Steve Albini

Steve Albini’s Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound Grade: B

CD Review: High on Fire - Death Is This Communion

Macworld and Beyond: Independent Musicians and Digital Recording

Liz Phair taking 'Exile' in S.F.

Samples

Recordings

Moon Rocks

The otherworldly sounds of Tortoise and the Sea and Cake

High on Fire

Death Is This Communion (Relapse)

Shellac

Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch and Go Records)

The Last Time We Reunite (Except for That Next Time)

Sometimes it's so damn hard to be a Slint fan

Noise Pop Tip Sheet

Dump the Dandy Warhols for Dead Meadow

The Past Imperfect

Joanna Newsom redefines lost languages

Nina Nastasia

(Fat Cat)

Stealing riffs and loser beats

(Fat Cat)

Indie Dim Sum

The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

Hear This

Electrelane proffers that come close/go away rock; punk paragons the Leaving Trains do the "all original members" thing

The Battle of the Bullshit

For the members of indie supergroup Battles, the real fight lies in not letting their heavy pasts overshadow their bright futures

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

For the members of indie supergroup Battles, the real fight lies in not letting their heavy pasts overshadow their bright futures

No Sympathy for the Demo

Presenting SF Weekly's definitive guide to making it in indie rock, without actually having to make it

Flame On

Having conquered the Bay Area, Oakland metal monolith High on Fire sets its sights on the entire nation

Nash Bridges the Gap

Nash Kato and Urge Overkill were aping cock rock way before the Darkness. Now they're back to reclaim the title.

Darken the Corners

With the release of The Hoop, Crime in Choir is poised to become your new favorite scary instrumental band.

Cheap Trick

Special One

Love Plus One

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

Uneasy Listening

Oxbow drags experimental rock into the heart of darkness

Sound Advice

Ancient slack-key, futuristic sex slaves, and time-spanning schizophrenia

The Lunatic Fringe

Neurosis brings its loud and crazy friends to town for the Beyond the Pale festival

The House of Tudor

Flogging Molly, Los Mex Pistols del Norte, Reid Paley

Psychotic Reaction

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Hear This

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Riff Raff

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Night + Day

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Reviews

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Love, Albini Style

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Racket

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Recordings

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Recordings

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Recordings

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Recordings

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Samples

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Recordings

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Rick Froberg takes the straight road in Obits

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Steve Albini is built for the long haul

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

Blaze of Glory

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Manna from MONO

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

High on Fire polishes its metal weaponry

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Reviewing Noise Pop headliners' new CDs

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Small Black: Show Preview

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Steve Albini on Mario Batali, Ham, Slider-Lust, Olive Oil, and Why Cooking Isn't At All Like Engineering a Record (Except Maybe It Is)

Cássio Abreu/Wikimedia​Legendary audio engineer (don't call him a producer) and Shellac frontman Steve Albini eschews name brand technology in the studio, despises digital. He's analog; this is common knowledge, championing the visceral over the virtual. As a stalwart traditionalist, he's as ... More >>

"The Vow": Love Story Moves Despite Cliches

Cássio Abreu/Wikimedia​Legendary audio engineer (don't call him a producer) and Shellac frontman Steve Albini eschews name brand technology in the studio, despises digital. He's analog; this is common knowledge, championing the visceral over the virtual. As a stalwart traditionalist, he's as ... More >>