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“Nobody Messes With The Fall”: Remembering Mark E Smith

Niall O'Keeffe looks back at the four decade history of the world's greatest band, The Fall and its guardian, Mark E Smith

RIP Mark E. Smith. The Quietus’ 60 Favourite Fall Songs

Quietus writers and guests including Brett Anderson, Stewart Lee, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Adrian Sherwood, Pat Nevin and Krishnan Guru-Murthy select 60 favourites from The Fall's back catalogue.

Becks Induction Hour: Mark E Smith On The LP That Nearly Ended The Fall

This is the first in a series of Fall features leading up to the release of Our Future - Your Clutter on Domino this Spring. John Doran talks to his nibs about Hex... (republished 24th January 2018)

Messing Up The Paintwork: This Nation’s Saving Grace Revisited

‘Paintwork’, an album track from This Nation’s Saving Grace, is in some respects the key to the song-writing processes of The Fall. John Doran looks back to 1985 with some help from Mark E. Smith

Mark E Smith Of The Fall On Art & The Artist

The Fall and Mark E Smith As A Narrative Lyric Writer

We Only Have This Excerpt: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

Mark E Smith has a drink with Kevin EG Perry and tells him about literary influences and Ersatz GB. Photograph by Valerio Berdini (Originally published 24th November 2011, republished 24th January 2018)

When Mark Met Nick and Shane: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)

Junk Shop Classical On Stravinsky: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Stravinsky’s merciless Rite Of Spring from 1913 was the last hit piece he had, although he lived and worked prolifically until 1971. So how come we’re still talking about the Russian modernist as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century?

Why Office-Based Juice Raves Can’t Hide The Dark Truths Of Self-Employment

As the self-assessment tax return deadline looms, Kit Caless looks at the rise of co-working spaces and the increasingly blurred boundary between work and home

Sean Noonan

Man No Longer Me

Intense, daft, tricksy, virtuoso, addictive: an absolute trip from a “modern-day sonic griot”

Dommengang

Love Jail

The rocknroll chuggers move west to LA and find sunshine, warm breezes

Cindy Wilson

Change

Solo for the first time, the B-52’s co-founder experiments, collaborates and comes up good

After The Flood: An Interview With Hookworms

John Freeman chats to Leeds-based Hookworms about how their astounding new album Microshift, informed by a love of techno, helped them survive as a band in the aftermath of Storm Eva’s destructive floods

Slow Place Like Home

When I See You… Ice Cream!

From Northern Ireland, a singular mind creates a singular electronic album - a rich and idiosyncratic gem

Jim Ghedi

A Hymn For Ancient Land

Heartfelt 12-string guitar composition from the Sheffield trad folk player, who sometimes goes a bit too far with the bucolic bliss

Ooooh Betty! Nasty Gal By Betty Davis Revisited

Major label flop it may have been, but Betty Davis’ Nasty Gal, newly reissued by Light In The Attic, showcased an artist raging against the dying of the funk light, says Patrick Corcoran

Sensory Occupation Tank: V Ä L V Ē’s Chlöe Herington Interviewed

Chlöe Herington talks to Eoin Murray about the olfactory potential of psychedelic gigs and the power of recurring dreams

40 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance Revisited

Can the birth of post-punk be traced back to a recording studio in the Cleveland woods? Brian Coney makes the case for Pere Ubu’s debut LP being the genre's genesis point

Soho Rezanejad

Six Archetypes

A powerful lysergic pop debut from the Danish solo artist

Gentlemen Take Polaroids: Wim Wenders’ Instant Stories

An exhibition of Polaroid pictures offers insights into the film-making processes of German director Wim Wenders, finds Adam Scovell at the Photographers' Gallery

Will The Real Rodney Graham Please Stand Up: That’s Not Me At IMMA

At the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, John Quin faces multiple Rodney Grahams through which the Canadian artist reveals his obsessions with time and dead media

Porches

The House

The move from indie rock to synth pop is complete, and this is Porches’ best record yet

Get The Lawyers In! Experts On The Del Rey vs Radiohead vs Hollies Case

Music copyright experts Guy Osborn (Professor of Law at the University of Westminster) and Simon Anderson (musician and music publisher) of Lost In Music cast their expert eye over the current plagiarism farrago and ask, are musicians doomed to be forever on repeat?

Having Some Power Troubles: Emma Ruth Rundle Interviewed

In the final week of her gruelling twelve-week tour, rock musician and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle speaks to Emma Madden about alcoholism, the next record and fans who cross the line

Dubi Dolczek

Dubi in Space Part 1: The Emerald Gauntlet

This cosmic crooning is a trip - we’d like it to go further

The Abyss Stares Back… Smiling: Amenra Interviewed

As Amenra bring their grace-giving gloom to CTM Festival in 2018, Colin H. van Eeckhout discusses how he found light in the dark.

The Moral Is: Gary Numan’s Dance Revisited

Dance is often seen as the point where it all started to go wrong for Gary Numan. It is however, says Ned Raggett, one of the most interesting albums he ever released...

NSRD

The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

From 1980s Latvia, a wonky, lovely agitpop gem

The Bends? Grant Gee On The Day Thom Yorke Nearly Drowned For Art

Twenty years on from the release of the No Surprises video and classic music documentary Meeting People Is Easy, Grant Gee talks to Adam Scovell about how he convinced Radiohead's Thom Yorke to risk drowning in a fishtank

Fire, Prayer & Curses: Lingua Ignota Interviewed

The power electronics composer and classically trained singer talks to Aimee Armstrong about immolation, self-weaponisation and the divine inspiration of Hildegard von Bingen.

Shame

Songs Of Praise

Boys in the band, but (hopefully) not those kind of boys in the band. By Cady Siregar.