10/30/2026
Two years ago, Eleanor Laserna survived a stroke, recovered from heart surgery, and decided it was time to pursue the music she’d loved since childhood. What started as a way to heal and find her footing has become a new chapter in her life, with a little help from the San Diego music community and TMC.
She felt her way through “Something Is Better Than Nothing” and wrote it in a single night. Less than three weeks later, it was recorded, mixed, mastered, and released. By the end of its first week, it was her biggest release yet. “It wanted to come into this world,” she said. At TMC, it actually had somewhere to land. “It’s like you got an idea, let’s make it happen.”
A big part of what TMC gave her is room to try things. “It’s a space that’s safe enough to experiment,” she said. “And mistakes can be expensive, but not if they’re at the more affordable prices at TMC.”
They recorded “Something Is Better Than Nothing” in about four and a half hours, and Kevin had the mix back to her in two days. In its first week out, it passed 1,000 streams, the first of her songs to hit that in week one.
Would it have happened without TMC? “No, I don’t think so,” she said. “TMC is just like, ready? Let’s go, let’s do it.”
A few weeks later, she came back to film a live session of the song at TMC. It’s now the video she sends to people booking shows. “You can’t get that anywhere else,” she said. “Not at this price or quality, and not that fast turnaround time.”
And the support didn’t stop at one song. She calls TMC “a one-stop shop,” a place where “you can see the cycle of a song through.” Eleanor’s story is yet another example of TMC’s mission in action. When an artist has a song ready to go, they shouldn’t have to wait months and save up to record it. Affordable studio time, a quick turnaround, and people in your corner… that’s what gets a song out into the world while the feeling is still alive, letting its impact ripple through San Diego and beyond.
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