Indie darlings Maritime recorded their new album at Burst HQ a couple of months ago with Stuart Sikes (Modest Mouse, Cerys Matthews, Cat Powers, Jack White).

We recently discovered this Thank You note from Maritime and Stuart on a drum head box here at Burst HQ… figured we’d share it with you here.

We’re stoked to finally tell everyone where we’ve been for the past few months…

Hidden away in the Lab, experimenting, producing, sweating, listening, programming, tweaking… all in an effort to create an innovative and inspirational web portal for music licensing :

BurstLabs.com

Lime, the groovy new auto-shifting bike from Trek, has a new website… and the music you’ll hear when checking it out is our very own “Wait For Air.”

The Farewell Circuit’s debut EP is out now

Produced by Daniel Holter and Kristian Riley for The Burst Collective, these 5 songs stand out as an incredible debut by a young band on the front edge of their career. Earnest vocals and strong songwriting keep this set from being tossed aside as just another group of kids whining about a life not yet lived. Check out some the new tunes at their myspace page.

at work in Studio A

Work has begun in BurstHQ’s Studio A on 5 new Northern Room songs, with The Burst Collective’s Daniel Holter serving as producer and longtime band associate Aaron Shannon engineering.

Owen Sartori’s song “The Cube” is the leadoff track on the second installment of the OnMilwaukee.com CD sampler, an annual release featuring artists from the Milwaukee area.

Studio A was electric

Studio A at Burst HQ was alive and energized as drum tracks were recorded by our own Kyle White for Eric Benet’s new project. Our good friend and cohort Wesley McVicker came by and laid down some bad ass grooves under the watchful eyes (ears?) of DeMonte Posey (producer).

Studio A was in a holiday mood

Burst HQ hosts mixing session for Willy Porter

Studio A at Burst HQ this month saw Willy Porter mixing his new Christmas song with engineer Vinny Millevolte (a former Burst engineer, as well).

LC from The O.C. heads to L.A. in The HillsMTV has licensed our song “I Wanna Be” for us in the trailer campaign for their hit series The Hills.The show follows LC from the hit show The O.C. as she heads for Los Angeles to make it in the fashion biz.You can check out the trailer at our myspace blog.

7′ Steinway B makes a grand addition to Burst HQ

We recently acquired a legendary Steinway piano, and are eager to use it on our upcoming custom projects and records.

We’re working exclusively with one piano tuner, installing a humidity control system directly in the piano body, and setting up our new baby for a long life making beautiful music… come on by and hear it for yourself!