Albini had become a fan of punk rock during his high school years in Missoula, Montana, and taught himself to play bass guitar in the fall of 1979, his senior year, while recuperating from a badly broken leg resulting from being struck by a car while riding his motorcycle.

Moving to Evanston, Illinois the following year to pursue a journalism degree and fine art minor at Northwestern, Albini immersed himself in the fledgling Chicago punk scene and became a devoted fan of the post-punk band Naked Raygun.

Albini handled much of the band's logistics himself, setting up rehearsals, booking studio time, and arranging tours.

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.

Albini later produced Nirvana's 1993 In Utero at the request of Cobain.

The song " In the Meantime " was recorded by Steve Albini and later remixed by Andy Wallace.

" Albini later said that the record could have been completed in a week, but " we ended up trying more experimental stuff basically to kill time and see if anything good materialized.

Lupfer later admitted that Albini knew " perfectly well what was going on.

Albini later observed the use of studio banter on Surfer Rosa: " It's on their record forever so I think now they are obliged to say that they're ok with it, but I honestly don't know that that idea would've ever come up if I hadn't done it.

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 later remarked that " we just had a higher-than-average percentage of really good songs.

In May 1993, Melt-Banana played a show opening for KK Null of Zeni Geva fame, who was impressed enough to immediately offer them a deal with his label, and would later introduce them to Mark Fischer of Skin Graft Records and Steve Albini.

It was remixed, along with " Heart-Shaped Box " and later " Pennyroyal Tea ," by Scott Litt prior to the album's release, with Cobain asserting that the vocals and bass sounded " mushy " in the unmastered Albini recording.

The single was recorded by Steve Albini, who would later record Nirvana's third and final album, In Utero.

The manor of Kenninghall was given by Henry I to William de Albini, and was later inherited by the Dukes of Norfolk.

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Three people claimed the right to act as Chief Butler at the Court of Claims that preceded the coronation-the Duke of Norfolk, Mr. Taylor of Kenninghall and a descendant of William de Albini, but the claims were not considered and no decision was taken.

The contrast between Wallace's style of mixing, which involves ( among other things ) triggered samples ( leading to the album's distinctive half wood, half metal snare drum sound ), and Albini's style of recording, irritated Albini.

Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.

In 1138, three years after Henry's death, she married William d ' Albini II ( aka d ' Aubigny, the first Earl, of the d ' Aubigny family of Saint-Martin-d ' Aubigny in Normandy ).

After sessions for a concept album entitled The Power of Suck were aborted, the band assembled Under the Bushes Under the Stars out of their first 24-track studio sessions, recorded with Kim Deal and Steve Albini among others, in 1996.

Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.

A version of the song Vamos would appear on Pixies ' next two releases: re-recorded with Steve Albini for their first full-length album, Surfer Rosa, and as a live B-side on their first single, Gigantic.

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.

On many songs Albini programmed it to accent the first and third beats of the bar, rather than the second and fourth beats typically accented in rock music.

The word " darkie " appeared in the first line of the Lungs EP, but Albini defended its use as a comical term, saying " in a way that's a play on the concept of a hateful word.

Their first EP, Pure, was produced by Albini and released by Touch & Go in 1989.

PME recorded their first single for independent record label Amoeba Records, and went on to record The White To Be Angry with producer Steve Albini.

The first single release was " Shirt Jac " on In The Red Records ( 1992 ) also from the second recording session with Steve Albini.

The group's first three full length recordings were recorded with the help of Steve Albini.

Swagger is the first album by the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, mixed by Steve Albini.

Duenow's first album " If You Could Only See What They Are Doing To You " was released independently in the latter half of 2003, using session musicians and recording with Steve Albini at his studio Electrical Audio, Danny Schaffer at 4040 studios, dave hutten at Red Squared Studios, and at the home studio of Daniel Pritzker a founding member of local resident and philanthropist Sonia Dada.

William was made king's butler, and was father of William d ' Aubigny ( de Albini ), first earl of Arundel ; Nigel was rewarded with the escheated fief of Robert de Montbray in Normandy and a number of lands in England.

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.

Albini has fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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