Mark Stewart and the Maffia

Post-punk renegade Mark Stewart's early, Adrian Sherwood-produced solo efforts were credited to Mark Stewart and the Maffia (or similar variations, such as Mark Stewart + Maffia). Releases such as the groundbreaking 1983 full-length Learning to Cope with Cowardice were volatile, confrontational bursts of distorted dub rhythms and radical politics. Over the coming decades, these recordings heavily influenced industrial, trip-hop, illbient, digital hardcore, and other forms of subversive, counter-cultural music. Bristol native Stewart first became known as the leader of post-pu...