Joy Division

Iceage - The Echoplex - 3/29/13

Iceage The Echoplex 3/29/13 Better Than... Throwing elbows to meet Joy Division's Peter Hook at his book signing in Silver Lake a couple weeks ago. To say that the lads in Copenhagen band Iceage don't give a fuck would not be entirely accurate, but it goes a ways in expressing the group's effortl ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 29 Fol Chen BOOTLEG THEATER Fol Chen is one of the most creative bands in the local electro-pop underground, conjuring unusual sounds that flutter, mutate, shimmer and trail sparks just as colorfully as the flying fish and luminous butterflies in Oz the Great and Powerful. While the m ... More >>

Ode to Joy Division

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 2-4

Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>

New Order - The Greek Theatre - 10/7/12

New Order The Greek Theatre 10/7/12 A lot has changed for New Order since they last played Los Angeles in 2001. Longtime bassist Peter Hook criticized and subsequently left the band, and in 2009 after their second break-up singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner vowed to never make music again with them. I ... More >>

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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Music From Down Under

KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister Fanatics! I am still here in Australia. The shows have been going great and I have been picking up a lot of great Australian music that we will throw into the mix in ou ... More >>

[Updated] Jamie Oliver DOES NOT Find Joy Division and New Order Master Tapes in Basement of New Manchester Eatery

Update: 2/15/12 3:00 p.m. We should have known this was as bogus as the prospect of a goat on a leash getting down (in the video) to a band bolstered by the drumming talents of a man known to cheerily carve and cook domesticated beasts. NME was wrong and so were we. The treasures used to reside ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Be Grateful While You Grind

Life is a Runway; see Sat. ​It's almost Thanksgiving, y'all! Here are a few things to be thankful for while clubbing this week in Los Angeles: 1) the diversity and sheer magnitude of party offerings here, 2) the great DJs bred and based in the city and the great DJs always stopping through on ... More >>

Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low

Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others

Peter Hook and The Light - The Music Box -9/14/11

Daniel Kohn​Peter Hook and The Light The Music Box 9/14/11 See also: Peter Hook on Joy Division and New Order: "Ian Curtis Was Too Unique a Person to Copy" Better Than... attending the X-Factor premier. When a musician reaches back into his catalog and hits the road playing a classic album, ... More >>

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 >>

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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Ludos, Buzzcocks, Joy Division

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>

Q&A with Joy Division's Peter Hook

An album tour of Unknown Pleasures resonates with fans

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

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 >>

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

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Over the Weekend: The National ( Ramona Falls) at the Wiltern

Photograph by Paul R. Giunta courtesy of Prefix MagazineThe National​Before seeing The National at The Wiltern, I already had cheap shots ready for this introduction, all centered on one cold, snarky question: Is Joy Division from Brooklyn? On Saturday night, as the sun dropped into the down ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Xeno and Oaklander at the Echo

​The Part Time Punks showcase last Sunday at the Echo expanded the definition of "punk" into the current mini-craze for the "Cold-Wave" or "minimal synth" genre. As Cold-Wave evangelist and pioneering organizer of New York's Wierd parties Peter Schoolwerth told Dazed & Confused recently, "I ge ... More >>

Bassist Wanted: Interpol's Carlos D. Retires, Band Seeks Replacement

Bassist Wanted: Interpol's Carlos D. Retires, Band Seeks Replacement

A New Documentary Profiles Obsessed Depeche Mode Fans Around the World

Depeche Mode ought to reach out and touch British filmmakers Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller for making the most loving and life-affirming documentary about their fans. First off, Trent Reznor pops up for a sizeable interview, and when the elusive Mr. Self Destruct talks about his influences, you dr ... More >>

Club Hypothetical: What's the One Album That a New Goth Fan Should Own?

Trends may come and go, but there will always be young people gravitating towards music that's dark, dramatic and a little raw around the edges. Though the kids dressed in black now might be more into Interpol, The Killers and AFI than Joy Division, The Cure and Sisters of Mercy, they're probably re ... More >>

El Ten Eleven Cover Joy Division: Exclusive MP3!

El Ten Eleven Cover Joy Division exclusive MP3!

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/2 - 11/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "My friend called me distraught. 'I just ate Iggy!'" Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate. "Cooking for me is a game. My life isn't boring, trust me!" LudoBites Re ... More >>

Part Time Punks Festival Weekend: Raincoats, Gang of Four, and more.

Part Time Punks Festival Weekend: Raincoats, Gang of Four, and more.

Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)

Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>

Partying Like It's 1983: Part-Time Punks Announce Post-Punk Fest Featuring A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Savage Republic, Vivian Girls and More

A Certain Ratio's "Shack Up" This just in from the great Part-Time Punks posse: Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues ... More >>

Last Night: War Tapes Get Deft 'n Dramatic at Club Moscow, September 24

It's a joy to watch War Tapes' self-esteem and song craft increasingly outshine their CD collections. While the local quartet’s early efforts (like "Supposed Human," aired tonight) might have had Interpol's attorneys reaching for the phones, lately their hefty hooks, deft ‘n dramatic dynamics a ... More >>

Brit Post-Punk Geniuses Wire to Play Echoplex in October

Celebrate Joy Division all you want, but my money goes on Wire as the greatest of the post-punk bands (ask me on a different day and I'll tell you the Fall). The only difference is a suicide, and a bigger focus on minimalism (okay, not the only difference). Want proof as to the genius of Wire? See b ... More >>

Foxtail Wagging

Bolthouse unlocked; playing out; reel rock & roll

Joy Division to the World

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

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait, Control, proves the exception to the rock-biopic drool

In Control

Anton Corbijn masters the moving image

Meet Your Favorite New Band(s)

The National, The Broken West The El Rey Theatre, June 26

E.L.O. Is for Lovers!

Class Honors

HONOR ROLL

Twists and Kisses

Ear pretzels from Television

It’s High Time

Blood Rush

No more Coldplay, show us the love

Letters

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

The Ghosts of 'Madchester'

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?

New Dawn Fades

Joy Division's grim effervescence

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Ian Curtis, 1956 - 1980: No Rest, No Peace By Tony Wilson from his memoir 24 Hour Party People

From the Shadows

Joy Division's tell-tale heart