Brooklyn Vegan — Steve Albini's band Shellac are in motion this year, playing Los Angeles' F Yeah Fest at the end of the month. They'll also be playing some East Coast dates in the fall before heading to Europe, including two nights at Brooklyn's ... more info

Stereogum — As Stereogum’s resident Radiohead fanboy, for me, Friday at Primavera Sound was all about Thom Yorke and company. My whole night was planned around achieving ideal Radiohead-watching circumstances, which involved some sacrifices. It meant missing D... more info

Stereogum — Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat, Embrace) and Steve Albini (Big Black, Shellac, Rapeman) have known each other for years, since their bands were circulating the ’80s hardcore scene. The Kreative Kontrol podcast got the two underground icons on th... more info

Stereogum — Felicia Douglass is well-known as the lead vocalist on some of Ava Luna’s most memorable singles. “Coat Of Shellac,” off of this year’s Infinite House, is a bright, albeit anxious R&B-tinged track that questions the validity of a relationship... more info

Stereogum — Ava Luna’s two female vocalists exist at opposite poles, both equally as satisfying. Felicia Douglass’ is the one that’s a little more soulful, with a tendency to reach for dizzying, shimmering heights on tracks like “PRPL” and “Coat Of S... more info

Stereogum — Wire’s classics tend to be terse, minimal constructions that don’t necessarily lend themselves to massive, sprawling all-star superjams. But this past weekend, one of them got the superjam treatment anyway. Wire headlined their won DRILL: CHICAGO... more info

Stereogum — Lately, Steve Albini — the veteran producer, Shellac frontman, and longtime underground-rock gadfly — has been saying things about how streaming services are the inevitable next development in the way we listen to music, even going so far as to c... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Chicago's Pink Avalanche are the group led by Chicago sound engineer Che Arthur (who's worked with Russian Circles, Bob Mould, Shellac, Pelican and more, and was also in Atombombpocketknife) with Adam Reach (The Poison Arrows), Kortland Chase (ex-Cha... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week, Steve Albini’s great noise band Shellac released their fifth album, Dude Incredible. And while most artists surround a new album with a tour and a series of interviews, yesterday afternoon at Pop Montreal, Albini led a cooking cl... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Shellac released its first new album in seven years, Dude Incredible, is released today. The Alla-Lah's' Worship the Sun is my personal favorite this week, but I have also enjoyed My Brightest Diamond's This Is My Hand and This... more info