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The Fall's final album featuring late frontman Mark E. Smith is in the final stages. Ed Blaney, who had a brief stint as their manager and even became a member of the group in the 2000s, has confirmed ...

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Mark E Smith poses with other members of The Fall. CREDIT: Kevin Cummins/Getty Images A posthumous “final” album from The Fall is coming out, eight years after the death of Mark E Smith. The last ...

A new box set, assembled for Davis’ centennial, collects a casually superlative set of recordings from the icon and his all-star quintet that seems to distill jazz’s past and peer into its future. In ...