Eric Palmquist is a LA based record producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. He is known for his ongoing relationship with Bad Suns as well as Josh Klinghoffer projects Dot Hacker and Pluralone, in addition to productions with Thrice, Wavves, MUTEMATH, HUNNY, The Mars Volta, Tate McRae, and Half Alive.

Palmquist grew up playing piano, cello, and percussion in the school orchestra. In high school he learned guitar and started playing in bands in college, where he ended up changing his major to music. He started producing and made a demo for one of his college bands right out of college, and got signed to Warner Music through Machine Shop Records. They wrote 60 songs, got shelved, and nothing ever happened with that band, but made connections and learned a lot about how the studio works. He then interned at the studio Orange Whip in Santa Barbara where he learned from Angus Cook and Tom Flowers working on punk rock records, and was introduced to the Frank Huber book "Modern Recording Techniques". After cutting his teeth starting to produce for friends and small local artists, he decided to start pursuing producing and engineering as a career in 2003.^[1]

Palmquist started working with Bad Suns in 2014 on their EP "Transpose" and first album Language & Perspective. He would continue his work with Bad Suns, producing, engineering, and mixing nearly all of their releases including Disappear Here, and Apocalypse Whenever. He has also contributed keyboards and songwriting to many of their collaborations. In 2015 he took over and purchased his own recording studio in LA, Palmquist Studios.^[2] He worked with the Band Thrice on their 2016 album, To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere and their tenth studio album, Palms in 2018. In 2018 he produced the band Half Alive first hit single "still feel." off of their debut studio album Now, Not Yet (2019). In 2020 he produced the song "Tear Myself Apart" for Canadian singer Tate McRae, which he co-wrote with Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell. In 2025 he produced The Hart, the fourth album for the band Grayscale.

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