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To celebrate the 35-year anniversary of Joy Divison's “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” the band will be releasing various efforts from their catalog on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl. Unknown Pleasures and Closer will be available on June 29, while Still and an expanded version of Substance will hit the shelves on July 24. Read more: Joy Division bandmates, family members upset over sale of Ian Curtis’ kitchen […]

Unknown Pleasures, the gloriously bleak debut album by Manchester post-punk band Joy Division arrived exactly one month before lead singer Ian Curtis’ 23rd birthday and 11 months before he would hang himself by the neck and die. June 15, 1979. 40 years ago. Curtis would see a small amount of positive critical reception and modest […]

Moving Units are teaming up with AP to premiere their cover of “Warsaw” by Joy Division featuring Justin Pearson (Retox, Head Wound City). The track will drop on July 29 and is free to the public via Three One G Records. You'll be able to download it right here. The track represents the theme of Moving Units' next […]

“Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to be fun,” Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten told British rock journalist Charles Shaar Murray in 1977. “You’re supposed to enjoy it. It’s not about taking a million fucking years to learn a million fucking chords on the guitar.”  That clarion call — sounded as their anti-royalist diatribe “God Save […]

A video game designed to make you feel bad. That is precisely what creator Gordon Calleja is aiming for with Will Love Tear Us Apart, a new, free-to-play, browser-based game inspired by the Joy Division classic “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” For the uninitiated, Joy Division were one of the most influential acts of the late 1970s post-punk […]

[Photo by: The Velvet Underground/Facebook] Last month marked 50 years since the Velvet Underground released their monumental second album, White Light/White Heat. Issued Jan. 30, 1968, the six-song cornerstone of lo-fi, experimental proto-punk did little (commercially) for the band upon release, but formed long-lasting waves of influence in the budding worlds of punk, noise, indie […]

British shoe company Doc Martens released a series of shoes and shirts celebrating two of the U.K.’s legendary post-punk bands, Joy Division and New Order. READ MORE: Hear “The Rover” from Interpol’s upcoming sixth album, “Marauder” The manufacturer is issuing limited-edition versions of their 1460 style boots with graphics from three respected album covers: Joy […]

Alt-rock veterans Soul Asylum have recorded an album of punk covers for release sometime in the future on a to-be-determined format. Via Rolling Stone: “While some time-tested punk pioneers were covered (the Stooges with 'TV Eye,' the MC5 with 'Shakin' Street,' etc.), there are quite a few lesser known tunes that were tackled as well, […]

Late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis became the topic of music news this week, when his former kitchen table sold on eBay in the UK for £8,400, or nearly $13,500 U.S. Though music memorabilia sales are not uncommon, this particular instance has become a controversial one. The table itself (seen below) was in the very kitchen where Curtis […]

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