Headache by Big Black – Headache is a 1987 EP by Chicago post-hardcore band Big Black. The record generated some controversy due to a cover photograph of a shotgun suicide victim whose head was split in half; it only appeared on a very limited edition of the record and was later replaced with a drawing…
Remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering. Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was living in Evanston, Illinois, and attending Northwestern University. After recruiting Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) to help out on bass and Santiago Durango (Naked Raygun)on guitar, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded…
1992 reissue of vinyl LP from 1987. Big Black led the alternative music revolution of Industrial from Chicago in the 1980s. The band s 1987 Songs About F*cking hits hard with gritty rock n roll. Holding nothing back, Big Black had their greatest success with this album, as it laid the ground work for bands…
The soundtrack to Tim Burton s neo-classic movie Big Fish (2003), starring Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Marion Cotillard, and Jessica Lange, collects classic pop songs and a score by longtime collaborator Danny Elfman (Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks!). The 2LP soundtrack also contains a song by Pearl Jam,…
Blue Note s roster in the 1960s boasted numerous Hammond B3 organ whizzes including the soulful Kansas City-born master, Big John Patton. The dynamic quintet that he assembled for his 1965 album Oh Baby! packed a punch with the B3 master joined by Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Harold Vick (tenor saxophone), Grant Green (guitar), and Ben…
Powerhouse performer, Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton, was a singing sensation who did not get the recognition her talents so richly deserved. A big woman with a big personality, Big Mama Thornton possessed one of the most soulful voices in R&B history.
By all accounts Big Mama Thornton was a force of nature. Her talent and striking personality took her all around the United States in her twenties and thirties and later to many places around the world. John Norris in Coda magazine wrote of her: Her voice is gutsy, earthy and coarse, but at the same…
Though they both failed to strike commercial success at the time of their releases, 1972 s #1 Record and 1974 s Radio City are now considered to be milestones in the history of rock by critics and musicians alike. Heavily influenced by the British Invasion, yet markedly original – with their jangly pop, driving guitars, sweet harmonies, and wistful…
Big Thief s music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else s, and being okay with the inevitability of death, says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief s debut album, is filled with…
From the beautiful to the jarring, intrepid explorer Callahan charts a passage through all kinds of territory, pitting dreams of dreams against dreams of reality. When he makes it back to us, his old friends n acquaintances, we are reminded how much of a world it can be out there – and in here as…
Sliding between the bodies in the street, cutting across the contrails that bisect our sky, Wand find melody and the anxiety beats as they hum the soundtrack for a new gravitational center. Seeking connections against the plan of niche interest and anonymity, Vertigo is the sound of slippage, rocks of contradiction (in soft focus); feet…