If you're a music fan, you've likely heard of the rock band Joy Division, which was created in Salford in 1976. The ensemble included vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and ...

It’s been hailed as an “indie Stairway To Heaven” but such a comparison arguably undermines its greatness. Almost 35 years since it was released in June 1980, Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart ...

The bittersweet part of The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” remains how the Wigan band imploded following its blockbuster third album, Urban Hymns. Singer Richard Ashcroft and his group had recorded ...

Forgive New Order fans if they took the lyric “I used to think that the day would never come” from 1987’s “True Faith” and applied it to the chances of the band ever playing Pittsburgh again. It has ...

Former members of Joy Division have spoken of their regret following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. The band's frontman killed himself in May 1980 at the age of 23 after suffering depression over ...

Peter Hook & The Light, led by former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook, have revealed plans for a 2025 North American tour, where they will perform New Order’s 2001 album “Get Ready” in ...

Last month at his FAC251 nightclub in Manchester, bassist Peter Hook paid tribute to his late Joy Division bandmate, Ian Curtis, by playing the band's 1979 masterpiece Unknown Pleasures in its ...

Richmond metal-punks Private Hell have lately been talking about their plan to knock out a series of self-released flexis. The first of those EPs is called Wake Up Screaming, and it came out last ...