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WHO: Matthew Ellard

WHERE: finishing up the new Ad Frank album at Q Division

RECENT GIGS: A former staff engineer at Fort Apache during Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie’s glory days, Ellard has this year produced the quietest disc in town — Tanya Donelly’s Whiskey Tango Ghost (4AD), on which he made her husband, Dean Fisher, strip to his skivvies for a bass take because the mike kept picking up the sound of his jeans rustling — and the loudest, Converge’s You Fail Me (Epitaph). Also: Bury Your Dead’s Cover Your Tracks (Victory), and Elliott Smith’s "Pretty (Ugly Before)" from Basement on a Hill (Epitaph).

UPCOMING GIGS: recently finished the Street Dogs’ forthcoming Back to the World, preparing to record Detroit’s scrambled indie-punk outfit Bear Vs. Shark.

Five Favorite Boston bands:

1) The Pixies

2) Throwing Muses

3) Converge

4) Morphine

5) Rubyhorse