Aquarium Drunkard — If we’ve learned anything from the music of Joy Division and The Smiths, it’s that the good people of Manchester, England, can handle bleak, uncompromising music. They were certainly given a bracing shot of it on this autumn night in 1973, as Nei... more info

Nialler9 — If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second album is their best yet… Since their appearance in 2010, Girls Names’ music has mostly taken its inspirations and palette from the fringes of rock music of... more info

NME - Radar — "There’s lots of great things about Belfast but when it’s bad it’s really bleak. I’m walking right now in the pissing rain and it’s just grey. It feels like it’s grey all the time.” We’re speaking to Girls Names singer Cathal Cully on... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Bassist Peter Hook offers a vivid portrait of his influential English post-punk group and bandmate Ian Curtis. It is a sometimes heartbreaking, always engrossing memoir.Unknown Pleasures more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Photographer Anton Corbijn has over his career shot a number of iconic images: U2 in the California desert for "The Joshua Tree," William Burroughs standing in front of a shooting target, Joy Division posing in a subway tunnel. more info

The Independent — The album cover is dead, Peter Saville famously declared, killed by the iPod and MP3 generation. Fortunately, Saville, the creator of celebrated covers for artists as varied as Joy Division, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel and Pulp, was hotter on his albu... more info

Guardian Music — Meet the Manchester band making rock as visionary as the Verve and as massive as MuseReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Manchester. The lineup: George Agan (vocals, guitar), Will Clutton (bass, keyboards), Steve Mclnerney (guitar) and Nathan How... more info

Prefix — One of the last songs to be composed by the ever influentual Joy Division, the nostalgic track "Ceremony" has been ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/chromatics/ceremony-new-order-cover/72322/ more info

Consequence of Sound — Includes a Joy Division cover by Chromatics and Glass Candy. more info

Guardian Music — Wu Lyf among growing number of UK rock acts unable to bear intense pressure of social media scrutinyLive fast, die young was famously the title of a biography of James Dean. But as a motto, it could apply to a growing number of young British rock ban... more info