Guardian Music — 4 June 1976: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicGoogle the words "Sex Pistols Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976", or simply "4 June 1976", and you can use the resultant 22,600,000 pieces of information to piece togethe... more info

Guardian Music — 18 May 1980: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIan was very ill with epilepsy when we were recording the Closer album. He was having a lot of blackouts. There was one horrible occasion where he was missing for... more info

Guardian Music — March 1983: Number 27 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicBlue Monday had inauspicious beginnings: depending on which of New Order's myth-puncturing stories you believe, it was written either to test out a new drum machine... more info

Guardian Music — 25-27 August 1989: Number 33 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith new promoters Mean Fiddler keen to erase memories of everyone from Meat Loaf to Bonnie Tyler getting bottled the year before, in 1989 the Reading festiv... more info

Guardian Music — Jeanie Finlay's little documentary about a record shop in Teesside wins big support in the music industry, while the Hoff prepares for a soakingParfitt gentle knightDocumentaries are flying high at the box office. Asif Kapadia's Senna achieved a very... more info

Guardian Music — This shy Surrey lad and his two mates make a deliciously dolorous sound, like Sade remixed by the xxHometown: London.The lineup: Lewis Rainsbury, Alex Bailey and Matt Law.The background: Yesterday's new band were relentlessly upbeat. Today's act are ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bernard Sumner talks to BBC News about the genesis of his band New Order. The Book Bench interviews Jeffrey Eugenides about his short story "Asleep in the Lord," taken from his forthcoming novel The Marriage Plot and part of the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Series charting the musical and human dramas behind some of the best-known rock and pop groups in history. This programme looks at some of the best bands to come out of Manchester over the past 20 years. The stories of Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New ... more info

ContactMusic — British rockers New Order held a seance to contact the spirit of their late bandmate Ian Curtis in the hope he could tell them where to locate their stolen equipment after a theft. The World in Motion hitmakers first found fame as Joy Division in the... more info

Guardian Music — Sleeve designer Peter Saville talks us through his favourite designs for Joy Division and New OrderGareth Grundy more info