Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini…   Read Story »

Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a…   Read Story »

Steve Albini produced Cloud Nothings' new LP, Attack On Memory, and you get a sense of that immediately via "No Future/No Past," the first track from that release. Gone are the warm melodies of…   Read Story »

A few days ago we mentioned Steve Albini's delicious, detailed food blog, where he cataloged his cooking experiences. Most of the recipes were Italian, and most were lovingly prepared for his wife,…   Read Story »

If you've paid attention to the lyrics of any random handful of Big Black, Rapeman, or Shellac songs, listened to the man's between-song banter, read the zine writing, that Gourmandizer Q&A, or more…   Read Story »

A few years back we hosted Fred Armisen's comedic five part video guide to SXSW 1998. Then we switched video platforms and the clips were swallowed by our system. Whoops! We've finally rescued them…   Read Story »

In a Maximumrocknroll GQ interview this past fall Steve Albini called Sonic Youth an embarrassment, saying he considers them friends, but also considers their jump from an indie to DGC in 1990 as a…   Read Story »

He says that and a lot more in this interview he did with GQ. Albini sat down for the Q&A at ATP NY, it's just surfacing now. (Thanks for the tip, Jason.) As far as Sonic Youth, he says he…   Read Story »

At this point people know what to expect from Kutscher's: The faded Catskills resort's crumbling walls held together by mold, broken everything (we were forced to do our own DIY toilet plumbing,…   Read Story »

ATP was the year's finest festival. We've already covered that. But the band performances are only half the (All Tomorrow's) party. For a weekend, the mountain resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is a…   Read Story »