You could not ask a band, any band, to be rawer than Shellac. The trio’s sound is a sonic manifesto of their leader’s ethics, and their live sets are an obvious extension of it. The stage lights are ...

Shellac have just released their final album ‘To All Trains’, nine days after the band’s lead guitarist Steve Albini passed away. He also had a highly influential and accomplished recording career, ...

Better than: Bawling indie-rock wuss tears as Jeff Mangum sings a Neutral Milk Hotel weeper. For the second year in a row, Chicago post-punk veteran goliaths Shellac graced The Bell House stage for ...

Thanks to MetalSucks reader Tiago for sending us this clip of Shellac live in Rio this past Tuesday. And thanks to Wikipedia for reminding us that Shellac guitarist Steve Albini is a baseball nut. And ...

Forget the Platonic ideal, Shellac have always aspired to the sardonic ideal. On a ditty cheekily titled “Chick New Wave” — off To All Trains, the noise-rock group’s sixth and final album following ...

Culled from the band’s sessions at Maida Vale Studios in 1994 and 2004, this double-LP that captures, in great fidelity, the acerbic personality and power of Steve Albini’s trio. Save this story Save ...