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Beggars Banquet Podcast Series to Launch Featuring Martin Mills, Gary Numan, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Cult, The Bolshoi, and More!

States of Independence is a living excavation of the subterranean world that shaped the sound of modern independent music. Across thirteen episodes of its first season, the new podcast series…

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The Fall’s “Seminal Live” Set for Limited Yellow Vinyl Reissue This September

Mark E. Smith was never one for subtlety. A brash force of nature whose voice splashed across airwaves like paint hurled at a blank canvas, his departure in 2018 at…

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NYC Experimental Band Gold Dime Makes a Dark Tribute to The Fall in the Unnerving Video for “My House”

Ahead of the release of Andrya Ambro new album Gold Dime, the former half of noise rock duo Talk Normal, has released the video for “My House”—the title track from…

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Mark E. Smith’s cause of death revealed by family

Legendary front-man of Manchester post-punk band The Fall—Mark E. Smith passed away on January 24th, 2018. Following his death, his management promised a “more detailed” statement would be forthcoming. Now, after…

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Mark E. Smith performs with The Fall via wheelchair for the second time in his career

Mark E. Smith has returned to the stage two months after poor health had caused the postponement of The Fall’s return to the U.S. after more than a decade of absence.…

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The Fall have released a massive 7-disc singles box set spanning Mark E. Smith’s career over 4 decades

Mark E Smith had a prolific music career—spanning forty years and frequent lineup changes with his legendary Manchester Post-Punk band The Fall. This past November Cherry Red Records had compiled a new…

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‘To the Outside of Everything’ A 5-disc box highlighting UK Post-Punk from 1977 to 1981

This December Cherry Red Records is set to release To the Outside of Everything: A Story of U.K. Post-Punk 1977-1981. It is a 5-disc box set that collects more than 100 songs…

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The Fall cancel and postpone their US concert dates until 2018

We were lucky enough to sponsor Mark E. Smith’s long running Punk/Post-Punk band The Fall’s gig at Berlin’s SO36 not long ago. For those stateside, the prognosis is somewhat unlucky, but not catastrophic,…

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The Fall return to the US after an 11 year absence

Mark E Smith and his current incarnation of The Fall are returning to America, um er, this fall, after an 11 year absence. The Manchester Punk/Post-Punk band has just announced it’s…

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Jonathan Demme director of The Silence of the Lambs has passed away

Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs and director of 1984’s Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense(above), “died Wednesday morning from complications due to heart disease and…

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