December 2012 Newsletter

Live From Bad Racket Release: Part 2 Tonight at Mahall’s in Lakewood, Max, Tom, Joe, and Jordon are playing some music for everybody. This show we intended on being geared toward the more acoustic music featured on the live from bad racket series, but I hear Tom has written some new songs with his cousin…

Shoulda called it a soundtrack…Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation

Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation   A few days ago I sent a message to a friend of mine confirming the date and time for an upcoming video shoot. We’ve done over 20 videos now, enough to make the process feel ordinary… but what’s cool about that is that when I’m excited for the next…

November 2012 Newsletter

  The Bad Racket Comp It’s finally here, this compilation features the audio tracks from the first 12 videos in the “Live From Bad Racket” video series. The bands are really diverse, but all of them are special to us and important to this incredible music scene growing up in Ohio right now. Much love…

Let’s Get Down To Business

So maybe you’re here looking at BadRacket.com because you want to record here. Maybe you’ve already recorded here. Maybe you’ve never recorded here and don’t have any desire to – you’re just checking out this fancy new website. Either way, you’re probably here because recording music is of interest to you. Did you know that…

Does kickstarter suck?

Does kickstarter suck? Tom wants to know. I just read this interview with Eric Victorino from the Limousines and Matt DeMello – “some bitter stranger on the internet” The Limousines are raising money with Kickstarter, This Matt dude goes on a rant in the interview with them about how kickstarter is terrible and the bands…

Filmstrip Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio

Filmstrip Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio Cleveland Live From Bad Racket is a monthly music video series featuring artists performing at the Cleveland based recording studio. Filmed / Directed by Aaron Freeder Guest Film Crew: 216 Studios, Michael Carissimi and Richard Walsh Audio Engineered at Bad Racket Recording Studio   Genre Indie Rock Sophomore…

What is a Record Label?

Is Bad Racket a Record Label? No. Not really. But were starting a non-profit entity communityartsandmusic.org Bad Racket is a recording studio that sometimes does things to help bands that might classify us a label, but we really don’t know. We’ve asked the question “What is a record label?” to a thousand people or more,…