Industrial music pioneer and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has written her autobiography. Art Sex Music is the story of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades. It is the account…
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New Faber Social website launches today
The new Faber Social website goes live today. It represents our editorial commitment to the finest writing about, and from within, the world of popular music. There are close to 100 books listed, in print and on the backlist, and I would modestly claim this is an unrivaled catalogue, featuring some of the finest artists and…
Jaki Liebezeit, 1938-2017
Earlier this week, Jaki Liebezeit, drummer in the hugely influential German band Can, sadly died. Rob Young, author of Electric Eden and a forthcoming biography of the band, considers this wildly gifted, cerebral, generous musician. The drumming of Jaki Liebezeit, who died of a sudden bout of pneumonia on 22 January 2017 at the age of…
How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
This is the story of how the first generation of British teenagers changed our pop music from being jazz-based to guitar-led. Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive generation of working-class youth, the songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg charts the history, impact and legacy of skiffle –…
Extract: This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Publishes on 2 February 2017. I got another group together but it was a heavy scene, we were into shit like Wire, Gang of Four, Eyeless in Gaza, This Heat, scratchy shit basically. Keith Levene’s guitar playing on Metal Box was massive. The lead singer – I was playing bass – was into new wave French…
Faber Social announce the publication of Porcelain by Moby in June 2016
Faber Social is proud to announce publication of Porcelain by Moby in June 2016; one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the New York City club…
Faber Social Pop-Up Shop in London
Faber Social is thrilled to announce the opening of a dedicated and exclusive pop-up shop on Cecil Court in a venture with Natalie Galustian Rare Books. The shop will stock recent and forthcoming titles by the likes of Ian Curtis, Van Morrison, Viv Albertine, Julian Cope, Simon Reynolds, Bob Stanley and many others, alongside a…
When Manchester Came to London
Last Thursday Faber hosted a party at the soon-to-be re-housed (in Cecil Court) Amuti Gallery, to celebrate the publication of Kevin Cummins’ incomparably beautiful photo-documentary trip through Manchester pop since 1976, Manchester: Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain. Faber’s Lee Brackstone reports back … Rumours of the appearance of Manc royalty fuelled the…
