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Steve Albini, Underground Rock Legend, Dead at 61
His band Shellac was preparing to release a new album next week.
Steve Albini, a towering figure of underground rock who recorded some of the genre’s biggest albums and fronted the band Big Black, is dead at 61. (A critic of music-industry power structures, Albini notoriously disliked the term “producer” and shunned credit on albums he worked on, even forgoing royalties.) In later years, he recorded albums for Joanna Newsom, Ty Segall, Cloud Nothings, Sun O))), Laura Jane Grace, and Code Orange.
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