Go watch “Control” (2007), a film about the life and death of Joy Division. This is the environment in which great bands are formed. They are hungry, underemployed, desperate, and in their brief existence, Joy Division never recorded a song that was less than great. The Clash, The Ro...
(Image credit: Joy Division) Here lies another album it seems absurd was written in the last century, let alone more than 40 years ago. Unknown Pleasures shaped British guitar music in such a way that it is difficult to imagine where we’d be without its release, with such beauty to be...
The B-52’s, Gang of Four, Simple Minds, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and Gary Numan.1979 was the year 2-tone ska became a thing, with The Specials and Madness leading the way. Punk was still churning out new acts though it was starting to decline a...
Story 1: 30-year-old Duoleti Tursunyaz is a happy young man because Re is a farmer-turned-worker. His hometown, Luopu County, is located at the southern end of the Taklamakan Desert, which was once one of the most impoverished counties in Xinjiang. Things changed a few years ago when ...
New wave would become a big thing in the ‘80s, foreshadowed in 1979 by debut efforts from The Cure, The B-52’s, Gang of Four, Simple Minds, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and Gary Numan.1979 was the year 2-tone ska became a thing, with The Specials and Madness leading...
A Frito-Lay executive is said tohave invented Doritosafter tasting toasted tortillas during a family vacation in Southern California in 1964. The first Doritos hit store shelves in 1966. The original version of the chips was plain, but the now-standard nacho cheese flavor was introduced in 1974...
28 at 73 after a brief illness. The New York band's 1977 debut LP, Marquee Moon, is considered a masterpiece. R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, Joy Division’s Stephen Morris and U2’s the Edge are among those who credit it with being a key...
When momentarily embarrassed, it is something in the pharynx that compels either a swallow, a clearing of the throat, or a slight cough; and so on for as many more instances as might be named. Our concern here being with the general view rather than with the details, I will not linger...
New wave would become a big thing in the ‘80s, foreshadowed in 1979 by debut efforts from The Cure, The B-52’s, Gang of Four, Simple Minds, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and Gary Numan.1979 was the year 2-tone ska became a thing, with The Specials and Madness leading...
City Boy Lemon, their latest LP release, is a grower not a show-er, and I’ve come back to it again and again over the past couple weeks with an eager ear to the melodic contour of their songs and the pure joy of dancing around in my underwear while Matt Binder sings “I always ...