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With their synth-pop noir, Detachments are going to be competing for the title of 2010's best indie-techno miserablists Detachments ... doing the legacy of Joy Division and New Order proud Hometown: London.

Peter Hook thinks Madonna is ''horrible'' and compared her to a ''Black Widow'' spider.

What's on in Sweden: Selam African festival & gospel munificence in Stockholm; Cirque du Soleil and MJ Thriller in Gothenburg; Oumou Sangare in Malmo/Lund. STOCKHOLM Selam African Festival 2009 Selam African Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with one of the biggest happenings in the music scene of African roots.

Team Gallery Soho 83 Grand Street, between Wooster and Greene, 212-279-9219 November 12 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Team is pleased to present a show of new work by Slater Bradley.

Cold Cave, looking all cold and cavey. Listen To This: Cold Cave -- " Love Comes Close " If you happen to be a musician with a penchant for moody post-punk riffs, you probably have a bone to pick with Ian Curtis.

When Phil Oakey departed the music scene he left some big 80s boots to fill. Okay, so I know he's still about, but I'm going to pretend that the last disaster of a tour didn't happen and he left way back when the lop-sided hair cut was still going strong.

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" Electro Plated Thriller Pop " 'Sugar Jesus' is an award winning live electro pop act formed in September 2008.

Harry Treadway Where: Vic Rating: 4 Like many wrecks that line the fast lane's soft shoulder, there's something simultaneously repulsive and strangely alluring about casting an eye into the mangled cockpit of lost soul Ian Curtis, the lead singer of late-'70s Brit band Joy Division.

Bad Lieutenant will be continuing on the back of their sell out Manchester and London shows performing as very special guests on the forthcoming UK leg of the Pet Shop Boys 'Pandemonium' tour in December.

's "Never Cry Another Tear" has some big shoes to fill. Not only does the act take its name from Abel Ferrara's acclaimed 1992 twisted cop flick, it's fronted by Bernard Sumner, the voice of New Order and guitarist/songwriter in Joy Division.

The Cure - Burn >> Posted By scott4261 1 hour, 29 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment Nearly one year after the death of Brandon Lee, his final movie the Crow is released.

Sometimes it is a material thickness. But more often it exists as a lack. Its absence is weightier than its presence.

Featured review by: UG Team , on october 21, 2009 1 of 1 people found this review helpful Sound: From the word go, this album sounds very much like Joy Division and New Order .

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album Doolittle , the Pixies - Black Francis , Kim Deal , Joey Santiago and David Lovering - will kick off the 21-date US leg of their " Doolittle Tour " on Wednesday, November 4 at the Hollywood Palladium.

The ex-New Order frontman talks death, ego clashes and the darkness of Joy Division .

In an exclusive extract from a new book by Peter Hook, the New Order and Joy Division bassist tells how the Manchester club was born, why Madonna played her first UK gig in it, and how everyone who went there still owes him a tenner Getty Images Ex-New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook has written a warts-and-all history of the famous ...

Pete McKee is to auction a picture of Ian Curtis for the Samaritans. An artist will auction off a cartoon portrait of Joy Division star Ian Curtis in a bid to raise funds for charity.

The universe tends toward disarray. Stars explode. Planets collide. Singers in white suits douse themselves in fake blood.

Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook has labelled fellow Mancunian Morrissey a "twat" after admitting there was an intense rivalry between his bands and The Smiths during the '80s. Speaking at a Q&A session on Saturday at Bristol Borders , where he was promoting his first book 'The HaA ienda: How Not To Run A Club' , Hook said he ...