A Certain Ratio announce ‘The Joy of Sextet’ and ‘Force Majeure’ on Mute
A Certain Ratio, the English post-punk and funk band from Greater Manchester, will release two companion albums, "The Joy of...
A Certain Ratio
Cult English post-punk band A Certain Ratio share Emperor Machine’s reworking of ‘Constant Curve’
(Photo by Paul Husband) A Certain Ratio, commonly abbreviated as ACR, is an influential English post-punk band that originated in...
Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal announce ‘A Quiet Corner in Time (Exquisite Corpse)’ album featuring Nik Colk Void, Alessandro Cortini, Yann Tiersen and more
(Photo by Neil Thomson - left to right: Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal) Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund...
The bands that caused the bankruptcy of Factory Records: New Order and Happy Mondays
Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus. The label...
Artefacts of the early days of Factory Records put on exhibition in London
(Photos and text by our UK correspondent Simon Helm) Original posters from The Factory club, along with the first steps...
The Normal returns on Mute Records after 40 years of silence… with more silence
Earlier this year, in January to be precise, we posted this article "When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’...
When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’ (feat. Laibach, Depeche Mode, …)
Last year we had the idea to create an April Fools prank with a fake compilation with a lot of...
