With a recorded legacy once founded almost exclusively on two studio albums, the last couple of years has seen the basis of Joy Division's stature as one of rock and roll's greatest bands shift to a ...

A massive new box set is by far the most comprehensive collection to date of Ian Curtis and the band’s concert recordings ...

Curtis killed himself just eight months after this taping. At the time the group were on the verge of heading to America for their first stateside tour. “On Sunday morning I was turning my trousers up ...

The career of Joy Division - the greatest band of the post-punk era of the late 1970s and early ‘80s - was tragically short, ended by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of just 23: Not ...

Sixteen days later, their singer was gone and Joy Division ceased to exist. Photo by Chris Mills on (Photo by Chris Mills on ) The shows documented cover the full run of the band's final active years ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Britain was awash in sharply defined youth cultures that ran the gamut from hardcore punks to casuals, mods, teds, skinheads and the rest. Some were frankly ...

In 1979, for even the most avid NME reader living outside Britain’s big cities, it wasn’t easy to get to see new bands. Sure, you could hear them on John Peel, but that didn’t tell you anything about ...

In the seemingly infinite discussion of influence, Joy Division's place in the halls of music's most revered is just as sure as the band's equally esteemed mythos. Generations of fans old enough to ...