Maybe some context would help. Punk rock in the 1980’s was actual outsider art and there was considerable overlap between transgressive art and actual transgression. Punk has been commodified like any cultural movement and pedophiles like Iggy Pop are now given hero status. Not knowing Albini personally, I always had the sense his ideali…
Maybe some context would help. Punk rock in the 1980’s was actual outsider art and there was considerable overlap between transgressive art and actual transgression. Punk has been commodified like any cultural movement and pedophiles like Iggy Pop are now given hero status. Not knowing Albini personally, I always had the sense his idealism and idol-smashing was performative. He benefited from the alternative rock boom in the ‘90’s as much as anyone. And now people of a certain age get nostalgic and turn scum like Albini into humanitarians. Based on everything I’m learning he was a sociopath that learned how to turn knobs in a music studio. I’ll be interested in knowing what other skeletons are in the closet. Thanks for your article.
We go into that a little bit in the livestream podcast we did on this, including a reference to Iggy although in regards to his communism. We have another article on rockstar predators we'll likely post as a follow up to this; if you have a source that confirms Iggy and the Ashton girl we'll include but as far as I know it's just a rumor.
I’m in no way associated with the music business so I’m not a primary source. I just get my information from message boards & articles like this. Part of me wonders why I even care about Iggy Pop or Steve Albinis personal lives, but here I am. And I will definitely listen to your podcast now.
Glad to have you. Gotta be careful with the message boards; we had a little bad info in this article as a result of one, now fixed. Our coverage is "crime, culture, and media" so we don't go into artists personal lives much, although we did do an article about the suspicious death of Elliott Smith. We interviewed a woman who wrote a book about his death; we had wanted to bring her on Murder Talk Radio but scheduling conflicts didn't allow it. Hopefully we can get her on at some point in the future.
Maybe some context would help. Punk rock in the 1980’s was actual outsider art and there was considerable overlap between transgressive art and actual transgression. Punk has been commodified like any cultural movement and pedophiles like Iggy Pop are now given hero status. Not knowing Albini personally, I always had the sense his idealism and idol-smashing was performative. He benefited from the alternative rock boom in the ‘90’s as much as anyone. And now people of a certain age get nostalgic and turn scum like Albini into humanitarians. Based on everything I’m learning he was a sociopath that learned how to turn knobs in a music studio. I’ll be interested in knowing what other skeletons are in the closet. Thanks for your article.
We go into that a little bit in the livestream podcast we did on this, including a reference to Iggy although in regards to his communism. We have another article on rockstar predators we'll likely post as a follow up to this; if you have a source that confirms Iggy and the Ashton girl we'll include but as far as I know it's just a rumor.
I’m in no way associated with the music business so I’m not a primary source. I just get my information from message boards & articles like this. Part of me wonders why I even care about Iggy Pop or Steve Albinis personal lives, but here I am. And I will definitely listen to your podcast now.
Glad to have you. Gotta be careful with the message boards; we had a little bad info in this article as a result of one, now fixed. Our coverage is "crime, culture, and media" so we don't go into artists personal lives much, although we did do an article about the suspicious death of Elliott Smith. We interviewed a woman who wrote a book about his death; we had wanted to bring her on Murder Talk Radio but scheduling conflicts didn't allow it. Hopefully we can get her on at some point in the future.