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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Weird musician hobbies, part 1

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blur, Breeders, Hobbies, Motorhead, PIxies, Rock Stars, Steve Albini, Tool

When you’re a musician, most of your life is obviously taken up by music.  But you still need those times

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Music News AJMT
Medical Mysteries of Music Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, March 16, 2022

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment ABBA, BandCamp, Covid, Daryl Hall, Dolly Parton, Donald Trump, Ed Sheeran, Jimmy Page, Song Catalogues, Steve Albini, Touring, Van Halen

A rideable robot goat? From a motorcycle manufacturer? Yep. Let’s try some music news for March 16, 2022. Just as

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Music News 

Watch Steve Albini rake it in at the World Series of Poker

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Poker, Steve Albini

Steve Albini is well-known for producing and engineering albums for Nirvana, The Pixies, the Breeders, Iggy & The Stooges and

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Music History 

Steve Albini looks back on In Utero, 25 years after its release

August 22, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments In Utero, Nirvana, Steve Albini

In the summer of 1993, with the follow-up to Nevermind looming, there was great pressure on Nirvana, especially Kurt Cobain.

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Music News 

Random music news for Monday, June 18, 2018

June 18, 2018June 17, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC/DC, Album Artwork, Axl Rose, Cramps, Crfanberries, Damon Albarn, Dee Dee Ramone, Emmy, Metallica, Nirvana, Noel Gallagher, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Seymour Stein, Steve Albini, Terence Trent D'Arby, Tool, Wax Cylinder, World Cup

Happy 76th birthday, Paul McCartney! If you’ve never seen him live, do it. I swear that a Macca show has

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Music History 

Steve Albini looks back on Nirvana’s In Utero album, which turns 25 this year

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments In Utero, Nirvana, Steve Albini

After shifting the planet’s rock’n’roll axis with Nevermind in 1991, Nirvana released Its follow-up, two years later almost to the

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Music News 

Want to Buy Mics Used for Nirvana’s In Utero Album?

September 17, 2017September 16, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments In Utero, Kurt Cobain, Steve Albini

A couple of years ago, I was given a tour of Abbey Road. When we got to Studio 2, the

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Recommended Music 

Because It’s Sunday, Here’s a Song About William Shatner

September 10, 2017September 9, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments George Best 30, Steve Albini, Wedding Present, William Shatner

As cultural icons go, William Shatner is a pretty gigantic. Even the Wedding Present was been taken in by the

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Music Industry 

A Must Read: Steve Albini’s Keynote Address at Australian Music Conference

November 17, 2014 Alan Cross 3 Comments Opinion, Steve Albini

I’ve always liked Steve Albini for his plain speaking. The producer recording engineer legend has some very strong views about

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Cool! 

The Steve Albini Cooking Class. You Heard Me.

September 20, 2014September 22, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cooking, Steve Albini

Most music fans known Steve as a producer recorder of such bands as Nirvana, the Breeders and several hundred indie

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Tech 

Revisiting Steve Albini’s “The Problem With Music” Essay (And How That Problem Has Been Solved by the Internet)

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Steve Albini, The Problem with Music

This is from Quartz (via Rupinder): It’s now 20 years since Steve Albini, the legendary rock music producer best known for Nirvana’s

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