411 Mania — From Kiss and the Cure to Joy Division, Quincy Jones, Deep Purple and more, 411's Jeremy Thomas counts down his list of the top 8 acts that should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! more info

Guardian Music — Its original intention was to help promote non-western musicians. But now it is just putting them in a ghettoLife's a mashup these days, isn't it? Not just online but in the real world too. From arts to science, from finance to food, from work to pla... more info

411 Mania — From Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Metallica's "One" to Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 1980s songs of all-time! more info

Guardian Music — (Sub Pop)Spoek Mathambo (or Nthato Mokgata as he's known to his family) can be a prickly character: bridling over a feature in these pages last year in which he perceived himself portrayed as a figurehead for kwaito, for instance – whereas as any f... more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Peter Hook has blasted reports an unreleased track by his former band Joy Division has been unearthed branding the song a hoax Earlier this week beg27Feb12 rumours circulated online that a previously unheard tune by the cult band has b... more info

Guardian Music — Here's one for the Leveson inquiry: the Salford bard's thoughts on the Daily Express For a while in the late 1970s John Cooper Clarke was a fixture on the new wave scene, impressively convincing punk rock crowds that what they really wanted to hear w... more info

Guardian Music — Before Simple Minds went stadium rock, they made 'serious, dark music' that influenced the Manics and Primal Scream. Now they're returning to their rootsA couple of years ago a young, anonymous musician approached Jim Kerr in a Glasgow rehearsal stud... more info

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ContactMusic — Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has uncovered 1 million pounds worth of jewellery a gun and perhaps most interestingly for music fans - some original Joy Division master tapes in the basement of his new restaurant The haul was discovered at Jamies new re... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Last week the web was wriggling with outrage over The Disney Store Corporation offering for sale a Mickey Mouse™ T-shirt in the graphic style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover -- not that the iconic white-on-black waveform image (... more info