The incendiary artist Mark Stewart, the main creative force behind the Pop Group, died suddenly and unexpectedly in April 2023, shortly after completing this eighth solo album. It’s a fitting cap to a career that spanned more than four decades and brought together the most uncompromising threads of post-punk, dub, funk, dance and agit-punk.
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Transmissions :: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Eric Random (The Buzzcocks)
This week on Transmissions, a post-punk roundtable with Mark Stewart of The Pop Group, Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire, Eric Random (The Buzzcocks, Nico). On Mark’s latest album, VS, they team up for “Cast No Shadow.” How did post-punk hit their respective places? What role did regionalism play in the music’s development? These three join us for a freewheeling hour of discussion and deconstruction—talking about the VU, German cosmic music, black magic, and more.