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Mike Sapone

American record producer

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Mike Sapone
Sapone in Joshua Tree, California, 2022
Background information
Origin	New York, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, post hardcore, pop punk, post-punk, ambient, electronica
Occupation(s)	Record producer, mixer, engineer, composer
Years active	1994–present
Website	mikesapone.com

Mike Sapone is an American record producer, composer, audio engineer, and mixer whose credits include producing records for bands such as Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Boston Manor, The Front Bottoms, Mayday Parade, Grouplove, Anxious, Sincere Engineer, Sorority Noise, An Horse, Oso Oso, O'Brother, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and Public Enemy.

• August 2023: The Front Bottoms play Colorado's iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre for "You Are Who You Hang Out With" album release show with Say Anything and Kevin Devine.

• March 2022: Oso Oso's “Sore Thumb” receives Pitchfork’s “Best New Music" honor for the second time in 3 years. Mixed by Mike Sapone.

• October 2021: EA Sports NHL 22 Soundtrack Playlist Reveal includes Grouplove’s “Scratch” off of the band's “This is This” LP. Mixed by Vince Ratti and Mike Sapone.

• May 2020: Kerrang Magazine deems GLUE "Sleek yet somber, visceral yet vulnerable, confident yet cathartic. Boston Manor explores modern life on an exceptional third album." Rating: 5 of 5 K's.

• August 2019: Pitchfork awards Oso Oso's "Basking in the Glow" with its prestigious "Best New Music" honor. Produced and Mixed by Mike Sapone.
• 2018: Boston Manor's genre-defying "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" slots #3 on Rock Sound Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2018. The album's lead single "Halo" climbs into the top ten countdown on SiriusXM's Octane.
• 2017: Sapone earns his first No. 1 Album and third top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart with Brand New's "Science Fiction."
• 2017: Pitchfork awarded the album with its "Best New Music" merit. The website also awarded the song "Same Logic/Teeth" with the "Best New Track" honor.
• August 2016: Brand New's "I Am A Nightmare" tops the UK Official Vinyl Singles Chart at Number 1 while Brand New's "Mene" earns the Number 2 slot.
• 2015: Sapone earns his first No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums chart simultaneously with Mayday Parade's "Black Lines."
• Other Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 include Taking Back Sunday's "Happiness Is," and in 2009, Brand New's "Daisy" debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and was featured on the Best Albums of 2009 lists from SPIN, Kerrang!, and Rock Sound magazines.
• Sapone also produced Brand New's critically acclaimed "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me," which was included in NME's Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade and received a 5-star review entitled "America finally gets their own Radiohead" from Alternative Press magazine.

Sapone's combined discography has logged over 400 million streams on Spotify.

