Steve Albini, the indie rock icon who led Big Black and Shellac and is best known for his work as an audio engineer (he didnt like the word producer) on albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died. Pitchfork confirmed with his studio, Electrical Audio, that he died of a heart attack at age 61.
Shellacs first album in 10 years is due next week and they were going on tour as well.
Rest easy, Steve.
He was a great "recordist".Yea, and he was probably the most important figure in alt/underground rock of the past 4 decades tbh
No one made albums sound like him, you feel like you're in the room with the band.
Holy shit. That's a huge loss RIP.This.
Didn't know who this guy was. After a couple minutes I've discovered that he was in a band named "Rapeman" and he is probably a pedo...
Not sure this guy deserves a RIP topic but y'all do... y'all.
Didn't know who this guy was. After a couple minutes I've discovered that he was in a band named "Rapeman" and he is probably a pedo...He was a legend who was able to learn and grow
Not sure this guy deserves a RIP topic but y'all do... y'all.
Didn't know who this guy was. After a couple minutes I've discovered that he was in a band named "Rapeman" and he is probably a pedo...
Not sure this guy deserves a RIP topic but y'all do... y'all.
Didn't know who this guy was.i didn't know either but i didn't come in here just to shit all over his name. who does that lol
I acknowledge and respect what he did for the music industry in the era of grunge (which I dont care much for, but it was a huge and respected era), but that doesnt change what he went on the record to say in The Big Black Final Tour Diary. Idk for sure if he was a pedophile, but what he said was super fucking off color.I posted a link above, but here's the direct link to the interview where he addressed the shitty edgelord stuff he did in the past
I posted a link above, but here's the direct link to the interview where he addressed the shitty edgelord stuff he did in the pastThere are cleverer ways to be shocking.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-culture-interview
tbh there are decades worth of people who had great things to say about him so I believe that 40 years ago it was just an attempt at being shocking or transgressive. Definitely seems like he was willing to listen and change over the years
Damn is this real?Yes. I'm not going to post any links or screenshots, it is incredibly fucking vile and would be modded. It is easy to look up.
god shut the fuck up
Didn't know who this guy was. After a couple minutes I've discovered that he was in a band named "Rapeman" and he is probably a pedo...
Not sure this guy deserves a RIP topic but y'all do... y'all.
wtf I feel something like that would be a permanent taint and well known along the likes of lostprophet. He never got convicted for anything?wouldn't the more obvious explanation then be that he said it to shock and offend, as I said above?
That's why I'm asking. I'm not familiar with him. I can certainly see there being double standards for whatever reason being a possibility so that's why I want him to elaborate on his reasoning.Albini wrote about encountering (openly available) extreme CP in Europe in the early 1980s. Back then he was notoriously edgy and desperate to shock.