Ian Curtis and the Emotion of Joy Division
Reminiscing about the enigmatic frontman on what would have been his 65th birthday
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Ian Curtis
‘You Left The Street Thinking You’d Listen To A Record’: 25 Years Of The Raincoats’ Looking in the Shadows
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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Hooky At 65
Celebrating with influential Joy Division/New Order singer and bassist’s first day as a proper senior citizen
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One Will Burn: Closer by Joy Division Turns 40
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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Both of Us Knew How the End Always Is: Disintegration at 30
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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Waiting for a Guide: Forty Years of Unknown Pleasures
Why Joy Division’s 1979 classic debut is so much more than a T-shirt
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