The Steve Albini episode of the online music talk show “Soft Focus” has been posted; too bad the host showed up too.
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Steve Albini’s “Tomatillos, ‘pop’ & Neil Young”
Steve Albini champions the independent music seller in a charming Record Store Day ad for Reckless.
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Ian Svenonius, Steve Albini, and Mick Collins all in one room
Ian Svenonius of the Nation of Ulysses and the Make-Up will interview Shellac’s Steve Albini and the Dirtbombs’ Mick Collins on Tuesday, March 24, at the Logan Square Auditorium.
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You can’t pretend that isolation is the same as privilege
Kernels of ideas about Liz Phair.
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Chicago Punk, Vol. 1
Miss out on the birth of the local scene? There’s a new documentary full of baby pictures.
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Albini’s all “whatever” about downloading
Steve Albini: leaks are “harmless” but lame.
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Baseball, Motherhood, and Punk
SHELLAC, MX-80, TAR, SIX FINGER SATELLITE LOGAN SQUARE AUDITORIUM, SEPTEMBER 4 A sign tacked up in the women’s bathroom of the Logan Square Auditorium says that the hall is available for “weddings, anniversaries, showers, fashion shows, parties, private functions, fundraising, etc.” I guess the Pine Tar .406, a musical extravaganza put on by local indie-rock […]
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Scrawl
What sets Scrawl apart is its reductionist approach. The guitar trio builds its songs around a few carefully rendered details rather than a lot of big flashy gestures; even when guitarist Marcy Mays hits air-guitar-worthy metallic chords, Scrawl is mercifully free of egotistical showboating.
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Whenever They Call You “Friend”: Urge vs. Touch and Go/Schmitsville
Urge Overkill, 1990/When they were in with the indie crowd
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New pop order
Recently metal has become infused with the spirit of punk. What had been a stagnant genre full of empty pomp and vapid posturing has become a valid form for populist statements of alienation. Young bands with something to say began to look to Black Sabbath instead of the Sex Pistols for musical inspiration, and gradually, […]