Video: Shellac - Steve deals with a heckler

Shellac at ATP ( more by BBG ) Though tickets for their show on October 3rd are still available , the Shellac / Helen Money tour has added a second night at The Bell House on October 4th . Tickets are on sale. An updated set of tour dates is below. In related news, Steve Albini of Shellac is responsible for production of Superchunk 's debut Foolish . That [...]

Man oh man, this Robbie Fulks Michael Jackson tribute album is getting more awesome and more crazy with every new detail. Now, we find out that Steve Albini's noisy three-piece Shellac plays on it: Shellac is a magnificent punk band...

ct> People often ask me, "Will you please leave me alone,"no seriously, people ask me how I can justify writing about Steve Albini one week and then the next write about top 40 r&b, punk one day and disco the next. Simple answer, step into your kitchen and take a common or garden spoon and a pot. Now turn the pot over with the bottom facing up (minds out of the sewer please) hit the bottom of the pot with the spoon. What just happened? A noise. Right, music is all just sounds and noise. There you [...]

I was looking for June of '44 videos to put up here so that I could write an entry about them, but, alas, there was nothing that really leaped out at me of theirs on Youtube. In the related videos section, though, came a Shellac video. I haven't listened to Shellac in a long time, but just the other day, I had Squirrel Song stuck in my head ("This isn't some kind of metaphor! God damn! This is real!"). Anyway, here's a video of Shellac doing My Black Ass. At the very beginning, there [...]

Why do you suck so much?

Why do you suck so much?