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Big Black
Big Black
American rock band
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Shellac
Shellac
American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois
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Nirvana
Nirvana
American rock band
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Bully
Bully
Indie-Rock Band
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Bob Weston
Bob Weston
American musician and audio engineer
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The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard
American alternative rock band
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Mono
Mono
Japanese instrumental rock band
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Dave Riley
Dave Riley
American musician
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Rapeman
Rapeman
American musical group; noise rock band
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David Yow
David Yow
American singer
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Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü
American rock and punk band, active 1979–88
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Slint
Slint
band
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The Breeders
The Breeders
American alternative rock band
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Cloud Nothings
Cloud Nothings
band
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The Replacements
The Replacements
American rock band
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Screaming Females
Screaming Females
American band
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My Disco
My Disco
Australian band
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Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr.
American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984
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Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
alternative rock band formed in New York, New York, United States
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Mission of Burma
Mission of Burma
American band
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Robbie Fulks
Robbie Fulks
American singer-songwriter based in Chicago
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Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
American guitarist
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Fugazi
Fugazi
American Hardcore Punk Band
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Urge Overkill
Urge Overkill
band
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Brian Paulson
Brian Paulson
American record producer
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Krist Novoselic
Krist Novoselic
American rock musician
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Bob Ludwig
Bob Ludwig
American audio engineer
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Weedeater
Weedeater
A stoner/sludge metal band formed by Dave "Dixie" Collins formerly of Buzzov*en.
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Shannon Wright
Shannon Wright
American singer
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Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse
American band
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The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
American alternative rock band
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Rob Bochnik
Rob Bochnik
musician
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The Mark of Cain
The Mark of Cain
Australian indie rock band
Steve Albini
American record engineer and musician

Steve Albini

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American record engineer and musician
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Member of, past and present

Steve Albini (pronounced /ælˈbiːni/; born July 22, 1961) is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums over his career. He has worked with acts such as Nirvana, Pixies, the Breeders and PJ Harvey.

Albini is also known for his outspoken and controversial views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers and musicians, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from album sales, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying a producer as if they had contributed artistically to an album is unethical.