When Inner Ear Studios in Arlington closed last October after more than 30 years at their South Oakland Street location, owner Don Zientara weighed his options, looking to potentially rent another ...

The legendary Inner Ear Studio has reopened in the founder’s Arlington Heights basement. Last week, the recording studio’s founder Don Zientara spoke at length to the Embracing Arlington Arts podcast ...

Many in the D.C.-area music scene let out a collective wail when news broke in 2021 that Inner Ear Studio, the Arlington recording studio that helped launch many of the region’s top punk, post-punk, ...

D.C., DC — It would be fair to call it D.C.’s version of Abbey Road. But after 31 years, a major launching pad for some of the D.C. area's best-known musical artists has closed its doors for good.

Anyone who thinks peer pressure only happens to teenagers has never been in a recording studio. On a Friday evening in early September, a couple of punks are pressuring Michael Reidy, former lead ...

Inner Ear Studios—the famed Arlington, Virginia studio that helped solidify the careers of Bad Brains, Fugazi, Minor Threat, and other Washington, D.C.–area bands—is shutting its doors in October, ...