• New Order to Release Album This Fall

    Back in September, synthpop legends New Order announced that they had signed to Mute Records, and in a new interview with "Rolling Stone," the band has revealed that its first album for the label can be expected for fall 2015. This new album, which has yet to be given a title, will be New Order's first with their new five-piece lineup, which includes Bad Lieutenant's Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman. The album also sees the return of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who left the band following their 2001 album "Get Ready."

  • 8 Artists Who Hated The Production On Their Own Albums

    Making albums is almost always a collaborative process between the artist and their producer, which means that egos often clash and ideas are often compromised. For these eight artists, however, these compromises apparently didn't work out in their favor. Here are eight artists who hated the production on their albums.

  • Joy Division & New Order's Bernard Sumner To Release Autobiography In September

    Joy Division and New Order guitarist Bernard Sumner will be releasing an autobiography on September 25, Pitchfork reports. The book is titled Chapter and Verse (New Order, Joy Division, And Me) and is being published by Bantam Press. As the title indicates, the book will likely be a look back on Sumner's time with influential post-punk band Joy Division and the equally influential synth-pop band New Order, formed after the tragic suicide of Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis in 1980. Sumner has also been a member of the bands Electronic, with Johnny Marr of the Smiths, and Bad Lieutenant, with his New Order bandmate Phil Cunningham.

  • Joy Division Fan? Sound Engineer Puts Rumored Original "Unknown Pleasures" Master Tape Up For Sale

    If you keep to the new world methods of listening to music, mp3s and CDs and whatnot, you might not realize what amounts some are willing to pay for out-of-print vinyl records, cassette tapes and 8-tracks. It's a lot. If the recordings are by a cult band like Joy Division, that only amplifies how much people are willing to pay just to own what's become a form of memorabilia. Considering all these facts, Julia Adamson, a sound engineer and head of Invisible Girl Records, may have a lot of money on her hands.
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