20 Overlooked 1980s Music Videos
From major artists like the Clash and David Bowie to less famous brethren like Haysi Fantayzee and Grandmaster Caz, these are overlooked videos from the 1980s.
joy division
Upon the Edge of No Escape: Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ at 45
A unique-sounding album, Unknown Pleasures retains the dark mystery of Ian Curtis and Joy Division while anticipating future moods and genres.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever
Explore 50 of the most brilliant, impactful, innovative, and controversial albums of the classic post-punk era, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations.
The Kids Are Alt-Right: How Punk Got Co-opted by Fascism
Like political populism, punk’s traits and tenets are sufficiently vague, contradictory, and unmoored to be vulnerable to co-option by all political opportunists—including the fascist alt-right.
The 15 Best New Order Songs
New Order’s danceable rhythms and quick, clean melodies inspired a slew of paler imitators then and a new onslaught of dance-punk bands in the past few decades.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Lists/Love in the Time of Coronavirus/Music/Playlists/SAVE/ IGNORE: popular
Coronavirus Tunes: A Brief Playlist for Our Times of Self-Isolation
As coronavirus spreads throughout the world and many of us hunker down with online media, we offer eight songs that share our feeling of seclusion.
Darkness Illuminates: Goth Punk’s Great Escapism
While goth punk’s theatricality dramatizes concerns about depression and suicide, its safe spaces are inviting to the otherwise alienated and ostracized.
Industrial Punk: Here’s a Finger, Now Form a Band!
For Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, punk's sonic harshness was welcome but it did not go far enough.
There’s Room in Joy Division’s Expansive Universe for Jon Savage’s ‘This Searing Light…’
Can Jon Savage's literal book This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else close the metaphoric book on Joy Division once and for all?
Joy Division and Jon Savage’s Latest, ‘This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else’
Jon Savage's This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else, marks a time for considering how Joy Division became, and continues to be, so popular.
Moving Units: Damage With Care
Moving Units has always crafted eminently danceable, melodically infectious dance-punk. With Damage With Care, nothing changes.
New Order US Tour Kicks Off with Bang at Radio City (Photos)
New Order return to the U.S. for a short tour in support of their latest album Music Complete and visit the Late Show for a performance while in New York.