Amoeba Music

At a time when most “underground,” post-hardcore indie bands were moving towards stripped-down, guitar-centric tunes ala the Replacements, Big Black emerged in the ‘80s as a daring experiment in bombast, noise, and yes, even drum machines. Even though they were noisy, Big Black often erroneously gets placed in the formal “noise” category, but they really owe more of their sound to MX-80, PIL, and Wire, than to any purely “experimental” composers.

Frontman Steve Albini asserts that his band was a punk rock band, and, unlike most musicians who try to define their own sound and often get it wrong, in Big Black’s case, he was right. If punk can be defined as a musical dose of angry shock delivered in new ways,... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Alternative/Indie, Noise Rock

City Of Origin:

Chicago, ,Illinois United States

Formed Date:

1982