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Steve Albini VS Bill Wyman, musical journalist from Chicago Reader!
Simply, you must read it!
The
problem with music, by Steve Albini 
This is an article from Maximum Rock n' Roll #133 written by Steve Albini, and it details the problems encountered when dealing with a major label.
Here is an interesting excerpt:
"The agent says a band on a major label can get a merchandising company to pay them an advance on T-shirt sales! ridiculous! There's a gold mine here! The lawyer Should look over the merchandising contract, just to be safe. They get drunk at the signing party. Polaroids are taken and everybody looks thrilled. The label picked them up in a limo. They decided to go with the producer who used to be in Letterman's band. He had these technicians come in and tune the drums for them and tweak their amps and guitars. He had a guy bring in a slew of expensive old "vintage" microphones. Boy, were they "warm." He even had a guy come in and check the phase of all the equipment in the control room! Boy, was he professional. He used a bunch of equipment on them and by the end of it, they all agreed that it sounded very "punchy," yet "warm." All that hard work paid off. With the help of a video, the album went like hotcakes! They sold a quarter million copies!"
"This is Pop, the troubled story of Nirvana's IN UTERO (produced by Steve Albini)" by Keith Cameron
This is a very interesting MOJO's article about the In Utero production by Steve Albini, here is some excerpts:
--- "Once Nirvana had decided that their third album would not be a retread of their breathtakingly popular second, then Steve Albini was the perfect choice of producer. For a start, he famously disavows the notion the he "produces" records at all. Instead he strives to "record" bands the way they sound, taking pride in doing a good, professional job" ---
--- Kurt Cobain on Albini's way of work "We had big old German microphones taped to the floor and the ceiling and the walls, all over the place, i don't know anything about recording, but it just seem so obvious to me that is what you need to do. I tried to get Butch Vig to do it, i tried to get Jack Endino to do it, and everyone's response was "That isn't how you record". Steve Albini proved to me on those songs, althought i don't know exactly how he did it, i just knew that it had to be that way. He had to have used a bunch of microphones... It's very in-your-face and real" ---
This article-interview contains a lot of informations about band's first steps, At Action Park and Peel Session song meaning, and also some jokes from the three members!
(in Italian) Questo articolo-intervista contiene molte informazioni sui primi passi del gruppo, sul significato di alcune canzoni di At Action Park e della Peel Session, e anche alcune battute molto pungenti e sarcastiche dei tre membri... Purtroppo il tutto non è tradotto in italiano, me ne scuso, spero di farlo al più presto ma il tempo è davvero ridottissimo in questo periodo, per esami universitari e altri problemi.
A Shellac article+interview by JASON PETTIGREW and BRAD MILLER
Here is some interesting excerpts: