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The co-founder of Joy Division and New Order brought his current band, Peter Hook & the Light, for their first Pittsburgh show.
Joy Division were one of the most popular and pioneering post-punk bands of the 1970s and 1980s - but many fans don't know the shocking reason behind the band's name ...
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 ...
Joy Division will mark the 40th anniversary of their landmark 1980 album Closer with a new vinyl reissue, as well as the rerelease of three rare 12″ singles.
Peter Hook and the Light celebrated the music of Joy Division and New Order at the Warfield in San Francisco.
Joy Division's two albums 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Closer' are both considered classics, but which of their records is the best?
On this day in 1980, Closer, the second and final album from Joy Division, was released just two months after the suicide of founding member and singer Ian Curtis. Its claustrophobic, synth-laden ...
Ian Curtis was born on 15th July 1956, but died at the tragically young age of 23 in 1980. Radio X looks at the most-played and most-viewed Joy Division songs.
Anniversary 40 Years Later: Closer & The Last Days Of Joy Division Because of the death of Ian Curtis and the nature of the band's last recordings, Joy Division's Closer is an album around which a ...
Peter Hook looked back on Joy Division's meeting following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis in a September 2023 interview.
Pace Gallery has unveiled an NFT art project that will include previously unheard Joy Division vocal samples. The project was created in collaboration with the influential English rock band’s drummer ...
A Joy Division NFT merges Ian Curtis' voice with the pulsar depicted on the cover of their 'Unknown Pleasures' album.