Tag: Joy Division

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant to open for the Pixies during New York ‘Doolittle’ concerts

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant to open for the Pixies during New York ‘Doolittle’ concerts

Bad Lieutenant, Bernard Sumner’s brand-new New Order spinoff, has announced its first-ever live dates this fall in the UK and France, as well as plans […]

John Peel box set to feature unreleased session tracks by The Cure, Elvis Costello

John Peel box set to feature unreleased session tracks by The Cure, Elvis Costello

The late John Peel — the legendary BBC DJ who turned generations of music fans on to new and obscure bands during his nearly 40-year career — will be celebrated this fall with a 4CD, 73-track box set called Kats Karavan: The History of the John Peel Show that features 21 never-before-released recordings.

Video: Nine Inch Nails and Peter Murphy cover Joy Division’s ‘Dead Souls’

Trent Reznor is in the midst of Nine Inch Nails’ “Wave Goodbye 1989-2009” run of small-club farewell concerts, and he’s certainly living up to his […]

Rhino releases its Factory Records box set, ‘Communications 1978-92,’ via iTunes

Rhino releases its Factory Records box set, ‘Communications 1978-92,’ via iTunes

Rhino Records today released a digital version of its four-disc Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 box set via iTunes, collecting 63 tracks — spanning Joy Division […]

Quick Spins: Big Audio Dynamite, Dinosaur Jr, Joy Division, Dukes of Stratosphear

Quick Spins: Big Audio Dynamite, Dinosaur Jr, Joy Division, Dukes of Stratosphear

Epic/Legacy will release an expanded reissue of the 1985 debut from Mick Jones’ terrific post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, on Sept. 8, according to Pause […]

Cassette art: Turning old tapes into Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Ian Brown

Cassette art: Turning old tapes into Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Ian Brown

The alleged vinyl resurgence may be all the rage in the media right now, but for many of us who came of musical age in […]

Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses spotlighted in new book on Manchester scene

Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses spotlighted in new book on Manchester scene

Perhaps best known for his bio “The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop,” Brit rock scribe/musician John Robb has set his sights on […]

In stores Tuesday: The Damned reissues, Joy Division live LP

In stores Tuesday: The Damned reissues, Joy Division live LP

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: The Damned ALBUM: Phantasmagoria, Anything FORMAT: CD BACKSTORY: Expanded and […]