When Daniel Rachel was young, he was a fan of the punk band the Sex Pistols. He would sing along to their song, “Belsen Was a Gas” and not think anything of it. However, soon after he started singing ...

English rock was forever changed in the 70s when Joy Division jumped onto the scene. Nostalgia doesn’t even remotely come close to describing what it’s like to listen to this band today. Joy ...

In a rare literary alignment, estranged icons Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook have both provided extensive interviews for a definitive new career-spanning biography, Joy Division and New Order: Album by ...

Joy Division, the influential post-punk English rock band known for their biggest hit, "Love Will Tear Us Apart," and other impactful music, officially made their live debut under this name on Jan. 25 ...

An English phrase hovers over our public manners: we mustn’t complain. Yet we did, for two years, quietly. Quietly, because in polite societies the ideal victim arrives with a low voice, a neat ...

Most discussion of the most influential band of the 20th Century starts with the Beatles, but Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan offered an interesting suggestion as the runner-up while taping an ...

As we look forward into 2026 and find big anniversaries awaiting celebration – 50 years since their formation, for example – with our latest Deluxe edition Ultimate Music Guide, we’ve taken the ...

When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stepped off a plane wearing a Joy Division t-shirt, he triggered a political storm. A minor one, but one that has us asking: Is wearing a Joy Division ...

That’s how Australian opposition leader Sussan Ley described the actions of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when he returned from the United States. On 23 October, the leader of the centre-left Labor ...

The biggest story in Australian politics this week has involved the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division T-shirt. On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, was ...