More than three decades have passed since Joy Division emerged from the cultural rubble of post-industrial Manchester, England to rechannel punk rock’s sound and fury into something more sublime ...

We’ve pored over Joy Division’s discography to take a look at some of those moments. In honor of what would be frontman Ian Curtis’ 56th birthday, ...

Joy Division - Curtis, guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris - formed on the Manchester music scene in the late 1970s. They released first album Unknown Pleasures in ...

It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on May 18, 1980.

Joy Division’s album Closer will be reissued for its 40th anniversary on vinyl on 17 July, with three remastered non-album singles, “Transmission”, ...

Joy Division were one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era, but not many people know the real meaning behind their band name - and it's pretty dark. advertisement.

Joy Division never charted in the U.S., while New Order scored a trio of Billboard Top 40 albums – including 1989's Technique and 1993's Republic, both of which went gold.

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it — a true original. A co-founder of both that group and New Order, Peter Hook has been ...

The band celebrates the music of Joy Division on Sept. 10 at the Warfield in San Francisco. Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $25-$37.50, axs.com. Here’s my interview with Hook, who joined ...

Although Joy Division is the older of the two acts, it was actually New Order’s “Substance” that came out first (in 1987) and so Hook was, in a way, moving chronologically when he decided to ...