Joy Division were one of the most popular and pioneering post-punk bands of the 1970s and 1980s - but many fans don't know the shocking reason behind the band's name ...

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 b ...

If you're a music fan, you'll probably have heard of rock band Joy Division, who formed in Salford back in 1976. The group comprised vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and ...

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 ...

New Order headlines the Cruel World festival on May 17 alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It’s an unexpected ’80s revival ...

The two bands from Manchester, U.K., laid the foundation for the massively influential body of music we call post-punk, an ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Framed within the cinema's huge proscenium arch, Joy Division walk out and launch into "Dead Souls". The peculiarity of this song is that it has a long, rolling introduction that allows the group ...

Joy Division wasn’t around for too long (although after the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members formed the long-running New Order). They left their mark on music, though, with songs like ...