Albini has described such criticisms as idiotic, arguing that punk ideology is generally very sympathetic to feminism.

Harvey describes herself as " an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people " and has also acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music ; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making Rid of Me.

Albini's producer's fee was US $ 1, 500 and he received no royalties ; Albini has a practice of refusing royalties from records he produces, viewing it as " an insult to the band.

Recording engineer, guitarist, and journalist Steve Albini has criticized Lollapalooza for its corporatization of popularized " alternative " music.

Though the band has been approached by promoters about doing other reunion shows, Albini has stated flatly " that is definitely not going to happen.

Throughout the course of their career this experimental sound and occasionally unconventional recording techniques has allowed the band to work with a number of diverse artists including Elliott Smith, Beck, Solomon Burke, Steve Albini, Martina Topley-Bird and Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys.

Steve Albini has stated that it is the one album on which he felt he got both the best sound for a band, and the best performance from a band.

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Steve Albini has said that Songs About Fucking is the Big Black album that he is most satisfied with.

Under Albini, Weston honed his studio production skills and has gone on to record and mix material for bands including Sebadoh, June of 44, Polvo, The Coctails, Archers of Loaf, Chavez, Rachel's, Ken Vandermark, and Rodan.

Steve Albini, a long-time friend and associate of John Loder, has described the set up at Southern Studios as being completely analogue.

Following Big Black's breakup, Albini formed and fronted Rapeman from 1987 to 1989 and Shellac from 1992 onward.

Albini began playing in college bands, including a short-lived " arty new wave " act called Stations that featured a drum machine.

Influenced by bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke, and The Cure, the EP is described by Our Band Could Be Your Life author Michael Azerrad as " cold, dark, and resolutely unlistenable ", with the lyrics describing crack addicts and child abusers, and Albini later regarded the effort as one of his few artistic regrets.

Albini believed that Big Black had nothing to gain by adopting the usual corporate trappings of rock bands: " If you don't use contracts, you don't have any contracts to worry about.

Albini was a fan of punk rock bands including Suicide, the Ramones, The Stooges, and Naked Raygun.

It consisted of Steve Albini ( formerly of Big Black ) on guitar and vocals, David Wm.

in 1990 after Albini had an argument with the label over the release of a Big Black record.

Among others, Steve Albini ( Shellac, Rapeman, Big Black ), Panthére, Gang Gang Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, Henry Rollins, Joy Division / New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Cassandra Complex, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Radiohead, Kap Bambino, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Angel Corpus Christi ( covers of Dream Baby Dream and Cheree with Alan Vega guest vocals ), Michael Gira, MGMT, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones ( both of whom have recorded cover versions of " Rocket USA "), Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Mi Ami, R. E. M.

In 2004, Lightning Bolt played on the doorstep of radio DJ John Peel's chalet at noon during the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, about which neighbor Steve Albini of Shellac and Big Black commented " Best alarm clock I've ever had.

On the advice of a 4AD colleague, Watts-Russell looked to hire Steve Albini, ex-frontman of Big Black, as the record's engineer and producer.

Big Black was founded by Steve Albini in 1981 during his second year of college at Northwestern University.

A Roland TR-606 drum machine, the model Albini used to create Big Black's drum sound.

Albini named his new musical project Big Black, calling the moniker " just sort of a reduction of the concept of a large, scary, ominous figure.

In early 1983 Albini met Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati through mutual friends and convinced him to play bass guitar with Big Black.

According to Albini, " He ended up being absolutely crucial to Big Black.

Albini " sorta conned " small local label Fever Records into financing the next Big Black EP, bringing in drummer Pat Byrne of Urge Overkill to play on the sessions as accompaniment to the drum machine, which they dubbed " Roland " for album credits.

Part of Big Black's local unpopularity stemmed from Albini and the vitriol he regularly directed at Chicago's rock scene: by 1985 the Metro Chicago was the only club in the city that was booking punk rock shows and was also large enough to accommodate Big Black, but after performing there Albini badmouthed the club in an interview and found himself banned from it permanently.

Gerard Cosloy, who had befriended Albini through writing for Matter and gone on to work at Homestead, negotiated an unorthodox deal for the band: Big Black merely licensed their recordings to Homestead for specific lengths of time, rather than the label retaining the rights to the recordings as was typical.

Michael Azerrad comments that " by this time Big Black had both refined the ideas first suggested on Lungs and exploded them into something much huger than anyone but Albini had ever imagined ", while Mark Deming of Allmusic states that the album " upped the ante on the musical and lyrical ferocity of Big Black's previous body of work, an unrelenting assault of guitar sounds and imagined violence of all sorts.

Big Black secured a European distribution deal for their records through Blast First, a label recommended to Albini by Sonic Youth, and met enthusiastic responses to their shows on a 1986 European tour.

As a result of the deception, Albini and Big Black severed ties with Homestead and Dutch East India.

Another problem facing the band was that Riley was now in college and both Albini and Durango had to keep day jobs, which limited Big Black's ability to tour.

" Albini himself later considered the album's first side as Big Black's best output.

While recording the Pixies ' album Surfer Rosa, producer Steve Albini recognized the Pixies ' references and realized that he and Black both " had an affection " for Norman's music.

" An example was " Something Against You ", where Albini filtered Black Francis ' voice through a guitar amp for " a totally ragged, vicious texture.

On September 9, 2006, Albini and Durango reunited with original bassist Jeff Pezzati for a Big Black reunion performance at Touch and Go's 25th Anniversary festival.

Albini explained that the performance was " not about Big Black wanting to get back together or even an audience wanting to see Big Black, it's that ... to not honor Touch and Go would be an insult by way of damning with faint praise ", describing the label as " just a benchmark for how a record label should behave, but how people should behave.

" Both Albini and Riley described Big Black as a punk rock band.

Albini also emphasized that the songs ' lyrics were not the focal point of Big Black, and that the vocals were only there out of necessity: " It seemed like, as instrumental music, it didn't have enough emotional intensity at times, so there would be vocals.

In an interview, Albini reported that "' Rapeman ' is ... the title character in a Japanese comic book that I had come across through a friend of mine.

* Steve Albini ( Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac )