{"id":7656,"date":"2024-05-08T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2024-05-08T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:21:12","slug":"steve-albini-chicago-music-legend-dies-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=7656","title":{"rendered":"Steve Albini, Chicago Music Legend, Dies At 61"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Source: Block Club Chicago By\u00a0Gwen Ihnat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The owner of Electrical Audio studio was famous for engineering and producing a number of iconic records, as well as for starting bands like Big Black and Shellac, among others.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RAVENSWOOD \u2014 Legendary rock icon Steve Albini has died. The 61-year-old died of a heart attack, confirmed by staff at Albini\u2019s recording studio, Electric Audio, 2621 W. Belmont Ave., Pitchfork reported Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Albini was famous as the recording engineer (a term he preferred over \u201cproducer\u201d) of such groundbreaking records as Nirvana\u2019s \u201cIn Utero,\u201d the Pixies\u2019 \u201cSurfer Rosa,\u201d The Wedding Present\u2019s \u201cSeamonsters,\u201d P.J. Harvey\u2019s \u201cRid of Me\u201d and several records by The Jesus Lizard, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albini also played in his own iconic bands, including Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac, which was set to tour this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Pasadena, California, Albini moved to the Chicago area to attend Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism, where he began writing music criticism and working at local record stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He formed Big Black in 1981, followed by Rapeman in 1987 and Shellac in 1992. Shellac\u2019s upcoming release \u201cFor All The Trains\u201d was to be the band\u2019s first in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albini was a frequent presence on the Electrical Audio Forum message board and on Twitter, where he described himself in his bio as a \u201crecording engineer who plays billiards and poker, and eats like a viking \/ I reflexively block blue check accounts and promoted tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albini most recently lived in the Ravenswood Gardens neighborhood. He told the Columbia College blog \u201cIn the Loop\u201d<\/a> why he stayed in Chicago in a 2017 interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of bloodthirsty competition in Chicago. In places like New York and L.A. the cost of living is so high and the the notion of \u2018industry\u2019 is much more cemented. In L.A. there is a pop music industry, in New York there is a pop music industry, and there\u2019s competition to be part of that. The competition to beat other people to the brass ring or whatever, and I never get that feeling in Chicago.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Block Club Chicago By\u00a0Gwen Ihnat The owner of Electrical Audio studio was famous for engineering and producing a number of iconic records, as well as for starting bands like Big Black and Shellac, among others. RAVENSWOOD \u2014 Legendary rock icon Steve Albini has died. The 61-year-old died of a heart attack, confirmed by staff at Albini\u2019s… Read More »Steve Albini, Chicago Music Legend, Dies At 61<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7659,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions\/7659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}