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	Shellac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shellac is a brittle or flaky secretion of the lac insect Coccus lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand.
		In actuality, shellac was obtained from an excretion of the female bug, harvested from the bark of the trees where she deposits it to provide a sticky hold on the trunk.
		Because it is compatible with most other finishes, shellac is also used as a barrier or primer coat on wood to prevent the bleeding of resin or pigments into the final finish, or to prevent wood stain from blotching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shellac (467 words)

	Shellac (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shellac (sometimes referred to as 'Shellac of North America') is an American rock music group formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 by Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums).
		Shellac's signature sound is often associated with their enthusiasm for vintage Travis Bean guitars, a rare brand of aluminium-based instruments.
		In 2005, Shellac were recorded playing 'Steady As She Goes' in an abandoned house as part of a film project called Burn To Shine, organised by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and film-maker Christoph Green.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shellac_(band) (897 words)

	Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch and Go)
		Shellac is a band whose members are famous for being super tough nerds.
		As Shellac fans, we all already are familiar with the nerd/tough-ass dyad that exists in the band, and I think that most of us feel that the tension between these two reactive elements is what makes their music so fun to listen to.
		I felt that whatever conflicts were already brewing within the band's collective personality would surely be precipitated by this state of affairs into an all out and decisive battle that would have one of two possible results.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/shellac4.shtml (528 words)

	Shellac at Lounge Ax: Halloween 1998
		When I heard that Shellac was playing The Rave in Milwaukee on October 30th, the day before their Lounge Ax show, I figured I'd see 'em up in Cheeseland.
		Shellac started setting up their equipment and it was strange that they didn't have the big Shellac Silver Amps or the Shellac Green Travis Bean Guitars but other than that there was nothing suspicious.
		Halloween with Shellac and The Jesus Lizard's David Yow as the Sex Pistols, at Chicago's Lounge Ax, was one of those Triumphant Rock Moments for fans, the kind they talk about for years and gather the memories of dropped-jaws and raised eyebrows of friends who thought they had better things to do that night.
	www.petdance.com /actionpark/shellac/halloween-98 (1390 words)

	Shellac's Steve Albini Serves Up The Unvarnished Truth
		[Shellac] had sort of developed a sort of general dislike and distrust of festival mentality, because festivals by and large are set up to exploit an audience that isn't particularly...
		The original intention of that piece was, I guess, sort of a wake-up call for bands in the position of being tempted to sign to big record labels during a period when big record labels were actively fishing within the underground music scene for bands to sign.
		Granted, bands that are signing to big record labels do still end up in the uncomfortable situation of having to pay for the origination and making of the records that the record company will then make profits off of.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/08/17/albini.DTL&type=printable (1808 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		But Shellac is also known for one of its more visible band members, the bespectacled Steve Albini, who's made his name as a prolific recording studio engineer, based out of his Electrical Audio space in Chi-town.
		He and the band also recorded a longtime pet project of the band's, a more raucous version of their 1977 sophomore album "In Color," which may (or, likely, may not) see the light of day.
		Shellac will be involved again in next year's spring festival, along with Belle and Sebastian, and Mogwai, as curators past and present pick their lineups for each day of the festival.
	starbulletin.com /2003/10/24/features/story4.html (1145 words)

	Citizine Interview - Engineer Steve Albini of Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Plant Page
		No,.22 is a band that I've known for years, and Mirror America has people in the band that I've known for years, and I've seen both bands quite a few times.
		The active band community in Chicago has a pretty wide age range but the most active people are all in their twenties and I'm 43, or I will be 43 this year.
		The band makes literally all the creative decisions along the way, and is responsible for deciding when we're finished with one stage and can move on.
	www.citizinemag.com /music/music-0506_stevealbini1.htm (5052 words)

	JAIC 1989, Volume 28, Number 1, Article 4 (pp. 43 to 56)
		Typically OH stretches occur as broad bands near 3400 cm−1, methyl and methylene stretches occur in the region of 2800–3200 cm−1 and carbonyl bands are seen at 1690–1750 cm−1.
		The premise of the identification of resins by band position alone is based on the assumption that the frequency of the absorption bands is reproducible.
		The band deviations from the photochemically degraded samples were omitted because, in each case, the extreme exposure levels produced cracked and yellowed coatings which the author felt was not representative of actual furniture finishes.
	aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic28-01-004.html (4447 words)

	Ink 19 :: Todd Trainer
		Shellac, if you live in a cave and have never heard of them, is one of the world's premiere rock bands.
		Weston has been in several notable bands, such as Volcano Suns, and there is a website devoted to Bob, the teen idol.
		I proposed the idea of a Shellac compilation CD to Bob and Steve, to make vinyl releases available to those without turntables, and to prevent us from further bootleg releases; however, they were not excited about it.
	www.ink19.com /issues/april2003/interviews/toddTrainer.html (1204 words)

