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. It was ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of his Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis’s death, Peter Hook will stage a one-off concert with his band, the Light, during which they’ll play every single song ever ...

Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has waited almost 30 years to become a star of stage and screen, so he's not going to let a little thing like being dead interfere with his Moment. And with Rhino's ...

Today would have marked the 57th birthday of Ian Curtis, who was born on July 15, 1956. Though the Joy Division front man tragically took his own life 33 years ago, it’s telling of the legacy he left ...

When Peter Hook & the Light arrive at Grand Central this Friday night to perform the music of Joy Division, he will be playing the same stage where Peter Murphy delivered his tribute to Bauhaus two ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day (Jan. 25) in 1978, Joy Division played their first live gig, a moment that is often credited with kicking off the post-punk era. The iconic, yet short-lived rock outfit – made up of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A few months into 1980, the British post-punk group Joy Division were ...

The Internet can work in totally un-mysterious ways, at times. Thursday afternoon, a grim b&w image of the Teletubbies was passed around the Internet via Reddit. And, by morning, that image — noted by ...

The intertwined sagas of Joy Division and New Order will be chronicled in the upcoming podcast, Transmissions: The Definitive Story, premiering October 29th. The first run of eight episodes will ...