The first time you saw someone using a melodica, you might have asked yourself something like, “why is that person eating their keyboard?”. The instrument…
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Joy Division
Few albums are able to conjure images of gloom, darkness, and pain while feeling like a euphoric release. Even fewer are able to do this…
Former Joy Division bassist, Peter Hook, has announced that a live-streamed Ian Curtis tribute event is on the way.
The stream will take place from…
It’s hard to understate the cultural significance of English rock band Joy Division.
You’ve probably seen the Unknown Pleasures album artwork printed on various tees…
Like so many rock bands, The Cure was built on a foundation of schoolboy dreams. Yet, the sole member who has survived through the band’s…
Even though electronic music and synthesisers were becoming more popular throughout the 1980s, there was still a healthy guitar-based strain of alternative-rock music on both…
Delay is a beguiling sonic tool for creating the illusion of an expansive sound. The sound bouncing off an imaginary distant cliff face brings an…
The AMS DMX 15-80 was the world’s first microprocessor-controlled digital delay. It emerged in the late ’70s, preceded by analog tape delays and succeeded ultimately…
Post-punk. A hyphenated word likely dropped on almost every music blog in the last week. The genre’s recent revival has become somewhat of a global…
A series of films celebrating Joy Division‘s 1979 landmark album Unknown Pleasures are being released to mark its 40th anniversary.
Unknown Pleasures: Reimagined is a series of 10…
Joy Divisions seminal debut album Unknown Pleasures is set to receive a special edition release to celebrate the record’s 40th anniversary next month.
Joy Division’s iconic…
The 1970s was a phenomenally important decade that led to the world we have today – from the first video game consoles and tabletop computers,…
With the classic Aussie spring weather taking a turn for the torrential seemingly every weekend, it’s high time we started handing out some viewing recommendations…
