Last week, as Knock2 prepared to release his debut album, Nolimit, smoke plumed outside his Southern California crib. The Eaton fire, which has since leveled thousands of structures, was picking ...

Eric “E.T.” Thorngren, whose work as an engineer, producer, and remixer for artists ranging from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to Talking Heads, Squeeze and Kenny Wayne Shepherd kept ...