Peeling The Onion Elvar Elvarsson

There was an unmeasurable loss suffered May 7th when Steve Albini died from a heart attack at his home in Chicago, on May 7, 2024, at the age of 61.It’s very hard to state Albini’s importance in music but also what a wide thinking individual he was - with ethos and values that he re-visited and which evolved along with him as a person.He was one of my all time favourite musicians but on top of that he was also probably my single favourite recording engineer, having recorded masterpieces like:...

Alright good people - let’s get our bass springs ready and fire up our jet turbines - our guest on Peeling The Onion is no other than the almighty Blixa Bargeld ! Yes, this is not a drill. I sat down with Blixa for a 90 minute talk about the new Einstürzende Neubauten album, Rampen (AMP: Alien Pop Music), which is to be released April 5th, as well as his extremely prolific career. He of course did 20 years with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and has done many collaborations, including his w...

Alright let's get in our little blue dune buggies and let’s get this party started - Chris Ballew is our guest on episode 5 of Peeling The Onion ! Chris is one of the most prolific artist out there - he’s played over 2000 shows throughout the years and released several dozen of albums of original material under multiple aliases. These days he’s releasing solo albums under his own name for the first time in his career, two a year - every January and July for the unforeseeable future. I’ve...

Turn off your heat and have a bowl of rice - we have an in depth conversation with one of the all time great bass players of our lifetime. Joe Lally is one of four key ingredients of Fugazi, one of the most influential bands of all time. After Fugazi went on indefinite hiatus some 20 years ago Joe has been prolific and beside releasing three solo albums has collaborated with artist like John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer as well as founding Coriky with Ian Mackaye (Fugazi) and his wife Amy ...

Henry Rollins taught me a new word: luddite. Ah ha ! Peeling The Onion is back with non other than the mighty Henry Rollins.Oh my what an absolute treat. I spoke to Henry on January 2nd and what a great way to start the calendar year. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a yearly thing because what is better than starting the year speaking to a man who is as hard working and successful but as modest and humble as Henry is.Henry cut his teeth with Black Flag in the 80's. He went on to found...

Alright ! Peeling The Onion's first episode. Damn I'm excited.We're starting this out with a bang since I got the legendary Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü and now Ultrabomb on the podcast. Hüsker Dü is one of the most hard working and prolific bands in the history of music and it was great to get Greg's perspective of their career. He took a 14 year break from the music business but is back with his band Ultrabomb and was just on his way to record their second album when I talked to him.I really ho...