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Joy Division casts a wide shadow.(The Orange County Register)
And so the staggering influence of Joy Division is once again resurrected. As if the ugly-beautiful twinkle of the band's dark star had ever really ceased blinking.
It has cast shadows into all sorts of corners lately. In film, of course: "24 Hour Party People," one of the most celebrated art-house flicks of the year, documenting the first-damp-then-declamatory Manchester music scene, for which Joy Division was the creative linchpin.
Out of its ashes _ after the seemingly inevitable suicide of troubled, brilliant, epileptic singer Ian Curtis _ sprang New Order, that greatest of electro-rock groups, out of which leapt, dazed and confused, the "Madchester" rebirth, and the reckless insanity of the hilariously overvalued Happy Mondays.
That much is history worth studying. Now, however, traces of JD are creeping into all manner of sounds.
Some are overt, as is the case with the ...
- Joy Division casts a wide shadow.
- Newspaper article from: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 27, 2002 700+ words
...staggering influence of Joy Division is once again resurrected...scene, for which Joy Division was the creative...Bright Lights" from New York band Interpol...Liars, another New York band, which leans...what is it about Joy Division that keeps so many...
- JOY DIVISION BROUGHT SOME SAD MESSAGES
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff August 21, 1988 700+ words
...It was five years ago, in New York, and Bernard Sumner, guitarist...quietly about his former band, Joy Division. That band, which existed...punk and post-punk era. Joy Division, hailing from Manchester...Said Sumner: "To me, Joy Division songs are very sad, very...
- Joy division wannabes are drawn to trendy fame-grabbing.
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) April 13, 2006 700+ words
...label Interscope. But the black-clad New York boys better hurry up and put out a new...all these bands rip off goth legends Joy Division, a band that released a pair of albums...them. But as long as you can still buy Joy Division -- or even Interpol -- albums, there...
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- Magazine article from: WWD D'Souza, Nandini Mistry, Meenal Gilbert, Daniela December 8, 2003 700+ words
GOOD CHARLOTTE NEW YORK -- Charlotte Martin wears...along with The Cure, Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine...Shop, Look and Listen NEW YORK -- All physical evidence...to young designers in New York. And although the lanky...
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- Magazine article from: WWD September 9, 2005 700+ words
...common inspirations: a love of the band Joy Division and the classic, but undone style of...board a plane headed for JFK to make her New York debut, she seems to be brimming with...500, currently sells at Barneys in New York and Beverly Hills, select Neiman Marcus...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 18, 2009 700+ words
NEW YORK and AMSTERDAM, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire...as spoken word poetry, the lyrics of Joy Division's song 'Candidate'. G-Star chose...an intimate after show party at famed New York restaurant and club Butter. About G...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) December 12, 2004 700+ words
...s other sides to Interpol. You've been compared with Joy Division, does this record try to shake this tag off? We didn't...Christmas? I'm looking forward to enjoying some time in New York. We've been away for quite a while. How did it feel to...
- From agony of Joy Division springs a pop success story
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Bill Wyman June 25, 1989 700+ words
...original band was the Manchester gloom-rockers Joy Division, and Joy Division's successor is New Order, currently approaching...eagerly awaited summer concert tour. To make Joy Division's vindication complete, Warner Bros. Records...
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