"If a Studio Doesn’t Fly a Flag, They’re Dead."

t goes without saying that today’s music space is hypercompetitive - mainly as a result from the near zero barriers to entry. Virtually anyone can record an album, distribute, tour, and sell product directly to fans.

“I don’t think there’s anything negative about that,” says John Vanderslice, founder of Tiny Telephone, a professional recording studio in San Francisco.

Under the Radar - Death Cab for Cutie cover

“I hesitate to say that it’s an electronic record, because I think that means something in contemporary terms that this record isn’t. But if I said in 1978 that we were making an electronic record, I think that’s sort of what it is.” – Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla