Vintage Video: Radiohead covers The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order
With Radiohead and Thom Yorke each releasing new songs recently — and Yorke debuting his new solo band, featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea […]
Tag: New Order
Peter Hook’s Freebass finishes first album, preps debut EP ‘Two Worlds Collide’
Former New Order bassist Peter Hook’s long-gestating Freebass project — which also features the four-stringed talents of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke and Gary “Mani” Mounfield […]
Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant to open for the Pixies during New York ‘Doolittle’ concerts
Bad Lieutenant, Bernard Sumner’s brand-new New Order spinoff, has announced its first-ever live dates this fall in the UK and France, as well as plans […]
Rhino Records gutted by layoffs; future of The Cure’s reissue series in doubt?
Tweet Revered catalog label Rhino Records — which put out the Left of the Dial box set and countless classic college-rock reissues by the likes […]
Quick Spins: Big Audio Dynamite, Bad Lieutenant, The Cult, Sonic Youth
The expanded 2CD reissue of This is Big Audio Dynamite — the 1985 debut from Mick Jones’ post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, which featured breakout […]
New releases: The Smiths vinyl reissues, new Fall live CD, New Order re-reissues
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: The Smiths RELEASES: The Smiths, Meat is […]
New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant posts debut single ‘Sink or Swim’ on MySpace
Bernard Sumner’s New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant this week posted its first single, “Sink or Swim,” on the band’s MySpace page in advance of its […]
New Order’s botched CD reissues finally to be re-reissued by Rhino Records in August
Rhino Records has set an Aug. 25 release date for its 2CD re-reissues of New Order’s first five albums following last year’s release of mislabeled, […]
New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant announces debut album ‘Never Cry Another Tear’
Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant — the new band featuring a Peter Hook-less New Order — this week announced it will release its debut album, Never […]
Rhino releases its Factory Records box set, ‘Communications 1978-92,’ via iTunes
Rhino Records today released a digital version of its four-disc Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 box set via iTunes, collecting 63 tracks — spanning Joy Division […]
New Order members recruit Blur’s Alex James for Bad Lieutenant project
With Peter Hook having acrimoniously split from New Order, the rest of the legendary synthrock act has enlisted Blur bassist Alex James for a new […]
Sonic Youth, New Order, The Smiths issuing exclusive vinyl for Record Store Day
The second-annual Record Store Day is less than two weeks out, and the list of exclusive releases being prepped for the April 18 support-your-local-shop shindig […]
Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses spotlighted in new book on Manchester scene
Perhaps best known for his bio “The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop,” Brit rock scribe/musician John Robb has set his sights on […]
