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 ...

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, ...

Arlington’s Inner Ear Recording Studios is secure in its place in music history, no matter what happens next. The venerated recording music studio tucked away on S. Oakland Street in the Green Valley ...

D.C., DC — It would be fair to call it D.C.’s version of Abbey Road. But after 31 years, a major launching pad for some of the D.C. area's best-known musical artists has closed its doors for good.

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, ...

Inner Ear Studio doesn’t have a neon sign on its door, a flashy building with modern designs or gold records on the wall. What the Shirlington-area studio has is decades of experience recording D.C.

Arlington County will consider buying two pieces of land in South Arlington, near Four Mile Run, to aid plans for an arts and industry district. As ARLnow reports, such a sale would likely mean ...

Don Zientara is known for his ears. I wanted to hear about his eyes. “Right here is a painting by Jay Stuckey, who was a punk rocker in D.C.,” says Zientara, showing me around the control room at his ...