totally rad unconventional recording spaces for totally meaningful indie bands (besides a church)

56. a methadone clinic (I have a friend who owns a studio and that's what the building used to be, but it's basically just a typical Baltimore rowhouse and people generally don't know that that's what it once was)

57. a funeral home

58. A crypt.

59. Tutenkhamun's tomb.

sic

60. the infinity room

Would record in all these places.

61. a Martello tower (NB: must be concept album about Ulysses)

62. The Orfield Laboratories Quiet Room.

63. scrooge mcduck's money bin

oh my God I need to be in that Orfield room, fuckin A

There was a thing about the guy who was in there for 45 minutes in the Guardian Weekend this, er, weekend. Sounds hardcore.

64. on an airplane, moments before it crashes and kills the entire band. their final moments would be captured in lo-fi glory on the black box recorder (it would helpful, but not mandatory, if the name of the band was "Black Box Recorder"), and the limited-edition release would be housed in a box designed to resemble the actual flight recorder.

65. The Fortress of Solitude

66. Inside the MCP

Are you aware of this Black Box Recorder?

xxpost

67. A perspex box dangling from a crane.

68. an Ames room

xxpost - yup. but I would be sad if Luke Haines died in a fiery wreck, so nix that, actually.

this is my old band performing inside a box at the museum of contemporary art in chicago as part of an art exhibit
http://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/reviews/velez/velez12-5-07-7.jpg

69. At the sea organ, Croatia.

70. a (un)Convention Center

71. The penalty box at an Edmonton Oilers game

72. My friends and I once plugged in some instruments in the middle of the night at this weird rest area outside Blackfoot, ID; the acoustics were awesome and someone should really take advantage of it

http://itd.idaho.gov/highways/ops/maintenance/RestArea/RestAreaMap/images/northblackfootNB.jpg

Coldplay are recording an album in my colon right now. It's pretty damn uncomfortable, but I endure it knowing that one day this shit will come out.

A "rest-stops of the NJ turnpike tour" could be awesome.

"Live from the Walt Whitman...rest stop"

73. An Orgone accumulator

74. in a hidden corner of a studio where another, more prominent band is already recording. a thousand people will be able to hear Coldplay playing faintly in the background on your band's album, and a million people will be able to hear your band playing faintly in the background on a Coldplay album. instant exposure!

75. A dumbwaiter

76. a sun temple in a lost city

77. the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange

78. Inside someone else's house while also at a party with that person, a la Lost Highway

79. a church

1. a church

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80. a synagogue

81. A different church

82. Eine Kirche

83. a church

84. une église

83. Eine Kirschtorte

84. in a grave

85. a free-range chicken slaughterhouse

...oh sorry that's more of a herbert location

86. up its own ass

84. in a grave

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo8DhbQw_O4

87. Halliburton's corporate headquarters

88. a 1960s cold-war-panic fallout shelter

89. A parking garage next to an empty corporate center in suburban San Diego

90. a magic carpet bag

a soon-to-be-demolished house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_to_Shine_(DVD_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSN_jEORfk