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Soft Crest, and the Great Steve Albini Cook-Off

by A New Band A Day on Thu, 2011/05/19 - 9:30am

 

Steve Albini has a cookery blog. Yup, that Steve Albini. Steve “Big Black/In Utero/Don’t-you-dare-call-me-a-record-producer” Albini.

The blog is – guess what – uncompromising and excellently executed.

Steve likes yellow cornmeal: “fuck it, polenta is terrific.” Steve serves his chutneys warm, regardless of convention: “fuck me I’m not going to spray it with liquid nitrogen.” Steve simply doesn’t have time to make vegetable stock: “Vegeta is the shit.”

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Today's New Band - Special Benny

by A New Band A Day on Mon, 2009/10/05 - 8:00am


A bands’ sound matters. Well, it doesn’t, of course - this is rock and roll, yeah? - but it does. Look: as much as Steve Albini insists he’s a recording engineer, simply allowing a band to sound as they themselves desire, and not acting as their producer, he can’t ignore artists repeatedly choosing him in the hope a bit of that wonderful Albini sound - and there is one - rubs off onto their work too.

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