(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Shellac hold a rarefied position in the indie-rock universe. They release music only when they feel like it and they tour in short bursts, like the quick ...

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 ...

Steve Albini is famous–well, sort of. He’s the guy who recorded Nirvana’s In Utero and the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, not to mention over 1,000 other albums. He owns a recording studio called Electrical ...

(Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark, #110) We were going to recommend Wednesday’s show at Mississippi Studios, where Steve Albini’s Shellac is going to light everyone’s smarty-pants on fire. But it’s sold ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...