STEVE ALBINI Street Revealed Near His Studio In CHICAGO
27 November 2024
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Kortrijk, Belgium – 2017
Last May the music world was shocked when the sad news of
the sudden death of renowned producer STEVE ALBINI came
in. He died of a heart attack, only 61.
He produced so many artists/bands with Kim Deal as one
of the most recent ones. Albini produced her brand-new solo
album Nobody Loves You More.
It was so weird to see that a couple of weeks later Albini‘s band
Shellac, had their 6th LP, named TO ALL TRAINS, out. One of
the best albums of 2024 on my list.
.
Yesterday, a street arrow near his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago,
renamed Steve Albini Way, was officially revealed. Kim Deal spoke
at the ceremony and the Mekons and Jeff Tweedy played some songs.
Kim Deal: “He was a flawed human; he would contradict himself in two sentences.
But at his core he understood the value of each person. Well, not each person. If you
were a bully, he wouldn’t like you at all. Maybe he stuck up for people too hard. He
wanted to stick up for the underdogs. He really didn’t like ‘winners.’ I think he liked
people with a good, healthy dose of low self esteem.”
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Shellac, 2017
