Sean Slade is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with artists including Hole

Hole (band)

Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...

, Radiohead

Radiohead

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, Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

, Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield , is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

, Dinosaur Jr., Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded three albums for Rockville...

, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...

, The Boo Radleys

The Boo Radleys

-Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:-External links:* * * * * * by Laurent Orseau * *...

, Sebadoh, Lush

Lush

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, the Go-Go's

The Go-Go's

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, and The Dictators

The Dictators

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 among others. In 2005 he produced The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls

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' second album Yes, Virginia, released in 2006. He recently produced Kim Boekbinder

Kim Boekbinder

Kim Boekbinder is a Canadian-born musician who rose to prominence as one half of the "junk-store cabaret" duo, Vermillion Lies. She has since embarked on a solo career, releasing her debut solo album The Impossible Girl in 2010....

's first solo album, "The Impossible Girl." He usually works with production partner Paul Q. Kolderie

Paul Q. Kolderie

Paul Q. Kolderie is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, and The Go-Go's...

.

After graduating from Yale

YALE

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 university, Sean and Paul moved to Boston

Boston

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. In 1985, he helped create Boston's Fort Apache Studios

Fort Apache Studios

Fort Apache Studios is a New England recording studio internationally renowned for alternative rock sessions produced there since 1986. The studio is currently located in the village of Bellows Falls, Vermont in space leased in an old hotel called The Windham, owned by the town of Rockingham,...

 with then Sex Execs bandmates Paul Q. Kolderie and Jim Fitting, as well as musician/producer Joe Harvard. Sean also served a lengthy stint as rhythm guitarist and sometime singer and songwriter of the Boston indie band Men & Volts.

Slade also worked with seminal Boston area artists Buffalo Tom and the Pixies. Both bands originated from UMass Amherst, as did J. Mascis and Dinosaur Jr.