• You Are Who You Hang Out WithbyThe Front Bottoms (2023)
• Fireplace by Sincere Engineer (2023)
• DancerbyBorn Without Bones (2022)
• SunsignbyAnxious (2022)
• Where You BeenbyAnxious (2022)
• Sore Thumb by Oso Oso (2022)
• TheresabyThe Front Bottoms (2022)
• This Is ThisbyGrouplove (2021)
• In Sickness & In FlamesbyThe Front Bottoms (2020)
• GLUEbyBoston Manor (2020)
• Basking in the Glow by Oso Oso (2019)
• Modern Air by An Horse (2019)
• Welcome To The NeighbourhoodbyBoston Manor (2018)
• YarnbyMcCafferty (2018)
• Science FictionbyBrand New (2017)
• RitualbyEnvy on the Coast (2017)
• You're Not As As You ThinkbySorority Noise (2017)
• Tidal WavebyTaking Back Sunday (2016)
• AerobedbyCymbals Eat Guitars (2015)
• Panic StationsbyMotion City Soundtrack (2015)
• Black LinesbyMayday Parade (2015)
• Sad Strange Beautiful DreambyJohn Nolan (2015)
• Happiness IsbyTaking Back Sunday (2014)
• HeadswellbySainthood Reps (2013)
• DisillusionbyO'Brother (2013)
• Nothing To Be Gained HerebyNK (2013)
• Heat Thing by Shone (2013)
• Twelve YearsbyDaytrader (2012)
• InvictabyHit the Lights (2012)
• Garden WindowbyO'Brother (2011)
• Feel You're DifferentbyLights Resolve (2011)
• Lars Attacks!byMC Lars (2011)
• MonoculturebySainthood Reps (2011)
• ScatterbrainbyThe Xcerts (2010)
• The NarrativebyThe Narrative (2010)
• LowcountrybyEnvy on the Coast (2010)
• Punk Goes Classic Rock by Various artists (2010)
• I Was Trying To Describe You To SomeonebyCrime in Stereo (2010)
• HeightbyJohn Nolan (2009)
• DaisybyBrand New (2009)
• Flesh by Robbers (2009)
• New Best FriendsbyMansions (2009)
• This Gigantic Robot KillsbyMC Lars (2009)
• Selective Wreckage by Crime In Stereo (2008)
• Ultra Hot VolcanobyMen, Women & Children (2008)
• The Digital Gangster LPbyMC Lars and YTCracker (2008)
• Mansions EPbyMansions (2008)
• (Fork and Knife)byBrand New (2007)
• This is a LandslidebyIntramural (2007)
• Crime In Stereo Is Dead by Crime In Stereo (2007)
• The Needles The SpacebyStraylight Run (2007)
• The Devil and God Are Raging Inside MebyBrand New (2006)
• Men, Women & ChildrenbyMen, Women & Children (2006)
• The Troubled Stateside by Crime In Stereo (2006)
• The GraduatebyMC Lars (2006)
• Split CdbyI Am the Avalanche (2005)
• Prepare to Be WrongEPbyStraylight Run (2005)
• Elektra The Album Soundtrack by Various Artists (2005)
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland by Various Artists (2005)
• The Early November/I Am the Avalanche Split EP (2005)
• Nightmare of YoubyNightmare of You (2005)
• Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack by Various Artists (2004)
• Straylight RunbyStraylight Run (2004)
• The Laptop EPbyMC Lars (2004)
• Warped Tour 2004 by Various Artists (2004)
• Where You Want to BebyTaking Back Sunday (2004)
• Deja EntendubyBrand New (2003)
• Warped Tour 2003 by Various Artists (2003)
• Taste The XbyUltra X (2003)
• RevolverlutionbyPublic Enemy (2002)
• MTV Road Rules, Volume I by Various Artists(2002)
• Your Favorite WeaponbyBrand New (2001)
• The "Tell All Your Friends" DemobyTaking Back Sunday (2001)
• Lightweight RevolutionbyThe Lightweights (1998)
• Jamaican Bonghits EPbyThe Lightweights (1997)
• Little Bit Of Life EPbyThe Lightweights (1996)
• Stuttering JohnbyStuttering John (1994)

TV show soundtracks: Lethal Weapon, The Blacklist, Smallville, Sons Of Anarchy, Stargate Universe, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Friday night lights, Access Hollywood, Wife Swap, Girls Behaving Badly, E! True Hollywood Story, and The ESPN ESPY awards.

Video Games: Guitar Hero 5, Burnout Paradise, Burnout Dominator, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, 2006 FIFA World Cup and NHL 2004.

Sapone has also worked, produced, engineered and mixed for the following artists, among others:

• Bad Books
• Boston Manor
• Brand New
• Crime In Stereo
• Cubic Zirconia
• Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw)
• David 'Skully' Sullivan Kaplan (Razorlight)
• Denver Dalley (Statistics, Desaparecidos)
• Envy On The Coast
• Every Avenue
• Good Old War
• Intramural
• I Am The Avalanche
• Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup)
• Jeff DaRosa (The Exit, Dropkick Murphys)
• John Nolan
• Kevin Devine
• KRS-One
• Lights Resolve
• Mansions
• Matt Morris
• MC Lars
• Men Women & Children
• Mike Kennedy (Vision Of Disorder)
• Moving Mountains
• Nightmare Of You
• O'BROTHER
• Ocean Is Theory
• Public Enemy
• Robbers
• Robyn
• Sainthood Reps
• Silent Majority
• Straylight Run
• The Dear Hunter
• The Movielife
• The Narrative
• Taking Back Sunday
• The Xcerts

• Brand New on Purevolume
• Mike Sapone Homepage
• Public Enemy Homepage