Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Steve Albini, the American musician and record producer, best known as the frontman of the indie rock bands, Shellac and Big Black, died of a heart attack on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at the age of 61.

Two’s company, three’s a minimalist rock trio. I think that’s how the saying goes, in indie muso circles at least. And you certainly won’t find a more powerful minimalist rock trio than Shellac this ...

Last night (March 20), the trio – consisting of Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer – took to social media to announce the record. The album will mark Shellac’s sixth overall, and first since ...

Released just 10 days after Steve Albini’s death, the trio’s sixth record closes the book on the band and serves as a reliably excellent epitaph. Of course, the crucial difference with this particular ...

"We've already done some recording of the new material, and early indications are that we're still happy with it all" This past year marked the 25th anniversary of Shellac, the influential three-piece ...

If any one-woman band can eclipse the delightfully volatile presence of Steve Albini and his stature in the annals of Amerindie rock and scrumptious food bloggery, it’s the cerebral and dissonant ...

Shellac have just released their final album ‘To All Trains’, nine days after the band’s lead guitarist Steve Albini passed away. He also had a highly influential and accomplished recording career, ...

Culled from the band’s sessions at Maida Vale Studios in 1994 and 2004, this double-LP that captures, in great fidelity, the acerbic personality and power of Steve Albini’s trio. Save this story Save ...