Remembering Steve Albini (1962–2024)
If indie rock’s biggest a-hole can change, there’s hope for us all
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5 min readMay 9, 2024
In the summer of 1984, my wife Charity’s younger brother Chris died suddenly. For the next couple of years, her favorite band was Big Black. “Favorite” is maybe not the right word: it’s more like their aggressively abrasive mix of dual-guitar noise and inhuman drum-machine beats was the…
