Shawn C. Baker

We bring Seven Days Celebrating Steve Albini's career with a track from what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest production statement...

For these final two days of Steve Albini celebration, I wanted to highlight a few of the albums that his production made him sort of an ex...

Big Black's Songs About Fucking stands with early Ministry as one of the stalwarts of the Chicago Indie Sound of the 80s. While it'...

1000 Hurts was the first Shellac album I bought, and the one-two of "Prayer to God" and "Squirrel Song" really explai...

  This one hurts. I'm starting Seven Days of Steve today, but don't have anything else to say. 

Deep, murky dreams last night, the kind that follow you right up to the door that leads back across the wall of sleep. I woke up before my...

Continuing this somewhat - to me anyway - fascinating record of the music I wake up with in my head, because there's always music there ...