STEVE ALBINI

i wasn't really following this 'controversy;' seemed pretty clear from me from reading the email exchange that there was no beef between these guys. is that what people were going with?

Apparently Steve Albini said something grumpy and rockist about music. News.

Just breaking

RIP, loved his work with Garbage and Shania Twain

I don't know who the fuck Steve Albino is

guitar player in Todd Trainer's band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FYWcn8mL0

Come on though, Albini being all disco sucks in 2015 is like if Adorno wrote to Brotzmann in 1967 warning him of the perils of hot jazz and gramophone records: 'it might be the music of black liberation but I hate those men in spats, I hate their gin joints, I hate their Charleston dancing and their funny hair and their ukeleles, but most of all I hate their stupid zigga-zagga-zizzle singing!'

I don't think Albini is saying "disco sucks" so much as "Information Society sucks"

I always imagined he was thinking about early Ministry/Waxtrax stuff

His why-disco-sucked post is upthread a bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=413&v=Oem6gEEajZU

^^"song with the sample

His why-disco-sucked post upthread is a bit ...

anyway everybody otm itt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-albini/why-i-havent-had-a-conventional-christmas-in-20-years_b_8614568.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact

Disco hater

teared up a lil at that tbh

xp

Steve once did something incredibly sweet and thoughtful for me and I asked him " if yr such as asshole how come you do such nice stuff for people" and he said "I dunno...irony?"

Damn, I kinda want to hug Steve Albini.

If you haven't heard it, I implore everyone here to check out Helen Money's latest record, which was recorded by Mr. Albini. She's part
of a wave of avant-garde cellists (see Julia Kent and Zoe Zkeating) who is really expanding my conception of what said instrument is capable of

i take back whatever shit i said about fred armisen

I first learned about his Letters To Santa tradition in the late 90s, too bad about the post office not letting them access that mail anymore. They should just redirect them to his house! Cool that Second City has done so much to raise funds.

Here's an excellent, long interview: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_650_-_steve_albini

http://www.listenlistenlisten.org/stevealbini/

He's OK, then?

Oh, yeah, sorry - he's OK. But it's a fascinating interview, imo.

Maybe the best of its sort since that Ian MacKaye one that went around last year.

yeah I found that v interesting to read. to my knowledge (which probably has many gaps) it's the only time he's been put on the spot about 'Jordan, Minnesota' since the 80s?

Has anyone ever taken him to task for Run N***** Run or (apparently, I've only ever seen this as an aside) praising Skrewdriver?

I'm pretty sure he has an excellent answer to any questions about his past, so I don't think it's really worth asking him. He's very well-spoken.

I have no idea about either of those things, but I seem to recall the original incarnation of the latter bunch of national front assholes being not racist.

that is the case yes

they are mentioned along with a dozen or so other acts in the liner notes to 'Sound of Impact' as examples of abrasive music he likes

I'm only sharing this cuz I'm in the article

http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-music-mastermind-behind-1000-bands/76847

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVDZV133kw

That's hilarious.

"Let's go after this song"

that fucking rules

2007 AMA on a poker msg board:
http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=11034555&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

Are we celebrating its 10 yr anniversary? He does good Q&A.

I have pretty much always had a weird guitar sound. My early heroes were Johnny Ramone, Ricky Wilson, Keith Levine, Santiago Durango, Colin Newman and Andy Gill. I later came to appreciate (steal from) Billy Gibbons and Wilco Johnson as well.

I love how he used Urge Overkill as a stock answer for any "worst band/most difficult to work with/overrated" type questions.

Also, being the thirtieth reference to McLusky in this thread, it threatens to trivialize them in the way the rest of us hope to trivialize Urge Overkill.

I think you're a defeatist and you are destined not to enjoy music. If you wait for other people to thrust music under your nose, you'll be listening to nothing but crap for a long while, because that's what gets thrust at us. Music is not a spectator sport.

'I want Iggy to be as rich and popular as Justin Timberlake'

Rich, okay, but what benefit is it to the world to have douchebags and Justin Timberlake fans listening to Iggy Pop? Not everything is for everybody, and I don't think everything is universally improved if you lay it on with a ladle.

This is fun, drumming podcast interview with Albini and his BB era drum machine - http://www.thetrapset.net/134-roland-steve-albini-big-black-rapeman-shellac/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vjn8u7HP1o

Steve Albini is down to heads up (ie last two players left) to win a championship bracelet at the World Series of Poker. (H/T @pkmonaghan) pic.twitter.com/m9BSKIxXul

— Marc Masters (@Marcissist) June 17, 2018

Really appreciating that Cocaine Piss shirt

apparently he won

http://www.wsop.com/images/imagestore/flashlarge/Steven_Albini_2018_WSOP_EV31_Final_Table_Giron_8JG5835.jpg

I don't understand any of this but it seems, uh, mighty clever?

https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-31-1500-stud/chips.216758.htm

Wow - https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-31-1500-stud/
https://pnimg.net/lrep/1966/80/b1c5ebd78fb.jpg

This is incredible

I read an interview once saying that poker is at least partially responsible for keeping Electrical Audio afloat.

so awesome, first WSOP winner in a Cocaine Piss band t shirt haha

Amazing.