What ultimately brought Big Black to a halt? He was a hero of mine. He was in Naked Raygun when I started out, and they were my favourite band. After we made that decision, it became clear that it was the right time to quit, because we started to see all these meatheads latching onto the band. We wanted to remain forever alien to the cognoscenti. The name of the band was obviously an inexcusable, indefensible mistake, but at the time I was deaf to those criticisms.
I was in a privileged position in that I was a dude surrounded by other dudes who were keen to encourage each other to do transgressive things, and it seemed like there was a boundary that people would not go beyond, and I decided to go beyond that. We made good music and we operated in a way that was fair and generous to everyone we dealt with, but I regret choosing that name.
Was that a deliberate attempt to step away from the spotlight, such as it was at the time? The whole time I thought I might need to go back to my old job, or find another one, but here we are, 30 years later. Working with Nirvana, did Kurt Cobain seem like a special talent?
So I never pressed him for any personal intimacy. But I got to see him at work, and I saw that he was extremely serious about his music, and his passion was genuine. I grew to respect him as an artist and as a person. The fall-out over the recording of In Utero — with R. I was persona non grata with the big record labels, and I had a rough financial year after the release of that record, because my work with artists on those labels all dried up. Between the city's roiling punk scene and the birth of house, marked a pivotal year for Chicago music.
March 24 Though best known as a studio wiz, Steve Albini has also carved-out a place as one of music's most confrontational artists over the last 30 years while fronting Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac. Jason Heller ranks his finest work as a bandleader. July 30 Does using social media tools to advance your music career necessitate turning yourself into a brand? September 21 As a recent online kerfuffle indicates, Sonic Youth's biography resists easy ideological classification, and suggests the nature of "indie" does as well.
October 11 Welcome to The Year in Photos, Pitchfork's second annual roundup of our favorite snapshots of the past 12 months.
Albini first learned to play bass guitar while he was at home recuperating from a broken leg, and soon switched over to guitar. He first heard the Ramones while riding in a school bus during a field trip; they immediately became his favorite band and he soon immersed himself in punk rock, playing in a band in Missoula called Just Ducky. After completing high school, he enrolled at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he majored in journalism and minored in art.
Living close to Chicago, he dove into the city's punk scene, and played in several local bands including Stations and Small Irregular Pieces of Aluminum. Albini would also regularly contribute his writing to a number of fanzines like Forced Exposure and Matter. A piece he wrote in for the Chicago journal The Baffler, "The Problem with Music," would develop a life of its own as a widely distributed screed against major-label business practices. Wanting to launch a band of his own, Albini borrowed a four-track recording unit from a friend and taught himself to use it as he cut an EP.
On it he played guitar and bass and sang, with a drum machine handling percussion and a friend adding saxophone. Big Black would later evolve into a full band with a singularly harsh, confrontational sound with the addition of Santiago Durango on guitar and Jeff Pezzati on bass both members of Chicago punk icons Naked Raygun , while Roland the Drum Machine still kept the beat. Dave Riley took over on bass, and they recorded a pair of celebrated albums, Atomizer and Songs About Fucking before breaking up.
Albini recorded half of Songs About Fucking in an eight-track studio he assembled in his basement, and began recording other bands such as Urge Overkill , End Result , and Dark Arts. California Ave. Despite his notoriety as a musician and sound engineer, he figures not one Chicagoan in a thousand would recognize his name. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email required.
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