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 b ...

The legendary bassist of Joy Division and New Order revisits his life’s work in Peter Hook & The Light, who are touring the ...

The two bands from Manchester, U.K., laid the foundation for the massively influential body of music we call post-punk, an ...

New Order’s founding bassist is reminiscing on a honeymoon for this tour with his current band, The Light. The 69-year-old wraps a short run ...

Dead Souls are the only words written on Peter Hook’s page. The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist is trying to write a setlist when it’s time for his interview with The Yorkshire ...

But it’s impossible not to mention New Order in the same breath as its previous ensemble in Joy Division. The story is all too familiar, with the band springing up after a Sex Pistols gig in ...

Another chimed in with: "Took me forever to realise that Joy Division/New Order were the same band, less the lead singer. Totally different sounds." A third also commented: "A lot of New Wave acts ...

Manchester, England, has had an enormous impact on popular music, and Paste recently went in search of that legacy in the ...

Titled ‘Interzone’, former Joy Division/New Order bassist Peter Hook leads his band The Light, in headlining a varied combination of his New Wave peers at the venue’s Grand Hall. The evening ...

“We were getting very good at this,” Peter Hook writes in his 2017 memoir Substance, referring to New Order’s ability ... the dour shadow of Joy Division and frontman Ian Curtis’ suicide ...

Live music highlights in New Orleans for the first full week of June include an Italian opera/pop star and a genre-blending ...