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John Vanderslice
John Warren Vanderslice (born May 22, 1967) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording engineer. He is the owner and founder of Tiny Telephone, an analog recording studio in San Francisco and Oakland, California.
Vanderslice has released nineteen full-length studio albums and five remix records and EPs on Dead Oceans and Barsuk Records. He has collaborated with musicians such as the Mountain Goats, St. Vincent, and Spoon.
Vanderslice grew up in rural North Florida before his family moved to Maryland when he was 11. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Maryland, where he also studied art history. In 1990, he moved to San Francisco, where he supported himself as a waiter while taking classes at the University of California, Berkeley, with the intention of becoming an English teacher.
Vanderslice spent five years as a member of the experimental band Mk Ultra, with whom he released three albums in the 1990s. The last of these, The Dream Is Over, received a 9.2 rating from Pitchfork.[citation needed]
In 1997, Vanderslice founded Tiny Telephone, a 3,000-square-foot, two-room recording studio in the Mission District of San Francisco. Originally used as a rehearsal space, it was later developed into a full-time, all-analog recording studio. Bands who recorded at Tiny Telephone include Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, Okkervil River, Deerhoof, the Mountain Goats, the Magnetic Fields, Tune-Yards, and Spoon.
The original San Francisco studio closed in 2020, with Vanderslice stating that despite being fully booked year-round, it was no longer financially sustainable. However, the Oakland location of Tiny Telephone, which opened in 2015, remains in operation.
In 2000, Vanderslice released his first solo album, Mass Suicide Occult Figurines, gaining brief national media attention for the single "Bill Gates Must Die." He orchestrated a hoax claiming that Microsoft had threatened legal action over the song. In reality, Vanderslice faced manufacturing difficulties due to the album's artwork, which resembled a Windows installation disc, causing at least one manufacturer to hesitate over potential legal repercussions. During the controversy, he was interviewed by Spin, Wired, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Time Travel Is Lonely (2001) and Life and Death of an American Fourtracker (2002) followed, with Cellar Door released in 2004.
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John Vanderslice
John Warren Vanderslice (born May 22, 1967) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording engineer. He is the owner and founder of Tiny Telephone, an analog recording studio in San Francisco and Oakland, California.
Vanderslice has released nineteen full-length studio albums and five remix records and EPs on Dead Oceans and Barsuk Records. He has collaborated with musicians such as the Mountain Goats, St. Vincent, and Spoon.
Vanderslice grew up in rural North Florida before his family moved to Maryland when he was 11. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Maryland, where he also studied art history. In 1990, he moved to San Francisco, where he supported himself as a waiter while taking classes at the University of California, Berkeley, with the intention of becoming an English teacher.
Vanderslice spent five years as a member of the experimental band Mk Ultra, with whom he released three albums in the 1990s. The last of these, The Dream Is Over, received a 9.2 rating from Pitchfork.[citation needed]
In 1997, Vanderslice founded Tiny Telephone, a 3,000-square-foot, two-room recording studio in the Mission District of San Francisco. Originally used as a rehearsal space, it was later developed into a full-time, all-analog recording studio. Bands who recorded at Tiny Telephone include Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, Okkervil River, Deerhoof, the Mountain Goats, the Magnetic Fields, Tune-Yards, and Spoon.
The original San Francisco studio closed in 2020, with Vanderslice stating that despite being fully booked year-round, it was no longer financially sustainable. However, the Oakland location of Tiny Telephone, which opened in 2015, remains in operation.
In 2000, Vanderslice released his first solo album, Mass Suicide Occult Figurines, gaining brief national media attention for the single "Bill Gates Must Die." He orchestrated a hoax claiming that Microsoft had threatened legal action over the song. In reality, Vanderslice faced manufacturing difficulties due to the album's artwork, which resembled a Windows installation disc, causing at least one manufacturer to hesitate over potential legal repercussions. During the controversy, he was interviewed by Spin, Wired, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Time Travel Is Lonely (2001) and Life and Death of an American Fourtracker (2002) followed, with Cellar Door released in 2004.
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