Albini and vocalist-bassist Bob Weston sing most songs with a smirk. There’s the album’s “How I Wrote How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’ (cock & bull),” whose title takes the piss out of the Fall song from ...

Shellac, the trio of Steve Albini, Bob Weston, and Todd Trainer, have announced their first new album in a decade. To All Trains is due out on May 17 via Touch and go Records. It’s their sixth album ...

Steve Albini's Shellac will release their first new album in ten years. To All Trains is out May 17 and was recorded over a series of weekends in November 2017; October 2019; September 2021; and March ...

Steve Albini (center) with his Shellac bandmates, Bob Weston (front) and Todd Trainer (back) (photo by Masao Nakagami via Flickr) I think most people have a memory of the first time they encountered ...

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 ...

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 ...