RECORDING | march 2010

The rapper formerly known as Dat Boy Grace grew up as a member of the late DJ Screw’s seminal Screwed Up Click, breaking out with From Crumbs to Bricks in 1999 and continuing to appear on Screw’s mixtapes until an unfortunate prison sentence put him on lock for the better part of the last decade. [...]

RECORDING | february 2010

HENRY DARRAGH
www.henrydarragh.com
How do you strike the balance between your originals and the standards? I mean, when you’re thinking about recording in advance, do you think about doing a record that’s half and half or do you try and write as much original material as you can?
I don’t think I wrote those specifically for a record; [...]

RECORDING | january 2010

CROSSING TOGO

Do you think the unorthodox nature of you two coming together – meeting on Craigslist – fueled the collaboration?
Ko Nakamura (vocals): We both have our overlaps, but our musical tastes tend to differ a little bit, and I think that really helps bring these two different worlds together as far as putting the music together. [...]

RECORDING | december 2009

TODY CASTILLO | www.todycastillo.com
A Houston institution for much of the last decade, singer/songwriter Tody Castillo has now relocated to Austin. Far be it from the typical reasons that an artist moves there—he actually did it for his family. Not like it hurt his music career, though. Castillo’s sophomore effort, Windhorse, has been drawing accolades both [...]

RECORDING | november 2009

JAS PRINCE
He is the son of legendary Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Prince, and was thus born into Houston’s rap royalty. But even at the young age of 21, he has made it clear that he’s carving out a path other than daddy’s legacy.
So you’ve got a lot of stuff going on. I know you have [...]