Steve Albini

American record engineer and musician (1962-2024) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 61

Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981-1987), Rapeman (1987-1989), and Shellac (1992-2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In...

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Albini, age 16, c. 1978-79, at Hellgate High School in Missoula, Montana[1]

A flyer designed by Albini for a show with Big Black, Urge Overkill, and Squirrel Bait at the Jockey Club in Newport, Kentucky, on May 26, 1985

Shellac in Shibuya, Tokyo, c. November 1993. Front to back: Weston, Albini, and Trainer.

Albini in 2007

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Albini (right) with Ani DiFranco and RZA at The New Yorker festival in September 2005

Kim Deal (pictured 2009), a close friend of Albini, said she was shocked by his past statements and that he had become a better person.

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He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981-1987), Rapeman (1987-1989), and Shellac (1992-2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In Utero, and Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers (2009).

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