Steve Albini

Free Will Astrology: January 23-29, 2013

The Least Likely Music Headlines of 2013

For the last six months, the Sound of the City Supercomputer (a 1998 Compaq Presario) has been analyzing the structure and content of every pop news headline in the world in order to create a highly detailed predictive model of the music industry. While this project has important practical uses, suc ... More >>

Cloud Nothings

Live: Shellac Mixes Jokes, Questions, And Baseball Talk With Songs Like "I Came In You" At The Bell House

Shellac w/Helen Money The Bell House Monday, October 3 Better than: Bawling indie-rock wuss tears as Jeff Mangum sings a Neutral Milk Hotel weeper. For the second year in a row, Chicago post-punk veteran goliaths Shellac graced The Bell House stage for two post-All Tomorrow's Parties hangover show ... More >>

Q&A: Helen Money's Alison Chesley On Her One-Woman Cello Band, Covering The Minutemen And Touring with Shellac

If any one-woman band can eclipse the delightfully volatile presence of Steve Albini and his stature in the annals of Amerindie rock and scrumptious food bloggery, it's the cerebral and dissonant classi-punk Helen Money, who's opening for Shellac at the Bell House tonight and tomorrow night. Helen M ... More >>

Live: Portishead And Jeff Mangum Come Out Of The Shadows In Asbury Park

All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror Asbury Park, NJ September 30-October 2 Better than: Your favorite worn-out band tee. Timelessness isn't a foresight. Most experiences can't predict their own longevity, and as much as any creator strives to avoid miring his or her work in a dated exterio ... More >>

Shellac

The 20 Greatest Bread Quotes of All Time

www.insightbb.com​Well, maybe not of all time -- how far back does the world's literature really go? And we blush to note that most of these quotes come from Western sources, at that. But read on anyway, because some of them are pretty damn funny, or at least pithy and philosophical.

Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest

A brief history of indie rock's best worst-named band

Today's Probably Inevitable Nostalgia-Related Development: Bush Is Playing The Bowery Ballroom Next Month

Here is what your fetishism for the alt-rock era has wrought, aging Gen-Xers: Bush, the grunge-era band fronted by the very pretty Gavin Rossdale and responsible for at least one great song ("Swallowed," from the 1996 Steve Albini-engineered album Razorblade Suitcase, as seen above), will headline ... More >>

Steve Albini Has a Food Blog

Steve Albini, not cooking food.​Steve Albini is one of the music world's most renowned and prolific recording engineers: he's made his mark on an estimated 1,500-2,000 albums from the likes of Nirvana, the Pixies, Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Low, Joanna Newsom, and Jarvis Cocker. He's also ... More >>

Joan of Arc

Week in Review: Weezy Freed

Welcome to my life, Weezy.​So Lil Wayne is finally a free man. Perhaps a lonely free man, but a free man nonetheless. It's been a hell of a two weeks for the law around here, in all honesty. After last week's barrage of club closings, this week brought news of yet more: 171 Lombardy was raided ... More >>

Download: Grandfather, "Tremors"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Hey, don't take our word for it. Here's Steve Albini singing the praises of New York indie-snarl trio Grandfather in GQ of all places: "There was a band that came into the studio a while back called ... More >>

Scout Niblett

Your Guide to All Tomorrow's Parties New York 2010, Which Still Has Tickets Available

Rebecca SmeyneWelcome back. The third All Tomorrow's Parties New York begins tonight. Jim Jarmusch is the curator. Christopher R. Weingarten is your official historian. Shellac are your house band. Barry Hogan is your host. And if you enjoy life, you should go. There's still time.

Week In Review: "You Died! Luckily This Is Just A Video Game."

​In a week wherein we bid adieu to both Fat Beats and Paste magazine, we needed something to fill the void, be that the Das Racist video game or, far less pleasantly, a glowering, shirtless Rick Ross. Good thing this one's over with.

