When Inner Ear Studios in Arlington closed last October after more than 30 years at their South Oakland Street location, owner Don Zientara weighed his options, looking to potentially rent another ...

Inner Ear Studios—the famed Arlington, Virginia studio that helped solidify the careers of Bad Brains, Fugazi, Minor Threat, and other Washington, D.C.–area bands—is shutting its doors in October, ...

Anyone who thinks peer pressure only happens to teenagers has never been in a recording studio. On a Friday evening in early September, a couple of punks are pressuring Michael Reidy, former lead ...

Henry Rollins, a friend of Minor Threat, during the band’s first recording session at Inner Ear Studio. (Courtesy Skip Groff) For all the punk-fueled emotion packed into music recorded at Inner Ear, ...

Many in the D.C.-area music scene let out a collective wail when news broke in 2021 that Inner Ear Studio, the Arlington recording studio that helped launch many of the region’s top punk, post-punk, ...

First things first: Don Zientara wants to make it clear that the building had always been lousy. The squat, one-story structure leased by Inner Ear Recording Studios — walls plastered in tour posters ...