Steve Albini, the idealistic punk rock musician and engineer died Wednesday at 61 years old after suffering a heart attack.
His legacy will live on through a wide range of records that helped push the boundaries of alternative music. Albini’s work ethic, no-nonsense style, and commitment to supporting musicians by refusing to take royalties on the records he had a hand in is extremely rare and should be celebrated.
So here are a few artists he was involved with who have firsthand reasons to be sad for today but blessed that they got to cross paths.
But first, here’s the time Anthony Bourdain took Steve out for lunch where the New Yorker asked the Chicagoan if his low-priced model of engineering was some sort of Communism.
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