If there were an award for the album cover that's been on the most T-shirts and hoodies, it would without a doubt go to Joy Division's 1979 masterpiece, Unknown Pleasures. Now, the album has received ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it's of course the music on an album that decides whether or not that particular collection of songs will ever reach ...

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 ...

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album has the most iconic cover artwork of all time, according to a poll at online music store MusicMagpie.co.uk. Readers chose the artwork above other acts including ...

People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

It’s not exactly possible to have a thorough conversation about post-punk without talking about Joy Division. Despite being so short-lived as a band and coming to an end when frontman Ian Curtis ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

In what may be an unprecedented set of concerts, Peter Hook and The Light performed six New Order and Joy Division albums in their entirety, during four concerts across Southern California, on the ...

Joy Division’s influence far outweighs its commercial success as the band’s only two studio albums, Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980), have influenced everyone from U2 to The Cure. Much of ...