	SOUTHERN \| shellac > biography
		Previously the band released "The Rude Gesture (a pictorial history)", "Uranus" and "The Bird Is The Most Popular Finger", all seven inch 45s.
		Shellac's recordings are manufactured and distributed in Europe by Southern Studios.
		I think there are enough bands trying to attract attention to themselves that it is OK that there are some new bands who are reserved about their public image.
	www.southern.com /southern/band/SHLAC/biog.html (1914 words)

	S/FJ: TO THE RESCUE
		Shellac and Boston are pretty much the same band, to the point where I can't imagine I'm the first person to notice this.
		Shellac goes out of its way to deny this, insisting the band is a group effort; nevertheless, the public perception remains.)
		With occasional exceptions, both have a very male fanbase, to the point that the band playing with a woman in its ranks is cause for note and possible concern from the hardercore, more misogynist fans.
	sfj.abstractdynamics.org /archives/003899.html (398 words)

	Shellac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shellac have been recording on and off since the release of that phenomenal long player but that doesn’t necessarily mean a new record is on the horizon.
		Shellac are compulsive dice gamers and "pull the cup" is an expression used in one of their games.
		The Shellac song is Killers, not one of their best, but the other acts featured include Tortoise, Rachel’s, June Of ‘44, the Jesus Lizard and Seam who all contribute previously unreleased tracks and as a whole it’s certainly one of the best compilations of bands from the American underground around right now.
	www.webinfo.co.uk /crackedmachine/shellac.htm#shint (3537 words)

	Shellac - TheBestLinks.com - Alcohol, Ammonia, Acetone, Insect, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shellac - TheBestLinks.com - Alcohol, Ammonia, Acetone, Insect,...
		Shellac, Alcohol, Ammonia, Acetone, Insect, Record, Thailand, 1950, Lac...
		When dissolved in acetone or alcohol, shellac yields a varnish of superior gloss and hardness.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Shellac.html (133 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Music Feature: Middle-Age Riot
		But bands like Sonic Youth and Shellac (fronted by Steve Albini, who's been playing various formulations of punk since he formed Big Black in the mid-'80s) can't afford to be anything less than ambitious.
		Watching them onstage, you'd never once think "nostalgia trip" -- partly because neither band has songs that are anything like what you'd call "greatest hits," but mainly because what both bands were offering was stronger than cheap nostalgia; their music is too honest, too new, for that tag.
		The wrinkles are starting to show, but both bands are having the time of their lives.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/feature/1998/06/03feature.html (899 words)

	Perfect Sound Forever: Shellac interview
		Shellac are one of the greatest rock bands the planet Earth has ever thrown up.
		I was lucky enough to witness eight Shellac gigs in 2004, and after the fifth performance, on the second of four nights at London's Scala, I asked them a few questions.
		I much prefer a band who seem like they're thinking the way their music is implying, rather than putting on a stage persona.
	www.furious.com /perfect/shellac.html (2817 words)

	Neurot: Beyond the Pale
		Even with the low-end in the house system totally crippled Shellac was a machine, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer, one of the most unique looking men in rock, form one of the tightest rhythm sections in the world, and Steve's angular and precise guitar work gives them a sound all their own.
		As per normal for Shellac the songs played weren't in any set order, and they came from all over their history as a band, from their first 7" to the most recent album.
		Live Shellac intentionally draws out some of the more introspective parts to build tension, with Albini often improvising lyrics in a storytelling like atmosphere, this procedure, uncommon in rock music and deviating from the recorded output of course usually prompts many an aspiring wit to shout out asinine things like 'start rocking'.
	www.playinginfog.com /reviews/neurot.html (2592 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Big Black
		The Big Black catalogue was consolidated and reissued in late '92, augmented by the release of Pigpile, a live album recorded in London during the quartet's 1987 farewell tour.
		Albini leads his troupe through such angry slices of niho-philosophy, depravity and arson as "Big Money," "Stinking Drunk," "Fists of Love," "Jordan, Minnesota," "Kerosene" and "Bazooka Joe" (for which the liner notes note "part of the drum track is an M1 carbine being fired in a field exercise by a guy named Joe").
		Terraform's greatest moment, and maybe Shellac's best overall, is the closing "Copper," in which Albini — at a lyrical peak — equates copper to an ugly duckling, lamenting that the metal "will never be gold." Under two minutes long and astonishingly catchy, it's essentially pop punk.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=big_black (1573 words)

	Shellac
		Shellac is like having to pee badly and being locked into some type of social/physical restraint so you are unable to do so.
		At their best, Shellac presents a sick, rigid, tight-as-a-nun's-habit rhythm base of double-timed bass and heavy stuck drumbeat as Steve blasts his painful shock guitar and screams at you from the back of the studio.
		Shellac at this point in time hadn't learned the difference between the two, and the proof is in the pudding.
	www.markprindle.com /shellac.htm (4712 words)

