Joy Division

New Order as part of Ultra Music Festival 2012 at Bayfront Park March 23

New Order's Four Catchiest, Hook-Laden Songs

​As the world's most comprehensive electronic party extravaganza, Ultra Music Festival is dominated by the sonic phenomenon known as the drop. Simultaneously present in seemingly unrelated genres -- such as the soulful vocal crescendos of house, the interlocking pulses of techno, or the bombastic ... More >>

Disney's Mickey Mouse Joy Division T-Shirt: How I'm Out $300

​Midnight on Saturday, I found myself walking down Main Street U.S.A. after a long day at the Magic Kingdom. I was there to celebrate my sister's birthday and had met up along with former New Times music editor Arielle Castillo, Ocean Drive's Crissy Borges, and their respective significant others. ... More >>

Bad Brains at Revolution Live September 21

​Midnight on Saturday, I found myself walking down Main Street U.S.A. after a long day at the Magic Kingdom. I was there to celebrate my sister's birthday and had met up along with former New Times music editor Arielle Castillo, Ocean Drive's Crissy Borges, and their respective significant others. ... More >>

Villa 221 Bums Everyone Out by Pulling the Plug on Animal Tropical at Their Own Release Party

If you bring it, they will mosh​Animal Tropical and Ice CreamWith Slashpine, People, Shiboleth, and New Theory Villa 221Thursday, June 30 Villa 221 is a rambling Old Florida estate converted into a labyrinthine nightlife compound capable of functioning as: (1) a club via thumping music and d ... More >>

Pop Goes the Brits

If you bring it, they will mosh​Animal Tropical and Ice CreamWith Slashpine, People, Shiboleth, and New Theory Villa 221Thursday, June 30 Villa 221 is a rambling Old Florida estate converted into a labyrinthine nightlife compound capable of functioning as: (1) a club via thumping music and d ... More >>

Ten Raddest Album Covers of the Internet Era: Daft Punk, Cut Copy, Booka Shade, and More

​If you're old enough to remember vinyl LPs, then you know that album design used to be an art unto itself. Who doesn't fondly remember rolling a fatty across the face of iconic sleeves such as the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?  But toda ... More >>

Dino Felipe's My Vomit Is A Crystal Ball Channels Iggy Pop and Joy Division

​Onstage, Dino Felipe is all chaos and mayhem. His live show usually starts off with high energy, which sometimes turns into antagonism, which often spirals into self-directed violence. As a performer he can really polarize the crowd. It's unfortunate that the thing most people take away from the ... More >>

Brit band James at Culture Room

​Onstage, Dino Felipe is all chaos and mayhem. His live show usually starts off with high energy, which sometimes turns into antagonism, which often spirals into self-directed violence. As a performer he can really polarize the crowd. It's unfortunate that the thing most people take away from the ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco Goes From Rap to Rock with New Band Japanese Cartoon, Paying Tribute to Joy Division

The cover art for Japanese Cartoon's In the Jaws of the Lords of Death​You probably know Wasalu Jaco best for all of his hip-hop collaborations. With Lupe Fiasco as his stage name, he's worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Neptunes, and Pharrell Williams, Justice, and Rihanna. But now h ... More >>

Interpol's gig at the Fillmore stirs up Terrors from drummer's past

The cover art for Japanese Cartoon's In the Jaws of the Lords of Death​You probably know Wasalu Jaco best for all of his hip-hop collaborations. With Lupe Fiasco as his stage name, he's worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Neptunes, and Pharrell Williams, Justice, and Rihanna. But now h ... More >>

Concert Review: Control: A Tribute to Ian Curtis at Churchill's, May 18

Photo by Jon NuszAlfred von Blume of Daysleeper feels the Joy Division energy.​Control: A Tribute to Ian Curtis With Armada!, Daysleeper, Ian Michael, Xela Zaid, DJ Dracula's Daughter, and DJ Nayra Churchill's Pub Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Better than: Watching the movie Control on repeat. The ... More >>

Ian Curtis Remembered in Videos; Tribute Show at Churchill's Tonight

​For a particular breed of rabid, morbid fan of Joy Division (and as one myself, I don't think there are any other types of fans of the band), there have been a lot of macabre little anniversaries to celebrate in recent months. Last year, of course, marked the 30-year anniversary of the band's wat ... More >>

A Tribute to Ian Curtis on May 18 at Churchills

​If you're a fan of Bauhaus, U2, The Cure, Interpol, Bloc Party, She Wants Revenge and many others, then you've probably heard of Ian Curtis without even realizing it. The lead singer of the now defunct Joy Division has been a major influence on all of the above mentioned bands with his deep, dron ... More >>

