# Charles Newman (music producer)

Charles Richard Newman (born January 16, 1967) is an American record producer, recording engineer, composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, talent manager and music publisher. He is the co-founder of New York City's Mother West Records and Studios, The Deli Magazine, and the band PLEASE, who enjoyed minor success when their single "Here It Comes Again" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Empire Records. Most notably he has been working as the main engineer, mixer and co-producer for Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields since his initial work on the critically acclaimed 69 Love Songs. He has also produced, mixed and engineered work by artists such as Flare, Gospel Music, Tom Shaner, Jon DeRosa, Dylan Trees, The Davenports, Lauren Molina, Soko, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Aloud, and, Peppina. Newman began co-managing the Seattle based rock band Motopony in 2015 accompanying the band on their tour of the United Kingdom, and assisting in production on their live EP “Naked at the Abbey” with producer Rob Cass.

## Record credits

| Year | Title | Artist | Credits |
| 1994 | Noreally Thanks | Please | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1995 | The Electric Living Room | Please | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1995 | Empire Records Soundtrack | Please | W/A |
| 1996 | Here it Comes Again 7" | Please | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1997 | Sentimental Watermelon | Please | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1997 | ‘’Bottom’’ | Flare | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1998 | The Ton-Ups | The Ton-Ups | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1999 | ‘’H2O’’ | F.T.T.W. | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 1999 | ‘’69 Love Songs’’ | The Magnetic Fields | Engineer |
| 1999 | ‘’Speedial’’ | Kecam | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2000 | ‘’Circa’’ | Flare | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2000 | ‘’Speaking of the Davenports’’ | The Davenports | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2000 | ‘’Til Summer Ends’’ | Bela | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2000 | ‘’Waiting’’ | Thursday | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2001 | Morning One EP | Aarktica | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2001 | Definitive | Flare | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2002 | …or you could just go through your whole life and be happy anyway | Aarktica | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2002 | The Future Bible Heroes | Eternal Youth | Engineer |
| 2003 | ‘’Pure Tone Audiometry’’ | Aarktica | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2003 | ‘’Hung’’ | Flare | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2003 | Stay Off your Heels | Earlymay | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2004 | i’’ | The Magnetic Fields | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2004 | Run to Be Born | The Walking Concert (featuring Walter Schriefels) | Engineer |
| 2005 | ‘’High Tech Lowlife’’ | The Davenports | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2005 | Ceramic (EP) | Ceramic | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2006 | ‘’The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events’’ | The Gothic Archies | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2006 | East Side Story | Maximum Penalty | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2006 | Showtunes | Stephin Merritt | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2006 | Just What You Wanted | John LT | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2007 | Matchless Years | Aarktica | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2007 | ‘’Lullabye School’’ | Kris Gruen | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2007 | ‘’Little Answers EP | Earlymay | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2007 | Raise High | Radio America | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2007 | ‘’Far From Home’’ | The Bowmans | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2008 | ‘’Side By Side’’ | AM | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2008 | ‘’Franklin Ave’’ | Austin Hartley-Leonard | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2008 | ‘’Charlie Horse EP’’ | Dylan Trees | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2008 | ‘’Distortion’’ | The Magnetic Fields | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2008 | ‘’Exit Music’’ | Bela | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2009 | ‘’In Sea’’ | Aarktica | Mixing |
| 2009 | ‘’Cut’’ | Flare | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2009 | What's Up Clown (Single) for Yo Gabba Gabba | Black Kids | Mixing |
| 2009 | ‘’Film Noir (EP)’’ | Bela | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2010 | ‘’Future Sons & Daughters’’ | AM | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2010 | Duettes EP | Gospel Music | Mixing |
| 2010 | Coraline (Original off Broadway Cast Recording) | Stephin Merritt | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2010 | ‘’Part of it All’’ | Kris Gruen | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2010 | ‘’Sea for Two’’ | Lauren Molina | Engineer, Producer, Mixing, Writer |
| 2010 | Gonna Be Alright (single) | Lauren Molina & Jeremy Jordan | Engineer, Producer, Mixing, Writer |
| 2010 | ‘’Realism’’ | The Magnetic Fields | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2010 | The Past Ain't Far | Ceramic | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | Big Top/Encore | Flare | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | How to get to heaven from Jacksonville, FL | Gospel Music | Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | ‘’Anchored EP’’ | Jon DeRosa | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | ‘’The Visitation’’ | Mandala | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | ‘’I Thought I Was An Alien’’ | SoKo | Engineer, Producer |
| 2011 | Why the Great Gallup | The Davenports | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | ‘’Get Real or Get Gone EP’’ | Tom Shaner | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2011 | ‘’Art Deco Smiles’’ | Bela | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’Three Times of the Day’’ | Dylan Trees | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’A Wolf in Preachers Clothes’’ | Jon DeRosa | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’New Comics from the Wooded World’’ | Kris Gruen | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’Ghost Songs Waltzes and Rock & Roll’’ | Tom Shaner | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’Headlines and Firefights (EP)’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’LA’’ | Earlymay | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’Suburban Superstar’’ | John LT | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2012 | ‘’We Are all Pieces of Heaven’’ | Lilamayi | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2013 | ‘’Goodbye To All That (single)’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2013 | ‘’Down (single)’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2013 | ‘’Memories of Love, Eternal Youth and Partygoing’’ | The Future Bible Heroes | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2013 | ‘’Signs of Life (single)’’ | Jon DeRosa | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2014 | ‘’It’s Got To Be Now’’ | Aloud | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2014 | ‘’Michelada (single)’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2014 | ‘’Dark Was the Yearling’’ | The Bones of J.R. Jones | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2015 | ‘’Black Halo’’ | Jon DeRosa | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2016 | ‘’Used Melodies’’ | Soft News | Mixing |
| 2016 | ‘’Spirits; Furnace’’ | The Bones of J.R. Jones | Engineer, Mixing, |
| 2016 | ‘’Futile Games in Space and Time’’ | Evripidis and His Tragedies | Mixing |
| 2016 | ‘’Love Ain’t For Me’’ | Christine Castanon | Engineer, Producer, Mixing, Writer |
| 2017 | ‘’Fire’’ | Peppina | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’50 Song Memoir’’ | The Magnetic Fields | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’2008 (single)’’ | Kris Gruen w/ Jim and Sam | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’Fact 200’’ | Soft News | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’The Only Way Out is Down’’ | Soft News | Engineer, Producer, Mixing, Arrangement |
| 2017 | ‘’Tear Down the Maps’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’Boson of Love’’ | Jane Telephonda | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’The Come On’’ | The Come On | Mixing |
| 2017 | ‘’Alison James’’ | Cold Blood Club | Engineer, Producer, Mixing |
| 2022 | ‘’No One Tastes Like You (single)’’ | Litvar | Mixing |
| 2023 | ‘’Eloquently Aimless’’ | Litvar | Producer, Mixing |