Big Black - "Cables"
Today is the forty-eighth birthday of my favorite living musician. He is credited with fronting Big Black until his twenty-fifth birthday, Rapeman until around age twenty-seven, recording my favorite Nirvana album, In Utero, around age thirty-one and just being one of the nerdiest bad-asses (or most bad-ass nerds) in the punk community since then and through today.
Rapeman - "Trouser Minnow"
A journalism graduate of Northwestern University, Steve Albini is one of three people who inspired me to major in journalism. Today he divides his time managing Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago and playing in his current band, Shellac, with Bob Weston on bass and Todd Trainer on drums.
Shellac - "My Black Ass"
Have a great day, Steve Albini, and I bid you Godspeed on your continued journey to find new, more effective ways of crafting the most vicious noise ever forged from both a free and independent artistic (and sometimes journalistic) community.
