Headgear Studio is an American recording studio based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was founded in 1998 by Alex Lipsen and Dan Long

Dan Long

Dan Long is an Australian music producer from santas workshop, recording engineer, and mixer. With Alex Lipsen and Scott Norton, he founded Headgear Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where artists such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, David Bowie, Son Volt, and The All-American Rejects...

. In 2000, engineer Scott F. Norton joined as a partner and the studio relocated to its current facility near the Brooklyn waterfront. The studio was featured in an article in Tape Op magazine in October, 2008.
Headgear first attracted attention when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist David Pajo, who joined as a touring...

 recorded their 2003 debut album, Fever to Tell

Fever to Tell

Fever to Tell is the debut album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, through Interscope. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder....

, there with producer David Sitek. That album was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Sitek subsequently recorded with his band, TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....

 at Headgear and built the adjoining Stay Gold Studio in the same building.

Artists who have recorded at Headgear include

• All-American Rejects (DreamWorks) with Tim O'Heir (producer/engineer)
• Ambulance LTD
  Ambulance LTD
  Ambulance LTD is an indie rock group formed in Spanish Harlem, New York in 2000. The band was founded by singer and guitarist Michael Di Liberto and Dave Longstreth of Ohio. They were joined by Marcus Congleton, who brought in Andrew Haskell , Aaron Nevezie , and Darren Beckett...
  
   (TVT Records) with producer Ron Schaffer
• Andromeda
• Animal Collective
  Animal Collective
  Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
  
  
• Apache Beat
• Appleseed Cast (deep elm records) with engineer/producer John Agnello
• Au Revoir Simone
  Au Revoir Simone
  Au Revoir Simone is an electronic dream pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, formed in late 2003. The group is composed of Erika Forster , Annie Hart , and Heather D'Angelo...
  
  
• Celebration
  Celebration (band)
  Celebration is a psychedelic soul band based out of Baltimore, Maryland.-History:Celebration is composed of singer Katrina Ford, multi-instrumentalist Sean Antanaitis and drummer David Bergander, with a number of additional rotating members: Walker Teret plays bass, sometimes guitar, percussion and...
  
  
• Chavez
  Chavez (band)
  Chavez is an alternative rock/math rock band from New York, formed in 1993. After a period of inactivity, the band reformed in 2006. They released two independent non-charting albums in the mid-1990s...
  
  
• CocoRosie
  CocoRosie
  CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years...
  
   (Touch and Go Records)
• Cymbals Eat Guitars
  Cymbals Eat Guitars
  Cymbals Eat Guitars is an indie rock band from Staten Island, New York, founded by high school friends Joseph D'Agostino and Matthew Miller. The band's name comes from a Lou Reed quote describing the sound of the Velvet Underground.-History:...
  
  
• Dinner with the Band (IFC)
• Dirty On Purpose
  Dirty on Purpose
  Dirty on Purpose was a four-piece band from Brooklyn, NY, whose music is often described as indie pop or shoegaze. Composed of Doug Marvin , Joseph Jurewicz , George Wilson and DJ Boudreau , the band formed in 2002 and started playing around New York. The band's music is guitar-oriented with...
  
  
• Early Man
  Early Man (band)
  Early Man is a heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York, now based in Los Angeles, California. Guitarist and vocalist Mike Conte began performing under the name "Early Man" in the early 2000s, and when drummer Adam Bennati moved to New York in 2003, the two formed the nucleus for the current line-up...
  
  
• Echosuite
• Entrance
  Entrance (musician)
  The Entrance Band is a band started by Guy Blakeslee . Their style of music has been described as psychedelic rock or stoner rock....
  
   (Tigerstyle Records) with engineer/producer Chris Cody
• Everyothers with engineer/producer Tim O'Heir
• Fireworks Go Up with engineer/producer John Agnello
• Golden Triangle
• Grand Mal
• Grooms
• Heavy Trash
• Heroine Sheiks
  Heroine Sheiks
  The Heroine Sheiks were originally a New York-based Noise Rock band until early 2006, when the band called it quits. In 2008 the band was reformed in Minneapolis, and then only lasting another year. It began in 1999 as a collaboration of Shannon Selberg, George Porfiris, Norman Westberg and John Fell...
  
   (rubric records) with engineer/producer Greg Gordon
• Hot Rod Circuit (Vagrant Records) with engineer/producer Tim O'Heir
• Inouk
• Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. A veteran of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001...
  
   with engineer/producer John Agnello
• Jennifer O'Connor
• Keepaway
• Kevin Devine
  Kevin Devine
  Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York, who is known for alternately introspective and political lyrics and melodic acoustic guitar songs...
  
  
• Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Light Asylum
• Louque (Lava Records)
• Ludlow Lions
• Massive Attack
  Massive Attack
  Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...
  
  
• Meshell N'degeocello
• Miracle of 86 - (deep elm records)
• Muckaferguson - (deep elm records)
• The Naked Hearts
• Parts and Labor
• Pela
  Pela
  Pela was an American indie rock band from Brooklyn known for their intense live performances.-History:Pela's history goes back to the early ’90s when lead vocalist and guitarist Billy McCarthy met Christopher Herb. As best friends they worked at a mall together after dropping out of high school,...
  
  
• Phosphorescent
• Radio 4
  Radio 4 (band)
  Radio 4 is a band from Brooklyn who formed in 1999. They claim that their sound, which has been described as "danceable punk", is "made in New York, is about New York, and sounds like New York"....
  
  
• RaRaRiot
• Ribbons
• Sam Champion
• Sam Winch with producer Rod Sherwood
• Santigold (with producer John Hill)
• Shakira (with producer John Hill)
• Son Volt
  Son Volt
  Son Volt is an alternative country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo.-History:The group formed after Farrar met Jim and Dave Boquist during the final Uncle Tupelo tour. Together with former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, the band rehearsed and...
  
   with engineer/producer John Agnello
• The 1060s
• The Boggs (Arena Rock Recording)
• The Dragons of Zynth
• The Hold Steady
  The Hold Steady
  The Hold Steady is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2004. The band consists of Craig Finn , Tad Kubler , Galen Polivka , Bobby Drake , and Steve Selvidge...
  
   ( Soundtrack for Dylan Movie)
• The Infidels
• The Jealous Girlfriends
  The Jealous Girlfriends
  The Jealous Girlfriends is a rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Their music video for "How Now", directed by Sarah Soquel Morhaim, won first place for the iPod Music Video Contest.-Biography:...
  
   with engineer/producer Dan Long
• The Knife (Remixed by David Sitek)
• The National
  The National (band)
  The National is an indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1999 and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger, a baritone...
  
  
• Tiombe Lockhart
• TV On The Radio
  TV on the Radio
  TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
  
  
• Vic Thrill
  Vic Thrill
  Vic Thrill is the stage name for Billy Campion, former lead singer for The Bogmen, and his supporting band. Just before the breakup of The Bogmen, Vic Thrill began crafting the material that eventually formed his first solo album Blown From the Action, released in 2002...
  
  
• White Magic
  White Magic (band)
  White Magic is a psychedelic folk rock group based in Brooklyn, N.Y., led by singer/guitarist/pianist Mira Billotte.-History:White Magic's original lineup was Mira Billotte on vocals and piano, drummer/bassist Miggy Littleton and guitarist/drummer Andy Macleod...
  
  
• World Inferno Friendship Society with engineer/producer Tim O'Heir
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Zach de la Rocha