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 ...

“With the making of [Joy Division’s sophomore album] Closer, Ian’s illness was degenerative, and it was getting worse,” the band’s bassist, Peter Hook, tells Yahoo Entertainment.

More than three decades have passed since Joy Division emerged from the cultural rubble of post-industrial Manchester, England to rechannel punk rock’s sound and fury into something more sublime ...

The Joy Division bassist instead offers a story about meeting the Bauhaus frontman when he was working as a bouncer at the Hacienda, the famous nightclub in Manchester owned by the same people who ...

Closer, which Joy Division recorded in the months immediately preceding Curtis’s suicide that May, is a long, dark plunge into a wintry psychosphere. “Heart and soul, ” Curtis observes on ...

Last Friday's performance at The Vagabond by 3 One G, the Winter Haven-based Joy Division tribute band, was jammed to the rafters. Surprisingly high-energy and weirdly thrilling, it also raised a ...

“Had Joy Division continued, we would have used a lot more electronic music – but probably in a lot more of a, dare I say it, Radiohead direction rather than straight-ahead dance.

When Joy Division released their debut album Unknown Pleasures in 1979, their sound was dubbed "grey overcoat music" by the British press. But even after ...

Joy Division TORONTO -- Arriving at the best possible moment, this doc about groundbreaking postpunk band Joy Division is playing festivals alongside "Control," music-video master Anton Corbijn's ...