The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the ’80s: 20 – 1
Songs of anxiety, paranoia, freak-outs, chilling verses, feverish desire, harrowing lyrics — they all make for damn good music.
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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.
20 Unsung Music Videos of the 1980s
From major artists like the Clash, David Bowie, and U2 to less famous brethren such as Haysi Fantayzee and Grandmaster Caz, these are the unsung videos from that decade that might have missed your attention the first time around.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 5, Joy Division to Gang of Four
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we conclude with part five featuring Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads and more.
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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 amongst young people today, 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.
Bernard Sumner’s Modest Tales of Joy Division and New Order
Guitarist Bernard Sumner shares his recollections of Joy Division and New Order, both seminal post-punk outfits whose influence cannot be overstated.