While touring during the winter of 1988, Butthole Surfers used a portable DAT recorder to tape various concerts. The strongest of these recordings were packaged as Double Live , a limited edition double album released on vinyl and cassette in 1989, and on CD the following year. This was the…
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The band dissolved after a show in Columbia, Missouri , on the band’s December 1987 tour. Hart was trying to quit heroin using a supply of methadone , but the bottle had leaked. Hart still played the show, but Mould and Norton were concerned he would be unable to play…
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The Living End , a live collection taken from the band’s October 1987 tour, was released in 1994. Mould has said he has never listened to this album.
After some uncertainty from Canty about what he wanted to do with his future, the trio regrouped and booked their first show at the Wilson Center in early September 1987. The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word “fugazi” (which means “false or inauthentic”) from Mark Baker’s…
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With their breakup announced well in advance, Big Black recorded their final album, Songs About Fucking , half in London and half at Albini’s home studio. Their final tours began in June 1987, taking them to Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and across the United States. They performed at the…
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Big Black’s first release for Touch and Go was the Headache EP in spring 1987. The cover artwork for the limited original edition of the EP was a pair of forensic photos of an accident victim whose head had been split down the middle, and the record was packaged in…
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Following Big Black’s breakup, Albini formed and fronted Rapeman from 1987 to 1989 and Shellac from 1992 until his death in 2024. He also began work as a recording engineer , working with artists such as Slint , the Pixies , the Breeders , Pegboy , Urge Overkill , the…
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In January 1987, Sears returned to Dag Nasty and was replaced by Brendan Canty, formerly of Rites of Spring . One day, Picciotto, Canty’s Rites of Spring bandmate, dropped by during a practice session to see how his friend was getting along; he later admitted he secretly harbored the idea…
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Tensions were also mounting within the band. Albini did not drink alcohol, so Riley and Durango became drinking buddies on the road while Albini was doing interviews and handling the band’s logistics. Riley, however, was drinking to excess, and his behavior ruined several of the band’s performances. During a key…
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The original lineup splintered after a period of touring, and singer and core member Shatter died on December 9, 1987, of a drug overdose after forming A3I. Subterranean packaged the band’s singles and rarities as the 1988 collection Sex Bomb Baby . The cassette edition and later CD re-releases featured…
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