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We already know you’re having a party for Halloween. We know you’ve covered your home in spider webs, candles, blacklight-reactant posters and ghouley, ghosty things from Rite Aid. Before you do anything else brilliant, we’re here to make extra sure you’re prepared to give your guests the creep fest they’re looking for ... read more |
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A bonus disc will also accompany the release, hitting your DVD player with previously unseen archival footage, plus a nice length of vintage ‘80s footage from various live shows. Did you say you wanted to see unsavory hairdos and wardrobe? That’s what I thought. The whole thing is due to drop June 2, so be ready with your pastel jive-tunes credit card ... read more |
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The annals of Rock N Roll lore are filled with hundreds of talented and tortured souls. Some of them fought through the pain, some of them took the easy way out. I’m sick and fucking tired of lauding the quitters. There’s nothing poetic about dying in some godforsaken shack after systematically distancing yourself from everyone who cares ... read more |
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Rhino Records will release a greatest hits package for Joy Division. The problem, you ask? The British will get a two CD set featuring rarities. The Americans? Not so much. Apparently, Uncle Sam doesn’t give a shit about anything but the singles ... read more |
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I’m hearing a song I recognize, no, a song I love. This is supposed to be Joy Division’s “Shadowplay,” but it is all wrong – the guitar is jangly and happy, the drums sound like fucking She Wants Revenge, the singing is nice, perfectly in key and so, so tepid. It is evidently some hipster-pop candy band inflicting their perverted interpretation of a classically awesome song on me, and I am not happy ... read more |
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You’ve probably never heard of Ian Curtis, and that is a damn shame. The eccentric Englishman was the founder and lead singer of Joy Division (that band that wrote “Love Will Tear Us Apart”), and his work had a direct and dramatic effect on Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, U2, and even The Cure. With his marriage crumbling and epileptic seizures disrupting his work, Ian Curtis hung himself, while Iggy Pop’s The Idiot was screaming its way on loop ... read more |
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