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BIG BLACK released the live video Pigpile on this day in 1992. The recording is from a concert at the Clarendon Hotel Ballroom in Hammersmith, London during their final tour. Read much more about this gig, including tour diary excerpts. Initial VHS copies included a bonus 5" vinyl...

The term 'rock & roll music' originally meant dirty songs about fucking, it was rhythmic songs that were euphemistically or explicitly about fucking. Songs about fucking - that's what rock & roll meant. And then the Parents' Music Resource Center was trying to rein in the subject matter...

I am now quite happy to be breaking up. Things getting much too big and uncontrollable. All along we've wanted to keep our hands on everything, so nothing happened that we didn't want to. With international multi-format/multi-territorial shit, that's proving elusive. I prefer to cut it off rather...

BIG BLACK recorded this four-song session in Chicago for John Peel. No date given for the recording, but it was aired on this day in 1987. Three of the four songs appear on studio releases, but "Newman Generator" was only ever recorded (or at least, recorded and released)...