Steve Albini

MONO – Scarlet Holliday (EP Review)

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the musical masterminds in Japan’s MONO felt compelled to offer a special gift of sonic serenity to their fans for the 2020 holiday season. Released digitally, “Scarlet Holliday” and “First Winter” were intended to stoke a flame of ... Read More

25 Years of Nirvana’s In Utero

With “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Nevermind, Nirvana single-handedly ushered into being a musical revolution and the entire Grunge movement. On Tuesday, September 21, 1993, they would deliver that album’s epic follow-up, In Utero, to a world that was desperately in need of some (heart-shaped) sincerity. ... Read More