Unknown Pleasures' by Joy Division was released on this very day in 1979, pioneering the post-punk movement in the most ...

The death of Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who hanged himself in his kitchen aged 23 on the eve of an American tour – the culmination of spiralling depression, worsening epilepsy and marital ...

It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on May 18 ...

More than three decades have passed since Joy Division emerged from the cultural rubble of post-industrial Manchester, England to rechannel punk rock’s sound and fury into something more sublime.

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 ...

Their shared history was formed in a crucible of loss, as singer Ian Curtis' suicide left his former Joy Division bandmates to carry on with New Order. At first, they were more directly ...

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 ...

It’s incredible how quickly facts that were once common knowledge become obscure tidbits, and it seems that the meaning behind the English rock band Joy Division’s name is no exception.

Bassist Peter Hook worked as a DJ in the years immediately after New Order broke up in 2007, ending his three decades as a founding member of that band along with its predecessor, Joy Division.

Bloxsy performed a medley of 14 riffs that were originally written and played by legendary bassist Peter Hook of Joy Division ...

Joy Division’s iconic debut album cover features a strange white-on-black pattern that has appeared on a million t-shirts ...

So, fans were definitely in for a treat as the legendary bassist revisited the mighty songbooks of his two prior bands — Joy Division and New Order — in amazing fashion at the Warfield in San ...