Tower of sound

RIP Steve Albini + Toronto live music listings

Legendary recording engineer Steve Albini has died at age 61 of a heart attack.

If you know, you know. And if so, you probably came of age in the 1990s, when few truly understood The Problem With Music. For years he was known as much for being an “irascible gadfly” (a term I used for him in Hearts on Fire) as he was his devotion to pure live sound on re…