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for May 4-10

Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each ... More >>

Elm Street remake is no dream

Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each ... More >>

Ode to Joy

Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each ... More >>

French group Nouvelle Vague makes punk and New Wave go bossa

Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each ... More >>

Soft Cell Gets Softer

Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each ... More >>

Astari Nite Celebrates Its EP Release This Friday

photo by kara StarzykIf it is true (as surely it must be) that in the world of pop music there is nothing truly new under the sun, then surely a budding pop star has no choice but to steal from the best of everything that's come before. Okay, so stealing from everything might make for a bit of ... More >>

The Happy Mondays

photo by kara StarzykIf it is true (as surely it must be) that in the world of pop music there is nothing truly new under the sun, then surely a budding pop star has no choice but to steal from the best of everything that's come before. Okay, so stealing from everything might make for a bit of ... More >>

Her Turn

photo by kara StarzykIf it is true (as surely it must be) that in the world of pop music there is nothing truly new under the sun, then surely a budding pop star has no choice but to steal from the best of everything that's come before. Okay, so stealing from everything might make for a bit of ... More >>

Concert Review: Stonefox CD Release Party with Surfer Blood and Dead Rabbits, at Propaganda, July 30

photo by Ian WitlenStonefox ruled Propaganda.​To see a full slideshow of photos from the show, click here. Surfer Blood, Dead Rabbits, and StonefoxPropaganda, Lake WorthThursday, July 30, 2009Better Than: Another DJ dance night whereverThe Review:Last night at Propaganda marked the official album ... More >>

Surfer Blood

photo by Ian WitlenStonefox ruled Propaganda.​To see a full slideshow of photos from the show, click here. Surfer Blood, Dead Rabbits, and StonefoxPropaganda, Lake WorthThursday, July 30, 2009Better Than: Another DJ dance night whereverThe Review:Last night at Propaganda marked the official album ... More >>

Q&A With Peter Murphy, Playing Tomorrow Night at Respectable Street!

After a final album together, 2008's Go Away White, Peter Murphy and his former bandmates have finally hammered the last nail in the Bauhaus coffin. But that's actually good news for the group's rabid fans. Its erstwhile frontman is finally comfortable performing these songs on his solo tours, which ... More >>

Miami According to Brooklyn: Listen to Your Elders

To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I want to talk this week about how the younger generation has no respect for the older generation. The younger kids coming up have no respect for the people who have been there, done that sort of thing. I would be a lot better off ... More >>

Bad Santa

Hipsters and ho-ho-hos, get down ’n’ dirty at Sweat and Churchill’s.

Art Basel Week: Pink Reason and Times New Viking, Dec. 7

The last of the Art Basel week shows at the Kill Your Idols space kicks off with a set from Brooklyn-based Pink Reason, currently a trio but really the brainchild of Kevin Failure, the band's frontman. It sounds a little like Joy Division or another post-punk act put through a shredder, churned in a ... More >>

Joy Division

In the Studio with Martin Hannett (Interstate)

Joy Division Lives On Through 3 One G

The tribute band rocked The Vagabond.

Last Night: 3 One G at the Vagabond

The tribute band rocked The Vagabond.

A Joyful Noise

3 One G pays tribute to Joy Division at The Vagabond.

3 One G

3 One G pays tribute to Joy Division at The Vagabond.

Hooked on Peter

New Order's bassist speaks about the band's final live DVD.

Last Night: Switches, the Virgins, Be Your Own Pet, and She Wants Revenge at Revolution

New Order's bassist speaks about the band's final live DVD.

Astari Nite and Rimsky

New Order's bassist speaks about the band's final live DVD.

Last Night: Louis XIV, Hot Hot Heat, and Editors at Culture Room

New Order's bassist speaks about the band's final live DVD.

Live Transmission

A slew of Joy Divison reissues

Music in 'Wristcutters: A Love Story'

A slew of Joy Divison reissues

Various Artists

A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (Rhino)

Marqui Adora

A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (Rhino)

Tiger Baby

Noise Around Me (Souvenir)

Nouvelle Vague

Noise Around Me (Souvenir)

Editors and stellastarr*

Noise Around Me (Souvenir)

Modernage

Receiver (Pirilla Records)

New Order

Waiting for the Sirens' Call Warner Bros.

Vice City Rock

The downtown indie scene is jumping and making stars out of Fashionista and Modernage

International Agents

Interpol looses Antics and takes on the world

Elliott Smith

From a Basement on the Hill Anti

Pink Mountaintops

Pink Mountaintops Jagjaguwar