Question: Ruthless Records wasa name used by Chicago and Minneapolis punk bands from 1981 to 1990 including Big Black, an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987, and founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of which band?

Context articles: Songs About Fucking Steve Albini
Arsenal (American band)
Flour (band)
Lungs (EP)
Miaow (band)
Big Black
The Bomb (band)
The Imports
Ruthless Records (Chicago)
Jeff Pezzati

Songs About Fucking Steve Albini is an album by electronic music artist Kid606.
 It was released on compact disc by Important Records.
 All of the samples used on the album are from analog sources, according to the Important Records press release.
 The album cover and title are both a reference to Big Black's album "Songs About Fucking", of which Steve Albini was lead singer and guitarist.
 Also, all of the track titles are anagrams of "Miguel De Pedro", Kid606's real name.
Arsenal was an American band, formed by the former Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango, after Big Black broke up.
 Durango was in law school at the time.
 Arsenal featured similar characteristics to Big Black (drum machine, noisy guitar etc.) but a much less abrasive sound, mainly due to the addition of a melodic keyboard sound on certain songs.
Flour is an American band.
 Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s.
 He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself.
 Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured ex-Big Black guitarist Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac.
 Flour's solo recordings feature the drum machine sound characteristic of Big Black and toyed with by many other independent rock bands in the Midwest during that time period.
 Flour's third solo album "Machinery Hill" was described by Allmusic' s Richard Foss as "an oddball masterpiece of grinding guitar, fluid bass, hammering drums, and very creative ideas".
Lungs is the first EP by American post-hardcore band Big Black.
 It was released in December 1982 on Ruthless Records, and was reissued in 1992 on Touch and Go Records.
 A 19-year-old Steve Albini played nearly every instrument on "Lungs", with "sax bleats" by Albini's college friend John Bohnen and drums being handled by "Roland," a drum machine that was credited as a member of the band.
 The EP was used to recruit the other members of Big Black.
 "Lungs" was recorded on a TEAC 3340 loaned to Albini in exchange for a case of beer.
 Albini has since described the record as the worst he has ever made.
Miaow were an indie band from Manchester, England, active between 1984 and 1988.
 They were led by former Glass Animals singer and "NME" writer Cath Carroll on vocals and guitar, with Steve Maguire (guitar), Ron Caine (bass) and Chris Fenner (drums).
 Their debut single, "Belle Vue", was released in December 1985, the 12"-version featuring the track "Grocer's Devil Daughter", a song about Margaret Thatcher.
 The band's next release was the "Sport Most Royal" track that they contributed to the "NME"’s "C86" compilation in 1986.
 After supporting The Woodentops on their UK tour, two further singles followed in 1987 on Factory Records, the band also relocating to London.
 Carroll joined The Hit Parade and Miaow split up without releasing the promised album titled Priceless Innuendo.
 Cath Carroll subsequently married Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango and went on to a solo career in the 1990s.
Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987.
 Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun.
 In 1985 Pezzati was replaced by Dave Riley, who played on Big Black's two full-length studio albums, "Atomizer" (1986) and "Songs About Fucking" (1987).
The Bomb originally started in 1999, formed by Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun.
 Despite the band's quiet beginnings, Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black, recordist extraordinaire) took an interest in Pezzati's reemergence to the music scene and recorded their first two records, 'Arming' and 'Torch Songs'.
 Which included the original line-up of John Maxwell (The Mangos) on guitar and Paul Garcia on drums and backing vocals (Death and Memphis),with the addition of Steev Custer (Death and Memphis) taking over bass duties.
 In 2002, Jeff Dean (Noise By Numbers, Explode and Make Up, All Eyes West & Dead Ending) replaced Maxwell on guitar,and in 2003 Custer and Garcia were replaced by Pete Mittler (The Methadones, Naked Raygun), Mike Soucy (The Methadones, Jetlag).
 This has been the definitive line up of the band.
The Imports were a Chicago punk rock band that formed in 1980.
 In a response to a solicitation for information on influential people, bands, clubs, zines, etc., for a Chicago Punk History Radio Documentary in 2006, Steve Albini of Big Black listed The C*nts, The Imports, Coolest Retard, Wax Trax, and WZRD.
 Members of The Imports later went on to play with the Vagueleys, Silly Carmichaels (a pre-Ministry Al Jourgensen project), Sharkey's Machine, ¡Ack-Ack!
, The Arms of Someone New, Split Heavens, Sylvia Darling and The Moon Seven Times.
Ruthless Records was the name of a Chicago punk record label.
 Founded in 1981 by the Effigies, it was not a real business, but a name used by Chicago and Minneapolis punk bands from 1981 to 1990: Big Black, the Effigies, End Result, Naked Raygun, Rifle Sport and Urge Overkill.
 The Effigies operated the label from its creation in 1981 until 1984, when they found the label to be distracting from their priorities with the band.
 They handed the label over to Big Black founder Steve Albini, who ran the label until it dissolved in 1990.
Jeffrey Neal "Jeff" Pezzati is the lead singer for the popular Chicago punk band, Naked Raygun.
 From 1983 to 1985, he was also the bass player for the internationally known band Big Black.
 In 1980, Jeff Pezzati was a member of a suburban cover band, Condor, when he was asked to audition for Naked Raygun (then known as Negro Commando) by the founders, Santiago Durango and Jeff's brother, Marco Pezzati.
 Jeff passed the audition and became the band's longest-running member.