My Disco (second album engineered by Steve Albini), Young Widows, and Phantom Family Halo are kicking off a mid-west tour March 9 at Vernon Club. $7. 18+. 8 p.m. Get ready for a sick show.
The Courier Journal profiled uber-engineer, critic, musician, analog-man-in-a-digital-world Steve Albini in today’s paper. Albini was the guy behind the equipment on seminal albums like the Pixies Surfer Rosa and Nirvana’s In Utero.
Albini has been one of the most outspoken critics of how music is run these days:
That way of doing things is dead and gone, and they haven’t adapted even in the slightest. The big record labels are doomed, and the mainstream music industry is collapsing. I actually find it quite gratifying to see that this is a very active and very positive time for bands on the street level. It’s very easy for bands to promote themselves internationally now, using the Internet. It’s a great time to be in a band. It’s a bad time to be a big ol’ behemoth record label.
Read the whole thing and see Steve’s list of his five fav. albums that he’s worked on here.
Albini’s band Shellac is playing the Jason Noble benefit on the 21st at the 930.
