Olivier, Bobby. «How this Nutley artist became New Jersey’s latest music pioneer», NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 21, 2016. «The EDM bleed has paid dividends for Mike Volpe, a Nutley native better known as Clams Casino, who has become one of the most sought-after digital designers in hip-hop’s experimental universe…. 'It’s great, how easy it is to get stuff out, and make music at home and all the sudden people everywhere can hear it,' he says, from his home in Hasbrouck Heights…. The Nutley High School grad first began to tinker with beats as a teen, fooling around with basic keyboards and synthesizers, much simpler ones than the machines now scattered around his basement home studio.»