“Musician, studio engineer and the mastermind behind some of rock’s greatest albums”: Steve Albini, punk guitar icon and producer for Nirvana, Pixies, dies at 61
Steve Albini, a punk and alt-rock icon whose knife-edged, metallic guitar style influenced players the world over, has died at the age of 61, Pitchfork reports. Staff at Albini’s recording studio, Electrical Audio, said that he died of a heart attack.
As the frontman and guitarist for Big Black, and later Shellac, Steve Albini developed an abrasive lyrical and guitar style that proved tremendously influential to generations of alt-rock and metal bands.
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