Steve Albini Way received its official designation during a ceremony featuring his widow Heather Whinna, Kim Deal, Electrical Audio staff, and others in Chicago on Monday. The public event drew a large crowd of fans and friends to the stretch of West Belmont Avenue that flanks Albini’s Electrical Audio studio …
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If Kim Gordon’s first-ever Grammy nominations for her current album, The Collective, intrigued anyone enough to investigate her former band, Sonic Youth, they will be given the perfect opportunity to do so when a rare live recording is officially released next year. Hold That Tiger, recorded at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro …
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To commemorate what would have been Steve Albini‘s 62nd birthday, some of the musicians and people who knew him best — including PJ Harvey, Mogwai, and Shellac drummer Todd Trainer — have been posting tributes to the late Shellac frontman and acclaimed recording engineer on Monday. Albini’s widow, Heather Whinna, …
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Chicago indie label Touch and Go Records has announced a social media campaign to celebrate the legacy of Steve Albini on what would have been the late producer’s birthday on Monday, July 22. “Though we tragically lost Steve Albini on May 7, 2024, his indelible influence on music remains. Let’s …
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During her Primavera performance this past weekend, PJ Harvey paid tribute to late musician and recording engineer Steve Albini, dedicating a rendition of Uh Huh Her’s “The Desperate Kingdom of Love” to him. “I would like to sing this next song in memory of Steve Albini,” she said. “Steve should …
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Forget the Platonic ideal, Shellac have always aspired to the sardonic ideal. On a ditty cheekily titled “Chick New Wave” — off To All Trains, the noise-rock group’s sixth and final album following the recent death of its singer-guitarist Steve Albini — we hear Albini hector, “I’m through with music …
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For nearly two decades, Shellac have made an annual appearance at a least one iteration of Primavera Sound. The rock band fronted by Steve Albini were scheduled to appear at the music festival when it returns to Barcelona next week, but their performance tradition came to a sudden end when …
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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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Joanna Newsom paid tribute to Steve Albini — the engineer on her acclaimed 2006 album Ys — during the singer’s set Friday at Utah’s Kilby Block Party. Stereogum reports that prior to Newsom’s performance of “Cosmia,” one of the Ys tracks she recorded with Albini, the singer gave an emotional …
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Foo Fighters paid tribute to Steve Albini — who worked with Dave Grohl on Nirvana’s In Utero — Thursday night at the band’s concert in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long …
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