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 ...

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 ...

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 ...