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.
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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.
19 Jun 2019
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?
19 Apr 2019
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.
02 Apr 2019
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.
26 Jan 2017
Moving Units: Damage With Care
Moving Units has always crafted eminently danceable, melodically infectious dance-punk. With Damage With Care, nothing changes.
07 Jun 2016
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.
17 Mar 2016
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.
06 Dec 2015
Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me
Bernard Sumner artfully describes where the music of Joy Division came from; distilled to a single cold, bleak, industrial Manchester night.
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Books
02 Nov 2015
The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: Part 5: 20 - 1
Songs of anxiety, paranoia, freak-outs, chilling verses, feverish desire, harrowing lyrics -- they all make for damn good music.
01 Oct 2015
"The Goodness of Privacy in a Warm Room with Books"
We all search for escape, and while music, drugs, radicalism, or fame may ease the monotony, the protagonists of so many of these tales find themselves at the end of their narratives still constrained.
03 Feb 2014
'Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division' Enters the Void but Survives the Plunge Valiantly
"On the one hand, he was ill and vulnerable; on the other, he was a screaming rock god." By taking Ian Curtis down to his own level, Peter Hook provides his mate with a fitting tribute, neither sordid nor facile, neither pat nor pandering.
31 Jan 2013
5 Great Bands (Spun Off from Other Great Bands)
Not every band borne out of a great predecessor can measure up. Here are five that do.
08 Aug 2012
Cygnets: Dark Days
Canadian trio offers up mixed bag that's heavy on the cold, light on the bold.
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Music
29 May 2012
Total Control: Henge Beat
Down under supergroup mixes Joy Division, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, and Devo for a good time.
27 Mar 2012
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