The post Ranking: Every Joy Division Song in Honor of Ian Curtis appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Joy Division never wrote a bad song; there just wasn’t any time. In the four years the ...

When singer Ian Curtis hung himself in May 1980, two days before Joy Division’s first North American tour, he abruptly cut short the career of one of the most exciting bands of the era. But despite ...

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it – a true original. Joy Division recorded 53 songs between 1976 and 1980 before breaking up after ...

Only a handful of musicians get to perform in a band that helps mint a genre. Peter Hook can claim to have done it twice. As bassist in Joy Division, he shaped the dark and angular sound of post-punk.

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

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 ...

Peter Hook had planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s Closer — an LP that, due to the death of singer Ian Curtis two months before its release, the band never performed live — ...