Staying Hospitable During Our Nation's Division

Local restaurateurs discuss civility at the table

"...that they can all be unified around – like joy, delicious biscuits, and love – you don't even have..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...source of the driving and defining bass lines of Joy Division and New Order, playing in America has always..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Control

Control, Anton Corbijn's narrative portrait of Joy Division's suicidal singer, Ian Curtis, is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.

"...the singer and emotional epicenter for doomy Brit post-punkers Joy Division, Riley is like some splintery, spastic matchstick man,..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Known Pleasures

Anton Corbijn's 'Control' plays the first Alamo Music Monday of 2012

"...very day the Alamo screens the fine, dirgey, 2007 Joy Division feature Control, it's looking less Warsaw and all..."

Jan. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

24 Hour Party People

"...and Paddy Considine. It doesn't matter if you think Joy Division is queer math, or if your knowledge of..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Luck Review: Peter Hook & the Light

A cover band with substance

"...catalogs of both his former band and post-punk icons Joy Division – the other iconic act of which he..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Hooky follows up Joy Division with money-hemorrhaging Madchester club

"...Peter Hook dreamed of Unknown Pleasures: his time in Joy Division, a landmark band that made no money. Manchester..."

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Metaldom Will Miss Red 7

Closing club moshes this final week

"...Timmy Hefner, Australian pop hardcores Royal Headache unleashed “destructive joy” on the venue’s front room for 34 hold-your-breath minutes...."

Aug. 24, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Joy Division

Gift Guide

"...Joy DivisionUnknown Pleasures (Factory/Rhino) Joy DivisionCloser (Factory/Rhino) Joy DivisionStill (Factory/Rhino)..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Joy Division

Record Review

"...Joy DivisionHeart & Soul (Rhino)..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Joy Division, New Order

"...Joy DivisionThe Complete BBC Recordings (Fuel 2000)New OrderBBC Radio 1..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

Where's Hooky?

"...When Joy Division guitarist-turned-New Order guitarist/vocalist Bernard Sumner sets his record..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Joy DivisionD: Grant Gee; with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Over the Wall

Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.

"...we were into a lot of the Manchester bands. Joy Division and the Fall were two of our favorite..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...CHAPTERS10pm, Blender Bar Balcony @ the Ritz Mastering the Joy Division/Interpol blend might seem old-school, but Austin's Chapters do..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Reissues

"...happy to report that Silver City is a rather enjoyable collection of highlights from Rollins' long collaboration with Milestone...."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

So This Is Permanence

Move over Kurt Cobain Journals

"...foreword to So This Is Permanence. Sourced by the Joy Division frontman's notebooks, this clothbound hardcover spans the British..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Back when punk rock got really loud

"...Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Divisionby Peter Hook It/Harper Collins, 416 pp., $27.99..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gayplace: Join Our Krewe

Joy Division, Madame X, John Cameron Mitchell, Erasure, Christeene, Dan Savage, and Diana Ross make this a star-studded week in gay.

"...JOY DIVISION: CLOSER 2007 Don't lose control. Come watch this..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Column

The Pleasure Principle

Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pall

"...in hope, that's what came out of their guitars. Joy Division, Wire, PiL, Gang of Four, the Fall, Suicide..."

April 25, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Coast

A small-town girl falls for a touring band

"...(a feeling not helped by the heavy use of Joy Division, and Siouxsie and the Banshees). In part, that's..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shoplifters of the World

Airheads for mopey goths

"...haven't worked out how dreadful Morrissey is, or that Joy Division were the better Manchester band. As were the..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review

Sunday ACL Fest Picks

"...Atrocity Exhibition, named after a J.G. Ballard novel and Joy Division song, finally thrust him out of semi-novelty into..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature

We Are the Best!

Lukas Moodysson gives us a captivating portrait of 13-year-old proto-punk girls in 1982 Sweden.

"...Klara on to punk, has since moved on to Joy Division.) But for now, punk is their passion, and..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Lot to Crow About

Goth comic king James O'Barr at Staple! this weekend

"...a comic that really got it. Initially I used Joy Division lyrics without permission because it was a little..."

March 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interviews

Wovenhand

"...and from punk rock I got into bands like Joy Division and the Birthday Party, people that were really..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Order

Movement: The Factory Years; Power, Corruption & Lies: The Factory Years; Low-Life: The Factory Years; Brotherhood: The Factory Years; Technique: The Factory Years

"...Joy Division's abrupt end via the suicide of singer Ian..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Pop Goes the Culture

The SAMOPC hosts a night of music and a movie

"...Corbijn's acclaimed biopic of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division before committing suicide at the age of 23...."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by John Davidson

Thursday Picks

"...choristers and the London Symphonia performing Beethoven's Ode to Joy," recalls Bragg. "Well, they wanted someone to write a..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Blood and Chocolate

Lycanthropy and young love: not as yummy as it sounds but nowhere near as godawful as Van Helsing, a small mercy but very much appreciated.

"...have to suffer through Philistine's horrifically bad reimagining of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart.") Which, come to..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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