At the point in their career when they recorded Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division were one of the most vital new bands in ...

The career of Joy Division - the greatest band of the post-punk era of the late 1970s and early ‘80s - was tragically short, ended by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of just 23: Not ...

Lately, the former Joy Division/New Order bassist Peter Hook has been touring with a new band, the Light, and playing Joy Division's classic album Unknown Pleasures in full at every show. Hook and his ...

There are not many between the age of 20 and 50 that don’t know the iconic motif of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. However, it is, perhaps, unlikely that they will know any other of the ...

An NFT celebrating Joy Division‘s wavy Unknown Pleasures artwork will include previously unheard vocal samples from the band. The new piece renders the pulsar from the cover as audio, which is then ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Exactly 36 years since Ian Curtis, the frontman of post-punk band Joy ...

No one’s questioning the fact that Joy Division’s catalog isn’t exactly the most positive, uplifting group of songs out there. Although the band’s time together was eye-blink fast, they left behind a ...

Frank Sinatra was an unlikely inspiration for one of the most iconic songs of the 1980s ...