Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Steve Albini, an alternative rock pioneer and legendary ... of Me,” Albini was the frontman of the underground bands Big Black and Shellac. He dismissed the term ...

Don’t kid yourselves for a fraction of a nanosecond. When it comes to the continued evolution of underground/alternative rock, black lives have always mattered ...

It cannot be denied that some of the most enduring and exciting music and culture created in the punk and alternative-rock ... essential black artists whose contributions to underground music ...

As well as fronting underground rock lynchpins including Shellac and Big Black, Albini was a legend of the recording studio, though he preferred the term “engineer” to “producer.” ...