In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. Twenty years ago this October, Shellac announced ...

Shellac are coming back with their first studio album since 2014. To All Trains, the follow-up to Dude Incredible, is out May 17 via Touch and Go. See the album cover and tracklist below. Guitarist ...

Better than: Bawling indie-rock wuss tears as Jeff Mangum sings a Neutral Milk Hotel weeper. For the second year in a row, Chicago post-punk veteran goliaths Shellac graced The Bell House stage for ...

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 have just released their final album ‘To All Trains’, nine days after the band’s lead guitarist Steve Albini passed away. He also had a highly influential and accomplished recording career, ...

In 2016, David Bowie died two days after the release of Blackstar. Leonard Cohen lasted 17 days after releasing You Want It Darker. Both albums were transmissions from the end of an artist’s life, ...

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 ...

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 ...