Here Comes The Flood — Dutch DJ Kypski has started his own label Partyscratch Music. His frst release is an EP bySpag Heddy, nom-de-plume of Mischa Reining, who has been creating beats since 2006. De Drop contains six songs, well two actually, since the title track is of... more info

Altsounds — Glacial, barren and difficult, OCTAVIUS' Laws arrives in stark contrast to synth pop-derived efforts of recent fashion. Informed specifically by Bowie's Low, New Order's Movement and Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension, Laws is OCTAVIUS in a daringly... more info

Popdose — OMD's dark electronic sounds were right in step with New Order and Depeche Mode, and yet "Electricity" couldn't find an audience on either side of the pond over three releases more info

KEXP Seattle — Last week, New Order announced two charity benefit shows for band friend Michael Schamberg, who produced a number of the band’s early videos. The band also noted the absence of their long-suffering bassist Peter Hook, an exclusion that Hook has res... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by a trip to the Joshua Tree, the new conceptual double album by M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, is likely to polarise fans'I am very happy," Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, reassures me twice during our interview, lest the recurring themes of solitud... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG 1/4 of Joy Division (aka Peter Hook) performing as Joy Division in Brest, 9th March 2011 "I first heard about this on Monday and it has taken me completely by surprise! Everyone knows that NEW ORDER without PETER... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Peter Hook has blasted his former New Order bandmates for reuniting without him insisting he knew nothing about the planned benefit shows Earlier this week beg05Sep11 it was announced Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris will be joined by keyboar... more info

Guardian Music — We were liveblogging, red carpeting and, er, red wining at the Mercurys as Polly Jean walked away victorious. As for you? You were mostly slagging off the Beatles ...All the chatter from this year's Mercury prizeRebecca Nicholson gives Mercury prize ... more info

NME — 'New Order without Peter Hook is like Sooty without Sweep' says bass player more info

Guardian Music — Producer and musician Bryan Charles Hollon has enlisted Empire of the Sun's Luke Steele and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Josh Klinghoffer on this slice of mutant popBoom Bip, aka Bryan Charles Hollon, is an American producer and musician perhaps best known... more info