Thom Monahan

Thom Monahan is an American record and scripted drama audio producer, engineer and musician. He has worked with artists including Fruit Bats, Devendra Banhart, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, and Peter Bjorn and John.

Career

Monahan began his career playing bass with the Lilys. He earned his first credit as a producer on the Scud Mountain Boys' debut album, Dance The Night Away. Following the release of the album, Scuds singer Joe Pernice asked him to play bass for his newly-formed band, Pernice Brothers.In addition to playing live and in the studio, he produced, engineered, and mixed the band's 1998 debut album, Overcome by Happiness.

Monahan began working with artists in the San Francisco folk scene after moving to California in 2005. He worked frequently at the Hangar in Sacramento, where he first Banhard, and at his home studio in Los Angeles, where he recorded artists including Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Fruit Bats, and Vetiver, and recorded the music for the 2010 film Ceremony.

As a co-producer, Monahan and Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson worked on Vagabonds, the first solo album by Jayhawks singer Gary Louris, which features vocals by Jenny Lewis, Susanna Hoffs and Jonathan Wilson. Monahan also co-produced the Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion album Bright Examples with Andy Cabic.

In 2012, Monahan collaborated with Fujiya & Miyagi on a remix of the Moebius & Plank track, "Conditionierer," which was featured on Who's That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank. The same year, he mixed a cover of Betty Davis' "If I'm in Luck I Might Get Picked Up" by Iggy Pop and Zig Zags, which was featured in a series issued by Light in the Attic Records.

As an engineer and mixer, Monahan is credited on albums by Neko Case, Bedouine and Nina Persson.

Songs produced by Monahan have appeared on such television shows as Weeds, Parenthood, Skins, Grey's Anatomy, and Entourage. The Peter, Bjorn and John song "If I Was A Spy," used in the children's show Yo Gabba Gabba!, was engineered and mixed by Monahan.

Monahan married journalist and author Shirley Halperin in 2004.

Selected discography

References

External links

• Mix Magazine interview