whartontiers

Wharton Tiers is a NYC underground music legend. He played drums in No Wave band Theoretical Girls with Glenn Branca, toured with Laurie Anderson and led three of his own bands: A Band, Glorious Strangers, and Wharton Tiers Ensemble, which this year released a new LP, Freedom Now!, on Fun City NYC Recordings. At his Fun City Studios, Wharton produced and recorded many of New York's experimental and alternative groups, including Sonic Youth, White Zombie, Swans, Dinosaur Jr., Lunachicks and Glenn Branca. To date he has produced and recorded over 200 LPs and CDs, including Helmet's Meantime, for which he received a gold record in 1993.