Mark Stewart & The Maffia will play live at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, as part of the On-U Sound 40th anniversary celebrations alongside Tackhead, African Head Charge, Creation Rebel, Gaudi, Horace Andy & many more
Disturbing the Comfortable & Comforting the Disturbed, the choice is On-U!
The Vinyl Edition of 'Y in Dub' by The Pop Group & Dennis Bovell is finally here!
⚫ Double Heavyweight Black Vinyl
📦 Brown Kraft Board Sleeve
🎨 Exclusive Poster created by Garth O'Donnell & Sara Dalimore
Out Now on Mute Records
'Inertia is essential to the survival of evil. Let the chorus of raging angels lead you to a life worth living. Don’t dissolve, get involved!'
Vive Le Rock premieres the new video for 'Rage of Angels' by Mark Stewart featuring Belgian EBM pioneers Front 242, taken from Mark Stewart's new album 'VS' 🎥 📺
Video by Charlie Marbles
'VS' is out now via Emergency Hearts
Listen / Order
The new video for the Leaether Strip mix of 'Cast No Shadow' by Mark Stewart vs Stephen Mallinder vs Eric Random, as featured in Louder Than War Magazine
Directed by Nikolaos Katranis & Russell Craig Richardson, the makers of the new post-punk documentary 'Rip It Up And Start Again', the film that inspired 'Cast No Shadow'
'Cast No Shadow' is taken from Mark Stewart's new album 'VS' on Emergency Hearts & is also available as a Limited Edition 7"
Read the Louder Than War piece
Listen / Order 'Cast No Shadow' Ltd Edition 7" + Listen / Order 'VS'
Dub Devastation at the Ruins! ⛪ 💥
'Live Y in Dub' - a new 3-track live EP by The Pop Group & Dennis Bovell
Recorded at the 2021 live premiere of 'Y in Dub' from Coventry Cathedral Ruins
For Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 curated by Terry Hall
Out now digitally via Mute Records
Listen / Download
Tune into the On-U Sound Sunday Roast on The Widgeon Theatre Boat airwaves on Sunday 27th March for an interview with Mark Stewart, hosted by David Asher
Plus music from 'VS', Mark's new album featuring collaborations with Adrian Sherwood, Lee 'Scratch' Perry & many more
8:00 pm UK time, 4:00 pm EST
'This music is meant to resonate with the raw stardust in your bones - the ancient heat in your blood'
Presenting Mark Stewart's new album project 'VS', each track a different collaborator, featuring the likes of Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Front 242's Patrick Codenys, Mike Watt, Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio, Eric Random, Consolidated & more
Hear a new track entitled 'Cast No Shadow' w/ 'the Jandek of post-punk' Eric Random and the one & only Stephen Mallinder, a post-punk holy trinity, mix by Leaether Strip - via BrooklynVegan.
'VS' is out 1st April 2022 via Emergency Hearts, available on Limited Edition CD + Digital Formats
'Cast No Shadow' Limited Edition 7" Picture Disc Lathe + 'All of My Senses' Limited Edition 7" Picture Disc + T-Shirt also available
The Devil's Jukebox, Mark Stewart's new radio show on Black Rhino Radio w/ Romanian journalist & broadcaster Andrei Bucureci aka Obeah Bucureci.
The product of a deep mutual love for pirate radio, dub, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Dennis Bovell, Rodion GA, Eastern EU experimental music, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Frankenstein, collages and Peter Kennard.
Hear future episodes HERE.
'Alpha', a new collaboration w/ Lee 'Scratch' Perry (RIP), Adrian Sherwood, Peter Harris & Fritz Catlin of 23 Skidoo (drums & melodica), video by Aloha Dead
Video Premiere via FLOOD Magazine - Listen / Read
A Christmas message from Mark Stewart: 'Merry Christmas everyone, if you're feeling charitable all profits from my new collaborative track 'Alpha' during the festive period will be donated to the Alpha Institute (formerly the Alpha Boys School) in Kingston, Jamaica in honour of Lee 'Scratch' Perry (RIP)'
'Alpha’s music program helped launch the careers of key contributors to jazz as well as pioneers of ska and reggae'
Limited Lathe Cut & Digital
Out Now via Emergency Hearts
'A writhing, slithering dirge broadcast through glowing cathode-ray televisions'
Post-Punk.com premieres the video for 'The Supermen' by Nun Gun, a deconstructive cover of David Bowie featuring Mark Stewart - Read
Nun Gun is ½ of Algiers with artist Brad Feuerhelm & special guests
🎥 Directed by Sam Campbell
Taken from the Nun Gun / MS collaborative LP 'Stealth Empire In Dub'
'Each track is given the studio-as-instrument treatment as they’re drenched in effects and mutated into strange new shapes, it’s like hearing the album again for the first time'
'It's like taking Dennis Bovell in a TARDIS back to that studio & saying Dub it!'
Jesse Locke / FLOOD Magazine interviews Mark Stewart about 'Y in Dub', time travel, the magic of experimentation & more - Read
'Y in Dub' - CD | Cassette | Digital
Out now on Mute Records
Vinyl out 25th March 2022
MS in conversation with Tangent Books for the 'Tangent Calling' Podcast
Discussing a personal history of dub music, 'Y in Dub', the work of Dennis Bovell & Lee 'Scratch' Perry*, the early days of punk, the dub-influenced production style of The Pop Group and much more
Tangent Books is a radical Bristol publisher that celebrates the city’s counter culture.
*Podcast recorded before the passing of the mighty Lee 'Scratch' Perry (RIP)
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