Ian Curtis

Blues Remembrance Rock 

Mean Town Blues: Johnny Winter at 80

February 23, 2024February 27, 2024 Jim Sullivan 3 Comments 80th birthday, Blues, Edgar Winter, guitar, Ian Curtis, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, RIP, Shane MacGowan, Texas, Warren Zevon

Memories of witnessing the late electric guitar great in concert

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Films Rock 

Anton Corbijn Shines a Light on the Album Art of Hipgnosis in New Film

June 7, 2023March 4, 2026 Kathy Fennessy 0 Comments 10cc, Anton Corbijn, Depeche Mode, Documentaries, Glen Matlock, Hipgnosis, Ian Curtis, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Nick Mason, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Soft Machine, Squaring The Circle, Storm Thorgerson, The Sex Pistols, Wings

Squaring the Circle premieres tonight at New York’s Film Forum

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Alternative Rock Dance Dance Rock New Wave Post-Punk Rock 

We All Stand: New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies at 40

May 10, 2023May 10, 2023 Jason Gross 0 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, Age of Consent, Bernard Sumner, Depeche Mode, Gillian Gilbert, Ian Curtis, Interpol, Joy Division, LCD Soundsystem, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Hook, Power Corruption & Lies, Stephen Morris, The Cure, The Killers

Looking back on the Manchester greats’ transitional second album

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New Wave Post-Punk 

Ian Curtis and the Emotion of Joy Division

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Bernard Sumner, Closer, Gillian Gilbert, Ian Curtis, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Order, Stephen Morris, Unknown Pleasures

Reminiscing about the enigmatic frontman on what would have been his 65th birthday

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Art Pop Indie Rock Post-Punk 

‘You Left The Street Thinking You’d Listen To A Record’: 25 Years Of The Raincoats’ Looking in the Shadows

June 15, 2021June 20, 2021 Zachary Corsa 1 Comment 1996, Ana de Silva, Ari Up, DGC, Gina Birch, Ian Curtis, Looking in the Shadows, Mark E. Smith, Martin Hannett, Palmolive, The Raincoats, Tony Wilson

With endorsements from Kim Gordon and Kurt Cobain, the UK art punk legends landed on Geffen Records for their underrrated fourth LP

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Dance Dance Rock New Wave Post-Punk Punk 

Hooky At 65

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Happy Birthday, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook, Peter Hook and The Light

Celebrating with influential Joy Division/New Order singer and bassist’s first day as a proper senior citizen

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New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance Rock 

One Will Burn: Closer by Joy Division Turns 40

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1980, Bernard Sumner, Closer, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris

On the 40th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s sudden, self-inflicted departure, we look back at his band’s greatest album

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Alternative Rock 

Both of Us Knew How the End Always Is: Disintegration at 30

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 T.A. Inskeep 1 Comment 1989, Cureation 25, Disintegration, Ian Curtis, Robert Smith, The Cure

As their stunning new concert film comes to home video, one writer explores the importance of a goth-rock masterpiece to an 18-year-old Midwestern boy in the summer of 1989

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Alternative Rock New Wave Punk 

Waiting for a Guide: Forty Years of Unknown Pleasures

June 11, 2019July 9, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Joy Division at the Apollo, Red disk, Unknown Pleasures

Why Joy Division’s 1979 classic debut is so much more than a T-shirt

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