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An Exactly Drawn Dawn: How Factory Revolutionised Record Design

In an exclusive extract from the new book, FAC 461 Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album, label co-founder Tony Wilson reflects on what made the look of Factory Records so outstanding and how the Happy Mondays managed to offend Genesis P. Orridge
Black Sky Thinking

The Quietus’ Top Ten Greatest Works of Auto-Destructive Music

Robert Barry follows on from yesterday's Quietus Essay on the chaotic and noisy history of auto-destructive music with ten of the best examples inc. The Durruti Column, Jimi Hendrix, Nam June Paik and Whitney Houston
A Quietus Interview

State Of The Nation: Vini Reilly Interviewed

John Mullen visits one of the greatest guitarists of his generation at home where he is recuperating after a series of strokes. His inspiration is the kindness of strangers, just don't mention Margaret Thatcher...
Black Sky Thinking

Sweeping From The Factory Floor: The Label’s Final Years

Twenty years after the Factory Records empire collapsed, Stuart Huggett sifts through the wreckage of the label's final releases
Things I Have Learned

Vini Reilly: Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride

The Quietus tracks down the musician many still rate as the most expansive and creative of the post-punk era, The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly

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Baker's Dozen

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

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