Agnello produces new Dino Jr. album! SY album too?
 

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This week is gonna rule!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2008
Fasten your seatbelts, mother f**kers!
Okay, so here's what we have this week. Obviously, Tuesday is huge!!!! I am sitting on pins and needle about this election.

If John McCain wins, we are fucked. This country cannot handle another 4 years of the Theological Capitalism of the Bush regime. More wars, more tax cuts for the rich and more deregulation. Unfortunately, the middle of this country is full of either morons, religious fanatics or just plain evil bastards. Take your pick. So we'll see how it plays out. But I've got my fingers crossed.

So, I'm lucky enough to leave first thing Wednesday morning to go to Amherst to help start the new Dinosaur Jr. album!!!! Fuck yeah!!!!!! I cannot wait to get up there.

So I get to spend two days with the boys and then hurdle back to New York to try to see a bit of the greatest show on earth! The Drive By Truckers/Hold Steady show at Terminal Five. That is gonna be crazy!!!! And then I get to do that on Friday again. And I'll have a whole Hamilton Park, Jersey City posse in tow!!!!

So if that's not enough, on the Saturday following, can you guess who I'm starting a record with. Think about it. I've worked with them before. Hmmm.

That's it for now!!!!!!!

I'm speechless.

And not necessarily the good kind of speechless.

Apparently "one-off" means nothing.

he's more of a tape op rather than a "producer" in an artistic way. Nothing to worry about i guess. Then again i miss Jim o' behind the board.

even Wharton Tiers would have been good... He's more "hands in the tunes".

I hope he won't produce next sy album, I want something other!

who the hell is he?

John Agnello is a producer, recording engineer and mixer who has been involved with many influential albums throughout the last 25 years. Most recently, John has been involved with The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, The Living End, Drive-By Truckers and The Ponys, to name a few.

The Hold Steady, Stay Positive, 2008
The Living End, White Noise, 2008
Jennifer O’Connor, Here With Me, 2008
Madrugada, Madrugada, 2008
The Hazey Janes, Hands Around the City, 2008
Thurston Moore, Trees Outside The Academy, 2007
Turbonegro, Retox, 2007
Dinosaur Jr., Beyond, 2007
My Midnight Creeps, Histamin, 2007
The Ponys, Turn the Lights Out, 2007
Son Volt, The Search, 2007
Oxford Collapse, Remember The Night Parties, 2006
The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America, 2006
Andrew WK, Close Calls with Brick Walls, 2006
Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped, 2006

*wikipedia.

^^^here's what he has recorded and or mixed.

he did the breeders head to toe! i fucking love that tune!

The term 'producer' is kinda in flux these days...

Hell Folk amongst Friends: An interview with John Agnello
by Moshe Levy, 2007

I guess by "producer" he means that he does the electronic programmation over which they're going to rap, right?

hmmm, it seems like it's SY, but we will see. isn't it bit early tho.?

even though he comes across as a nice dude, i wish he would give up producing.

so what exactly does a producer do when it comes to sonic youth?
i dont think he has much to do with the music itself

I have no problem with the sound of either beyond or rather ripped.

the producer doesn't really affect the songs, but he affects the sound of the album: cleaner (as in Rather Ripped), dirtier, punchier, noisier, etc etc etc... it depends of the producer

why?

cheers Moshe! great morning read, I think Agnello is pretty sound.