Steve Albini

Steven Frank Albini (born July 22, 1962) is an American audio engineer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, and Flour, and is currently a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner, and engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex located in Chicago, and has worked with Nirvana among many other alternative acts. He was married on September 5, 2009 in Kaʻaʻawa, Hawaii[1]

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Today's New Band - Special Benny
A bands’ sound matters. Well, it doesn’t, of course - this is rock and roll, yeah? - but it does. Look: as much as Steve Albini insists he’s a recording engineer, simply allowing a band to sound as they themselves desire, and not acting as their producer, he can’t ignore artists repeatedly choosing him in the hope a bit of that wonderful Albini sound - and there is one -...
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Popular Workshop
Photo by shadyadie   Living in London, keeping company with Art Brut, and jetting off to Chicago to record a debut album with famed producer Steve Albini is fake do-it-yourself indeed. And Popular Workshop has no qualms about admitting it. They’ve certainly had a great deal of help. DIY be damned, I say. What does it even mean in a digitally dominated world, anyway? The band’s...
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A Casa Verde - Terry de Castro
A Casa Verde is the debut solo album from The Wedding Present’s American bassist and confirmed Anglophile Terry de Castro. The twelve songs contained on the record are all cover versions, each one originally written and performed by a friend or previous musical collaborator. Released via frontman of The Wedding Present David Gedge’s label Scopitones, it is an album that is...
No Shouts No Calls
Band name: Electrelane Label: Too Pure Teaser: Steven Belfrage reckons the latest album from Electrelane is a return to form… Pull quote 2: Delay pedal drums and girly chants, it represents the side of the band that will never truly surrender to individual song comfort. First para: Electrelane return to a more traditional songwriting style with their...
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