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 ...

The track was a much-needed boost for the Manchester band — and no cover version has since matched its mix of melancholy and ...

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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 ...

Drummer Stephen Morris has shared his memories of the “chaos” surrounding New Order’s 1983 performance on Top of the Pops. The band’s biggest hit, “Blue Monday,” had only been out for a couple of ...

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 ...

David Guetta is reportedly eager to secure a collaboration with New Order bassist Peter Hook. The producer, who releases Estelle collaboration 'One Love' on November 23, is said to want to use their ...

Hook formed New Order in 1980 with Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris after the death of Ian Curtis, but left in 2007 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...