Post your questions for Steve Albini

  (The Guardian) : As his band Shellac release their first album since 2014, the celebrated US producer and musician will take on your questions Vocalist, guitarist, producer, provocateur and staunch defender of independent expression, Steve Albini is one of the defining names of the US musical underground – and, occasionally, overground. He’s best known for working with acts such as Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, and for his own bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac. As the latter are set to release their first album since 2014, Albini will be answering your questions. While studying for a journalism degree, Albini started Big Black and immersed himself into the music scene of Chicago, embodying punk’s ethos with Big Black’s forthright, abrasive songs and DIY spirit. He supported his income by taking music production jobs (or engineering, as he would rather frame it), and these eventually become a key part of his artistry, most famously with Nirvana’s 1993 album In Utero. He founded his own studio, Electrical Audio, and still takes production jobs – always for a flat fee, refusing royalty payments in a show of solidarity with his artists. Continue reading... ..