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Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA (Google Maps)

Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Dave Grohl is a busy guy. For Sound City , he gathered such artists as Stevie Nicks, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield and many more to talk about their experiences recording in the studio, with its legendary Neve sound console -- and to record a new album in the studio.

The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival last week, and will be playing for one night only at the Mayan Theatre at 7 pm.

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Thursday, January In advance of that showing, here are of ten great albums that were recorded at Sound City. The message "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" can be found on the sleeve of this album -- it's a great example of the kind of music recorded at Sound City. One of the first -- and one of the few -- bands to successfully merge rap and metal, Rage Against the Machine broke new ground with this debut album, which merged social and political lyrics with angry sound. Often found on lists of great albums,. A supergroup by definition, A Perfect Circle sounds like anything but a side project.

This band is just as ambitious as anything Billy Howerdel has ever worked on.

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The video for the first single, "Judith," was directed by David Fincher, director of. Practically an ode to musicians before them, like The Beatles and The Who, the members of Cheap Trick took a page or two from music history and made it their own with their third album,. They may not have created a new genre or changed the world of music forever, but the craft and execution was undeniable.

This album combines the hallmarks of their first two: the raw and powerful chords of their debut and the pop harmonies of their second effort. Most cover songs are just, well, cover songs. But when Johnny Cash covered a song, it became so much more -- both an honor to the original songwriter and an appropriation of his work.

We catch glimpses of the power of Cash's covers on this album, the second volume of his American Recordings series. The album also includes such Cash originals as "Country Boy. Legend has it that this album was recorded as the soundtrack to an unmade film with the same title. Young reportedly read a screenplay written by Dean Stockwell and Herb Berman and asked if he could make the soundtrack; although the script has since disappeared, Stockwell has said it was going to be an "end-of-the-world" sort of film, which might explain the surreal quality in some of the tracks.

Weezer's second album didn't get as much attention as its debut at first, but that's just part of the process of becoming a cult classic.

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The only reason he still had a record deal, in fact, was due to the persistence of his manager, Joe Gottfried—who owned Sound City. Springfield had another life-changing experience at the studio, however; he met his wife, Barbara, when she worked there answering phones, and stole her away from another rocker recording at the site: Peter Frampton.

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Springfield appears in the teaser trailer, and will surely make the final cut of Sound City , if only due to one of the collaborations that Vig mentioned—in this case, a wildly unlikely effort between Grohl, Springfield, Josh Homme and Queens of the Stone Age. That alone might be worth the price of admission.

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