Subject:

Bernard Sumner

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    LinA In LA Party Picks: Set Your Watches For Pacific Standard Time

    East Village West; see Sat.​Get ready for a host of arty parties in the coming days, as Pacific Standard Time and Fashion Week events take over town. There's also a sure-to-be ferocious fun tribute night pitting two '80s faves against each other on the dance floor, as well as two pop-in worthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Peter Hook on Joy Division and New Order: "Ian Curtis Was Too Unique a Person to Copy"

    Mark McNultyPeter Hook​Peter Hook, the potent bassist of Joy Division and New Order, who had just returned from sunny Spain, sat in the comforts of rain and gloom in his native England home while we talked over a crackly phone connection last Thursday morning. Hook and his backing band The Li ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Q&A with Joy Division's Peter Hook

    An album tour of Unknown Pleasures resonates with fans

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Joy Division's Peter Hook: "We Wanted to Sound Like The Damned and The Sex Pistols"

    ​After a Joy Division U.S. tour was thwarted 30 years ago, the opportunity for most Americans to hear the band's 1979 debut album live was, much like its title, an unknown pleasure. For the past several months, Peter Hook -- without fellow Joy Division/New Order members Bernard Sumner and Step ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl

    Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl​ LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

    By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

  • Music

    October 18, 2007

    Joy Division to the World

    Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

  • Music

    January 27, 2005

    Resistance Is Futile

    The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender

  • Music

    December 30, 2004

    Woman vs. Machine

    As persona overtakes person, Love, Angel, Music, Baby shows Gwen Stefani still drives her own ambition

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    Boomslangers

    As persona overtakes person, Love, Angel, Music, Baby shows Gwen Stefani still drives her own ambition

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    A Mythic Thing

    Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    New Dawn Fades

    Joy Division's grim effervescence

  • Music

    March 12, 1998

    From the Shadows

    Joy Division's tell-tale heart

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