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Steve Albini Goes Off on Sonic Youth - News

Photo by Ryan MuirYou gotta give it to veteran producer and former Big Black/current Shellac frontman Steve Albini-- dude is indie as fuck. So indie, in fact, that he recently told GQ that he considers...

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Steve Albini Has a Blog About Cooking - News

Photo by Ryan MuirAs the Awl points out, the legendary Chicago recording engineer, Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac frontman, and card sharp Steve Albini can now add yet another occupation to his resume: Food...

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Echo Chamber: Steve Albini - News

Photo by Ryan Muir"Most TV cooking is repulsive. Frathouse cocksuckers with gimmick hairdos and catch phrases, hooting and hi-fiving, 'bringing it,' celebrating gluttonous sports bar chow. Dipshits...

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Echo Chamber: Steve Albini - News

Photo by Ryan Muir"New York has a couple of characteristics that are undeniable and one of those is that it’s a magnet for assholes who couldn’t get any attention at home and decided that the problem...

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Cloud Nothings Talk "Aggressive" New Steve Albini-Produced Album - News

Photos by Ryan ManningMP3:Cloud Nothings: "Stay Useless"Dylan Baldi began his Cloud Nothings project as a lo-fi pop endeavor in 2009. But his forthcoming Steve Albini-produced album Attack on Memory,...

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Steve Albini Slams Amanda Palmer for Asking Fans to Play in Her Band for Free...

Photo credit: Palmer by Shervin Lainez and Albini by Ryan MuirFor those of you not following the recent path of former Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer, a little primer: The latest iteration of...

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Steve Albini, Amanda Palmer: The Fight Continues - News

Photo credit: Palmer by Shervin Lainez and Albini by Ryan MuirAmanda Palmer's decision to crowdsource some of her live instrumentalists and pay them in beer has gotten her a lot of flack in the last...

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Albini Shares More Amanda Palmer Thoughts, Palmer "Resists the Trolls" With...

Photo credit: Palmer by Shervin Lainez and Albini by Ryan MuirCan someone please just lock Amanda Palmer and Steve Albini in a room and not let them come out until they've made peace with one another's...

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Echo Chamber: Steve Albini on Jason Molina - News

Photo by Steve Gullick"I loved hearing Jason Molina sing. He was a genius at turning a phrase and making it into something more than the words in it. Jason was almost supernaturally prolific, and...

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Echo Chamber: Steve Albini on Nirvana's In Utero - News

Photo by Ryan Muir“All of the people that were carping at the band from the outside about what a mistake they’d made with this record, that pretty accurately represented what they wanted to do with...

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Watch Steve Albini on Famous Cat Lil Bub's Show - News

Veteran producer and music-industry talking head Steve Albini is not impervious to the charms of very famous internet cats. Today he appears in a new episode of "Lil Bub's Big SHOW", the web series...

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Steve Albini Taught a Cooking Class - News

Photo by Ryan MuirAs we've reported before, Shellac front man and producer extraordinaire Steve Albini is a cooking aficionado. Yesterday, he hosted a cooking workshop at Pop Montreal.

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Steve Albini E-Mail About How Much He Hates Dance Music Turned Into Billboard...

Diagonal label boss Oscar Powell also releases music as Powell via XL. His latest single, "Insomniac" (coming soon on XL), features a vocal sample from Steve Albini that dates to his time fronting Big...

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Powell Responds to Steve Albini Billboard Craziness in New Interview - News

Earlier this week, XL bought a billboard in London (that's it above) to promote new Powell single "Insomniac". The billboard featured an email the producer received from Steve Albini, concerning...

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Powell Turns Steve Albini's Anti-Dance Music Email Into Video for...

Powell has shared the video for "Insomniac", his new single that samples Steve Albini's vocals. The video takes the form of Albini's now-notorious email to the producer, in which he authorized the...

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Steve Albini Chats About Disco, the Pixies, and Iggy Pop on "WTF With Marc...

On the latest episode of "WTF With Marc Maron", Marc Maron welcomed Steve Albini to his garage. The two of them talked about Albini's high school days in Montana, his father's engineering career, and...

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Steve Albini and Ian MacKaye Interview Each Other About Their Long Shared...

Steve Albini and Ian MacKaye have interviewed each other on the newest episode of Kreative Kontrol, a podcast run by music journalist (and Pitchfork contributor) Vish Khanna. You can listen to the...

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Steve Albini Writes Essay About Delivering Christmas Gifts to Needy Families...

Photo by John Bohnen, courtesy of Touch and Go Records.For almost 20 years, Steve Albini and his wife, Heather Whinna, have spent their Christmases delivering gift parcels to needy families in the...

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Article: Bad Moon Rising: The Practical Lessons of Sonic Youth - Feature

As a recent online kerfuffle indicates, Sonic Youth's biography resists easy ideological classification, and suggests the nature of "indie" does as well.

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Article: This Year's Model - Feature

Eric Harvey looks at what Amanda Palmer's crowdsourcing approach says about music, marketing, and DIY in 2012. Does using social media tools to advance your music career necessitate turning yourself...

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Lists & Guides: Steve Albini's 10 Best Records - Feature

Though best known as a studio wiz, Steve Albini has also carved-out a place as one of music's most confrontational artists over the last 30 years while fronting Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac. Jason...

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Steve Albini Analyzes His Career From a Feminist Perspective - News

LISTEN is an organization that "exists to spark and cultivate a conversation from a feminist perspective around the experiences of marginalised people in Australian music." In a new post, site founder...

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Yearbook: Yearbook: The Chicago House and Hardcore Revolutions of 1984 - Feature

Between the city's roiling punk scene and the birth of house, 1984 marked a pivotal year for Chicago music.

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Yearbook: Yearbook: Beyond Rock—The Heyday of Chicago’s ’90s DIY Scene - Feature

In 1993, bands like Tortoise and the Jesus Lizard, venues like HotHouse and Lounge Ax, and labels like Touch and Go and Bloodshot turned Chicago into a bastion of musical adventurousness.

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Steve Albini, Kim Deal, Mike Watt, More Appear in New Indie Rock Documentary...

Where It Begins: 1977-2000is a new documentary that follows “the rise of American independent music through a midwest college music scene.” Directed by John Isberg, it features interviews with producer...

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