Rhino's reissuing Joy Division's studio albums on vinyl and CD, and releasing the soundtrack to the biopic, Control -- which is directed by Anton Corbijn, the photographer noted for his rich ...

Brilliant album… shame about the second one.”But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after ...

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it — a true original. A co-founder of both that group and New Order, Peter Hook has been ...

But that band rarely played songs from its Joy Division past, he says, and with the 30th anniversary of Curtis’s death in 2010, Hook thought there might be a way for him to celebrate that legacy.

His dissatisfaction leading to a self-imposed do-over, Crumbaugh has come forth with a new remaster of a Joy Division performance recorded at the University of London Union on Feb. 8, 1980, featuring ...

With a recorded legacy once founded almost exclusively on two studio albums, the last couple of years has seen the basis of Joy Division's stature as one of rock and roll's greatest bands shift to a ...

Peter Hook is on tour RIGHT NOW in North America with his band The Light. The group is playing ALL of Joy Division 's Unknown Pleasures and Closer AND are doing a opening set of New Order hits! It's ...

Joy Division’s influence far outweighs its commercial success as the band’s only two studio albums, Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980), have influenced everyone from U2 to The Cure.

John Peel ‘s BBC 1 radio show was highly influential, giving so many bands their first radio exposure over the nearly 40 years he was on the air. His show also featured original studio sessions ...

Listen to both and watch a video shot in the studio below. If you’re in NYC you can see abazaba live tonight at Mercury Lounge and Eugene Hutz will be with them.

Peter Hook had planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Joy Division ’s Closer — an LP that, due to the death of singer Ian Curtis two months before its release, the band never performed ...

Noel Gallagher has saluted his Manchester rock forefathers Joy Division by covering the band’s classic “Love Will Tear Us Apart” today (June 1) on the BBC Radio 2 series Piano Room.