Our long national nightmare is over. After a week of criticism, rationalizing, more criticism, and more rationalizing, Amanda Palmer has announced that she will now pay money to the crowd-sourced…   Read Story »

You'd think this Amanda Palmer-Steve Albini beef would just die a quiet death, wouldn't you? Not just yet, if either of the two subjects have anything to say about it. (And they do! In fact, it seems…   Read Story »

Amanda Palmer is no stranger to soliciting fans to help facilitate her musical endeavors -- she raised a record $1.2 million via Kickstarter to finance her new album, Theatre Is Evil. Now touring…   Read Story »

Steve Albini recently summoned the stones to do a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), where he discussed some of his most famous career moments as well as poker, pizza, Nirvana, what Joanna Newsom smells…   Read Story »

Name: The Cribs Progress Report: The Jarman brothers do whatever they damn well feel like on The Cribs forthcoming record, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull. After losing Johnny Marr as their…   Read Story »

British crunch-rock family band the Cribs, who sadly no longer count Johnny Marr as a full-time member, will soon return with their new album In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull. They recorded some…   Read Story »

Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini…   Read Story »

Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a…   Read Story »

Steve Albini produced Cloud Nothings' new LP, Attack On Memory, and you get a sense of that immediately via "No Future/No Past," the first track from that release. Gone are the warm melodies of…   Read Story »

A few days ago we mentioned Steve Albini's delicious, detailed food blog, where he cataloged his cooking experiences. Most of the recipes were Italian, and most were lovingly prepared for his wife,…   Read Story »