Hollywood Rag (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
(Wenn) Via Telegraph: Daul Kim, a South Korean supermodel who starred in a string of high-profile fashion campaigns, has been found dead at her luxury apartment in Paris. Her death was discovered after she left a series of messages on a website saying she was "lonely" and "depressed". Kim, 20, was a regular on catwalks in New York, Milan and Paris was found hanged in her city center...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
OK--students in my cultural studies course had a bit of a crisis because half of their presentation group dropped out. They are doing a presentation on the Goth subculture and the two members that dropped out were covering the music. So I offered to help out with an introduction to the roots of the Goth sound (as a non-expert)... here is what I came up with, anyone want to suggest additions? 1970s:...
Smitten by Britain (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
When I first heard The Editors, I thought surely Ian Curtis had returned to the living. Singer Tom Smith's voice is eerily reminiscent of the late Joy Division singer and the band's sound is quite unique to anything you hear today, which of course, means I love it! Their latest CD is called In This Light and On This Evening and it's first single is "Papillon". The Stereophonics have released...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Carey Mulligan John Hurt Helen Mirren Pete Postlethwaite and Sam Riley as 'Pinkie' look at that cast. the name of the film they are all making together is 'brighton rock.' the popular and prolific writer graham greene wrote the novel 'brighton rock' in 1938. it is my personal favorite of his many books i have read. in 1947 it was first filmed and that version is really good though very hard to come...
Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
“Ceremony” is one of the final two Joy Division songs front man Ian Curtis had a hand in writing. It was never recorded in a studio by the band (though New Order, the band comprised of ex-Joy Division members, would go on to record it in the studio as a single not too long after). [...]
THE VINYL VILLAIN (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There are some things which really dont seem as if they were released 30 years ago. The 7" single given the catalogue number FAC 13 first hit the shops in October 1979. I'm guessing that more people heard the song for the first time over the past 5 years than did over the previous 25 years such has been the resurgent interest in Joy Division and in particular the life and death of Ian Curtis ....
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
...is (deep breath) still my favourite version of the song. Not only do I have the same confession as Liz (though why we feel the need to confess, I'm still working on); that Paul Young's version was the first I heard but also that when I heard the Joy Division version a few years later I thought it was a ropey Paul Young cover - and in fact, that's how I still see things now. When No Parlez came out...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Last night saw Oregon based mistress of drone folk Liz Harris aka Grouper hush a teeming Luminaire crowd in Kilburn. Presented by the London based music promoter Upset The Rhythm , Grouper was accompanied by Silk Flowers; an otherworldly darkwave synth-pop Brooklyn trio and self billed athletic rhythm / action unit Thank You hailing from Baltimore. Silk Flowers kicked things off with a few from their...
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
COLD CAVE Love Comes Close (Matador Edition) Matador ELECTRO / SYNTHPOP LP We're still buzzed-up on Cold Cave's utterly f*cked-up and insanely brilliant compilation of early material 'Cremations' that came out a few weeks back, so you can only imagine how hyped we are over their debut LP proper, 'Love Comes Close'. While that first comp was engrossing from start to finish, we much preferred those tracks...
BabygirlBoutique.Com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
From the poverty and angst of late-seventies Manchester, England came Joy Division, new wave pioneers who hit the scene and, in just a few years, changed the history of British music forever. Front man Ian Curtis, known for his sad monotone, strange dancing, and anti-stage presence, suffered from epileptic seizures that interfered with his life and eventually his live performances. He grew ill and...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
How to tell the story of the young Lennon? First-time director Sam Taylor-Wood, rising star Aaron Johnson and Yoko Ono talk exclusively about new film Nowhere Boy Here in the New Clubmoor Hall in Norris Green, Liverpool, they're selling Bateman's Light Dinner Ale at 6d a bottle. The reek of Nelson's Tipped and Senior Service cigarettes fills the air. Moody boys in slim suits and slick DAs mooch about...
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am going through a British pop star memoir thing at the moment, and I couldn't resist Joy Division/New Order's bass player Peter Hook's book on his (well co-owned by all of New Order) The Hacienda. It's interesting that he didn't write a proper memoir of life with Ian Curtis, etc. But perhaps he feels that there is already...
freemovietag - free online movies (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Plot: A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23. Rapidshare:Part- 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
End of the 70, early 80s, this sampling is all male performers but gives a passing glimpse at the 70s music scene. You've got your reggae, your guitar heroes Southern rock style, your punk, your Manchester post-punk, your Old School heavy metal and your storyteller. And the beat goes on. The thing about being a kid and teenager in the Research Triangle, North Carolina, in the 70s, was this: you heard...
A New Band A Day! (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Some new bands would just love to be as glum and dark as Joy Division. Witness the current crop of frontmen who have suddenly developed hollow eyed stares and Ian Curtis arm twitches - the Indie equivalent of Dr. Strangelove's alien hand. The truth is that most bands just can't manage it, because if there's one thing you can't fake, it's existentialist miserablism. Most bands just want to have fun...
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