There's nothing resembling a duff track here (a remarkable feat in today's supposedly post-album environment) but the guts of the matter are a cluster of pieces where the group dig deep and cut loose ...

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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 ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Peter Hook points to a pair of rails buried in the asphalt of a parking lot. We’re outside the O2 Victoria ...

Legendary alternative bands New Order and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline the 2025 Cruel World music festival, promoters Goldenvoice announced yesterday. Held on May 17 at Brookside at The ...

Tony Wilson, the impresario behind the Haçienda nightclub famous for those hazy Madchester years from the late ’80s to early ’90s, was fictionalized in the film 24 Hour Party People. He moved to ...

Legendary bassist Peter Hook was one quarter of Joy Division, and he played in New Order from the band's 1980 beginning until 2007, when he split bitterly with his longtime bandmate Bernard Sumner.