Henry Rollins claimed that Joy Division ranks alongside David Bowie and the Rolling Stones, and he's not the only one.

A vast new box set of archival recordings offers answers as to how this young, ramshackle band came to hold the industry in such thrall ...

Few artists have cast as vast an influence in as short a time as Joy Division, the pioneering Manchester post-punk quartet whose dark, haunting songs and sound helped shape many genres and scenes that ...

There are not many between the age of 20 and 50 that don’t know the iconic motif of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. However, it is, perhaps, unlikely that they will know any other of the ...

A little over a year after Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis died by suicide, the remaining members of the band — who were already touring and recording under the name New Order — released the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Eternal' album artwork. (Warner Music) A new Joy Division box set, described as the band's "first-ever official collection of ...

The career of Joy Division — the greatest band of the post-punk era of the late 1970s and early ‘80s — was tragically short, ended by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of just 23: Not ...

The huge compilation will include audio from 16 live performances, sourced from fan-recorded casettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings. All 14CDs were mastered at London’s legendary Abbey ...

Peter Saville was 22 years old, fresh out of college and ready for the opportunity that presented itself. “At that age, no one was asking me to redesign the transit system but somebody asked me to do ...

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 ...

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