mark e smith
Discovering the Lost Photos of a Psychiatric Hospital
A friend and drinking-partner of Mark E. Smith's, Don took photos of patients and Prestwich locals for years. But it's only now that they've been seen.
PREMIERE: Listen to The Fall Buzz a 10-Minute Post-Punk Burner In "Auto Chip 2014-2016"
31 albums, not stopping ever.
“I Don’t Like Northern People, I Don’t Like Mancunians” – Mark E. Smith’s Guide to Britain
Britain's greatest human on why he's never seen The Fall as a Northern band, what went wrong for Sheffield, and the dangers of Bitcoin.
Mark E Smith Bit Down on my Throat Like a Rottweiler on a New-Born
In a new feature, we ask some of our favourite music journalists to cast their lager-braised minds back to the times they met their musical idols.
This is a Real Thing: Check Out a New Track Featuring Members of Napalm Death, The Wildhearts, Sisters of Mercy and The Fall
And It's Actually GOOD And NOT a Trainwreck!
Komplaint Dept. - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Anna Wintour
"Pink is punk" reveals that the New York fashion industry and its sometime institutional handmaiden, the Costume Institute at the Met, its curators and the tacit captain of both ships, Anna Wintour, wouldn't know what punk is or was if it bit them on...
Brix Smith
In the 1980s, Brix Smith was best known as a guitarist in The Fall, and as the wife of its frontman Mark E. Smith, whom she divorced. Brix was one of very few women in British indie at a time when it was still any good.