The post Ranking: Every Joy Division Song in Honor of Ian Curtis appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Joy Division never wrote a bad song; there just wasn’t any time. In the four years the ...

It’s been hailed as an “indie Stairway To Heaven” but such a comparison arguably undermines its greatness. Almost 35 years since it was released in June 1980, Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

Forgive New Order fans if they took the lyric “I used to think that the day would never come” from 1987’s “True Faith” and applied it to the chances of the band ever playing Pittsburgh again. It has ...

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it – a true original. Joy Division recorded 53 songs between 1976 and 1980 before breaking up after ...

Peter Hook & The Light are set to perform the entire back-catalogue of Joy Division at a one-off charity gig in Macclesfield in May. Find details below. Hook was the bassist for the iconic band, who ...

As the 40th anniversary of the passing of lead singer Ian Curtis approaches on May 18, the music of British post-punk legends Joy Division has grown in popularity. The band's songs are frequently ...

NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 16: ROTTERDAM Photo of Joy Division, Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner (L) performing live onstage at the Lantaren (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) Somewhere in the ‘80s, someone ...

Peter Hook, the bassist for seminal British rock band Joy Division and its successor New Order, has an unusually vivid memory of his first visit to Atlanta on June 17, 1983. And it remains entirely ...

The bittersweet part of The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” remains how the Wigan band imploded following its blockbuster third album, Urban Hymns. Singer Richard Ashcroft and his group had recorded ...