One of the hardest-gigging groups in the city’s early-80s jazz-fusion scene reunited in 2016.
Tag: Iain Burgess
Postpunk oddballs the Bonemen of Barumba played ‘barbecue music from hell’
Early-80s weirdos the Bonemen of Barumba attacked pigs’ heads with axes onstage and shared a label with Big Black and the Dead Milkmen.
Chicago techno-pop trio Scarlet Architect reunite for a European tour after 32 years apart
Scarlet Architect’s forthcoming archival release, Eternal Return, includes the 1982 international hit “Rose Grey.”
Artist on Artist: Robbie Fulks talks to Steve Albini
Country polymath Robbie Fulks talks to engineer extraordinaire Steve Albini.
The Albini Files: Surfer Rosa
I’m fascinated by engineers like Steve Albini (and his mentor, Iain Burgess), because the craft of the music engineer remains a beautiful mystery to me, as someone who loves music but only dimly understands the means of production. Which is why I’ve been geeking out this morning about an excerpt from Fool the World: The […]
Letters & Comments: February 25, 2010
“I expect to see many incumbents tarred and feathered on their way out of office in every election henceforth. Good riddance, probably.”
RIP Iain Burgess, Key Architect of the Chicago Postpunk Sound
Iain Burgess, a crucial figure in the development of Chicago’s postpunk aesthetic, has died.