Blog: Backseat Sandbar

The Courier Journal profiled uber-engineer, critic, musician, analog-man-in-a-digital-world Steve Albini in today's paper. Albini was the guy behind the equipment on seminal albums like the Pixies Surfer Rosa and Nirvana's In Utero . Albini has been one of the most outspoken critics of how music is run these days: That way of doing things is dead and gone, and they haven't adapted even in the slightest. The big record labels are doomed, and the mainstream music industry is collapsing. I actually find it quite gratifying to see that this is a [...]