| Speaker bio | Casey Rae-Hunter is a musician, recording engineer, journalist and editor. His music writing has appeared in Washington City Paper, Dusted, Signal to Noise, Grooves, and Seven Days Newspaper. He attended university for jazz guitar at 16, but spent most of the 1990s toiling in the indie music trenches, fronting and/or playing guitar for a list of bands too long to mention. He made the transition to studio rat around 2000. Since then, he has mixed and mastered numerous releases in genres ranging from power-pop to technical metal. As a music journalist and critic, he has profiled some of the leading figures in both underground and mainstream music, including Antony & the Johnsons, Mike Watt, The Books, Lindsey Buckingham, Animal Collective, Jolie Holland and Built to Spill. He currently writes and records under the moniker The Contrarian. |