The post Ranking: Every Joy Division Song in Honor of Ian Curtis appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Joy Division never wrote a bad song; there just wasn’t any time. In the four years the ...

In the seemingly infinite discussion of influence, Joy Division’s place in the halls of music’s most revered is just as sure as the band’s equally esteemed mythos. Generations of fans old enough to ...

When singer Ian Curtis hung himself in May 1980, two days before Joy Division’s first North American tour, he abruptly cut short the career of one of the most exciting bands of the era. But despite ...

As the 40th anniversary of the passing of lead singer Ian Curtis approaches on May 18, the music of British post-punk legends Joy Division has grown in popularity. The band's songs are frequently ...

NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 16: ROTTERDAM Photo of Joy Division, Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner (L) performing live onstage at the Lantaren (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) On the morning of May 18, 1980 — ...

Only a handful of musicians get to perform in a band that helps mint a genre. Peter Hook can claim to have done it twice. As bassist in Joy Division, he shaped the dark and angular sound of post-punk.

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

Peter Hook had planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s Closer — an LP that, due to the death of singer Ian Curtis two months before its release, the band never performed live — ...

To mark the 40th anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis‘ death, Mark Lanegan teamed up with Cold Cave for an icy rendition of “Isolation,” a track off of Joy Division’s final album, 1980’s ...

In the seemingly infinite discussion of influence, Joy Division's place in the halls of music's most revered is just as sure as the band's equally esteemed mythos. Generations of fans old enough to ...