	Amazon.com: Terraform: Music: Shellac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shellac take their name from one of the earliest materials used to make records, and a similar sentiment underlies "Copper," the implausibly catchy blast that closes Terraform.
		There's something about Shellac that makes you feel whichever of their three lp's you are listening too is the best thing next to crack rocks and puppy dogs.
		Shellac are one of the strongest creative forces to be released from the underground in the past 10 years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000060LU?v=glance (1749 words)

	diskant:zine: interviews: reynolds
		At the time we started doing the band no one else was doing super fast, chaotic stuff so it was really exciting to know we were on our own and the chances were people would hate it.
		I'd hate to be 16 and in a band because it's hard enough for me as it is. Fuck it, I'd love to be 16 actually, I've got beer tits and I'm going bald at 25.
		I'd say music with this band is a very small part of our lives though music in general seems to take up most of our time.
	www.diskant.net /interviews/reynolds03b.htm (2062 words)

	Shellac
		Shellac live promises a bit of North America and a lot of pleasing racket.
		Trainer (no nicknames known) is also Brick Layer Cake, a magnificent minimal rock band, and currently a member of Rifle Sport, the longest lived, least active rock band in Minneapolis.
		Shellac's recordings are manufactured and distributed in Europe by
	www.southern.com /southern/band/SHLAC/iuma/Shellac.html (472 words)

	The Greatest Band Of All Time - Baseball and Canada: Shellac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are so many fucking brilliant truths to the Shellac story that I can't begin to list them all--but I'll try to elbow through a few: First, of course, you've got Albini--the most celebrated asshole in American independent rock.
		Written as a soundtrack for a dance production, the Futurist was recorded, and later deemed not fit for proper release by the band--who decided instead to press a limited run and give it to some of their friends and family members as a gift.
		the band printed a list of all of the recipients as the records front cover, circling in silver pen the name of each record holder as they were distributed--insuring that if the person were to, say, sell the record on the internet, the band would be able to figure out whodunit.
	www.urbanhonking.com /greatestband/archives/2005/02/baseball_and_ca.html (751 words)

	Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch And Go) - Drawer B Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These jealous types often defensively pan Shellac albums because they finally feel like they have some power over him; they can give his band a bad review.
		Shellac likes to rub your face in its agenda by deviating from the expected.
		The ideas on Shellac records aren’t necessarily new, but they are executed perfectly, which deserves almost as much credit.
	www.drawerb.com /features/966259191.htm (625 words)

	EARLASH : Album Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Their back story -- band quickly forms and folds in Boston in the early '80s after releasing a handful of EPs and LPs full of brilliant, genre-changing experimental rock -- was already a significant footnote on alternative rock history.
		Reformed except for the absence of tape manipulator Martin Swope, who was replaced with the capable Bob Weston of Shellac, the band's subsequent performances were exuberant displays of dynamic rock n' roll.
		When a band is able to recover its form after a 20-year hiatus and hordes of indie fans still obsess over their concert, many of whom were watching Sesame Street during the band's heyday, recording a new album seems almost out of their hands.
	www.earlash.com /ar.php?albid=160 (617 words)

	CHEER-ACCIDENT Band Page
		Imagine an indie prog band, an emo band that can laugh at itself, or a band that might get compared to Trans Am or the Champs (but has probably never heard either), or maybe the best bet is to set that blender on "10" and dream about Steely Dan, Chicago (the band) and U.S Maple.
		This was the first time that this aspect of the band (though implied on previous releases) had been thoroughly explored in a particular setting.
		This was then followed by the band attempting (unsuccessfully) to play one of their older songs, "Fat Dog's Gonna Hatch", as they started and stopped the song at various points in their quest to 'get it right'.
	www.skingraftrecords.com /bandhtmlpages/cheerac.html (1699 words)

	Shellac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There isn't much question that Shellac has about as distinctive a sound as a rock band can.
		Albini started Shellac in 1993, fresh off his success producing Nirvana's In Utero (he is also acclaimed for his work on albums by The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Man or Astro-man?, and others).
		The group's angular sound, comprised of bizarre schizophrenic time signatures, incredibly jagged guitar parts, and totally stripped-down no-frills production that has become Albini's calling card is clearly descended from work he did in his old bands, '80s cult heroes Big Black and the short-lived Rapeman (which featured members of The Jesus Lizard).
	www.epitonic.com /artists/shellac.html (460 words)

	Shellac, Autolux at the Echo
		After Autolux tore apart the crowd and their equipment was cleared, some homemade amps were brought out and a drum set was set up in the front of the stage.
		Shellac began their set with a song in which the bass played the beat and the drums played the lead, and Steve Albini talking about a last broadcast for about 15 minutes.
		Halfway through the band had an impromptu Q&A session, with fans asking for Shellac songs and Big Black songs.
	www.icecreamman.com /music/article_348.shtml (446 words)

	Ink 19 :: Shellac
		As a band, they are the missing puzzle piece that brings everything together.
		After you've become familiar with the band and it's "sound" in particular, you'll have a firmer foundation from which to view other music.
		While you don't necessarily have to enjoy the music Shellac makes to be an educated listener, you should respect what Shellac does.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_05/wet_ink/music_rsk/094_shellac_nf.html (255 words)

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