Indie music icon and Nirvana engineer Steve Albini dead aged 61

American indie rock icon and music producer Steve Albini has died. He was 61. Rolling Stone reported the star died on Tuesday from a heart attack as confirmed by Taylor Hales, a staff member at Albini's Electronic Audio recording studio in Chicago. Albini was best known as the frontman of Big Black and Shellac and for his work as a producer and sound engineer for Nirvana, The Pixies, and other legendary music acts. READ MORE: Sydney teen in the running …