Steve Albini was an icon to many people, and his work and life was often synonymous with Chicago, the city he called home in his adult life — where he began recording musicians, built his Electrical Audio studio, and established his own bands Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac, all of …
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Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango remembered his bandmate Steve Albini as a “caring and giving person” whose sudden death earlier this week “has left a huge hole in my life.” In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Durango said the news of Albini’s death from a heart attack at the …
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Steve Albini, the noise-rock pioneer with Big Black and Shellac who also helped engineer some of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time — Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa among them — has died at the age of 61. Staff at Albini’s Electrical Audio recording studio confirmed …
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In six short years, Big Black pushed underground rock to become edgier, more stomach-churning, and more pyrotechnic. On the handful of EPs and two full-lengths, Atomizer and Songs About Fucking, they released, Steve Albini, who died Tuesday, wrote about everything from child abuse to murderous gangsters and always with a …
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Steve Albini, the producer of Nirvana’s In Utero and singer-guitarist in bands like Big Black and Shellac, won his second World Series of Poker bracelet Friday night at the annual tournament. Albini, who won his first WSOP bracelet in 2018 in the Seven-Card Stud event, emerged victorious from a field …
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