Q&A: Steve Albini Is Not an Asshole But Sylvester Stallone Might Be

Presenting your All Tomorrow's Parties NY House band. . . In the early 2000's, the shits 'n' giggles folks at snarkier-than-thou Chunklet Magazine plopped recording engineer god and Shellac guitarorrist Steve Albini on its cover, screaming: Is This Guy The Biggest Asshole In Rock? That infamous is ... More >>

Shellac

Your All Tomorrow' Parties New York 2010 Video Sampler Is Here

Apologies in advance for how loudly this SOTC contributor will bang the All Tomorrow's Parties NY drums for the next two-plus months, but there really aren't many, if any, better music festivals in the United States. (All due respect, Bonnaroo, but no.) At ATP NY, you're nestled in a remote part of ... More >>

All Tomorrow's Parties NY 2010 Additions: Shellac and the Greenhornes, A Cincinnati-Born Trio Who Coincidentally Includes Two of the Raconteurs

Today brings more confirmations for the three-day line-up of the Jim Jarmusch-curated All Tomorrow's Parties New York. Adding to the stellar list of Explosions in the Sky, Raekwon, Sonic Youth, the Breeders, Fucked Up, Girls, and the Stooges doing Raw Power are Shellac (credited in the press relea ... More >>

Video: Definitive Version of "She's Pretty" by Hall & Oates

Someone told us about a Hall & Oates song called "She's Pretty." We'd never heard of it, and it doesn't turn up in their discography, so being big fans we rushed to seek this rarity online. This is the only thing we could find. We assume the slightly out-of-key singers are not Daryl and John, an ... More >>

Wedding Present to Play 1989's Bizarro In Its Entirety In the U.S. In April

​As part of what David Gedge's band is billing as a "21st anniversary tour." This follows a 2007 tour in which the band also played their debut, 1987's George Best, in full--so maybe we can count on a Seamonsters tour in a couple years? Bizarro is a weird one in this band's catalogue--post C86 ... More >>

Adam Lambert Outrage Strategy Working, Gets Him Bounced from GMA

​That Adam Lambert AMA phoney-baloney outrage thing is working! Good Morning America has cancelled the free Hudson Theatre performance they were going to sponsor. "Given his controversial American Music Awards performance," says a GMA spokesperson (referring, we assume, to the rather perfunc ... More >>

Freaks Of The Industry II: Wednesday's CMJ Panels, Cynically Summarized

It still holds up. Yesterday's installment was apparently helpful, so: CMJ has a ton of afternoon music-industry panels. Here's Wednesday's lineup. Join us now as we distill them to their respective essences.

THE PRESENT, TOMORROW

Psychedelic lineup ushers back ATP

This Week's Voice: Vivian Girls, All Tomorrow's Parties, Mike Judge's Extract, 'Mondo Fandom' at Anthology, and More

Hm, that ghost up there in the top left corner looks familiar. Vivian Girls photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes one more round with The Vivian Girls, and comes away from their record release show a sweatier and more fulfilled man. Christopher R. Weingarte ... More >>

An Oral History of All Tomorrow's Parties

In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk

On the Magnolia Electric Co.'s Fleeting New Single "It's Made Me Cry"

Jason Molina once made spooky, indelibly lonely music as Songs: Ohia--enormously sad, occasionally gospel-inflected compositions that pillaged country and Hank Williams and Will Oldham but didn't quite sound like anything but themselves. Then, sometime around 2003, he formed the Magnolia Electric Co ... More >>

Jarvis Cocker Wants To Get the Beard Questions Out of the Way Now, Okay?

Jarvis Cocker, ever the gangly, dapper showman, grew a beard last year. Very exciting development in the world anglophile sex-nerd appeal, we know. And so Jarvis Cocker's Beard has become a thing in and of itself--a la Natalie Portman's Shaved Head--and treated as an eccentric novelty, like a thir ... More >>

Interview: The Wedding Present's David Gedge

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

All Tomorrow's Parties: Kutsher's Country Club Smells "Like a Fart Gave Up"

Photos: Die! Die! Die! at Music Hall of Williamsburg [03.29.08]

Goodbye to Punk Planet

Sailing the Seas of Ys

Joanna Newsom is nobody's pixie, sprite, bear, fairy, or folk freak

All The World

Not Spyro Gyra, just a hip-hop band throwing a world party

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Babies on Fire

Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood

Our Band Is Your Life

That Misty Mountain Was Mount Everest, Dun

The Last Hypocrite

From Safety to Where

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

DIY or Die

Takin' it to the Sheets

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The Long Haul

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