell arrangements – this is a record you’ll dig. More release details to come soon….

We began a quick 3 day session of drum tracking with Cully Symington before he left for Okkervil River’s tour supporting their new LP I Am Very Far. Cully is a guest into the Shearwater family on a few songs on this new record, the band’s first release with Sub Pop, while Thor is out destroying the world with Swans. We’ll begin full tracking with Thor and the rest of the band in late June at Treefort Studios and continue working through July back at Good Danny’s. We are mixing with Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) at his Tarquin Studios in Connecticut in September.

I’m keeping a daily recording diary of the sessions discussing hurdles we encountered and overcame, set-up, approach and tons of nerdy stuff that most people will not care for and a select few will love to death. More to come soon…in the meantime check out Cully’s lovely Gretsch round badge’s:

Re-20 Inside - D12 outside - kick tunnel all around

I’m really excited to be working with Dana and her awesome crew of talented, passionate folks that contributed to this beautiful recording – Grant Johnson (engineer), Chris Cox (arranger, musician), and many more fantastic musicians (Including our local string quartet rock stars Tosca!). On this record I’m striving to achieve the perfect balance and juxtaposition of the immanent/personal with the wide expansiveness of the Texas landscape that inspired Dana. I’ll be mixing this one at Lakeside Studio on their Neve 8058 console with boatloads of vintage goodies.

Below is a little video Dana shot of us exploring the reverb chamber at Premium Recording here in Austin yesterday where we ran select tracks back to capture a beautiful lush natural ambience of this hard plastered echo chamber – these will be used to add depth and distance in the mixing (as well as Lakeside’s EMT 140 and 240 plate reverbs for their lush smooth long reverb tails and a beautiful AKG BX-20 spring reverb for is dark chaos). These 3 classic reverb elements will be blended to help paint the deep, lush, expansive backdrop for Dana and her musicians to tell their story in front of.