Guardian Music — 7 March 1983: Number 12 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music"How does it feel, to treat me like you do?" Bernard Sumner's deadpan vocal introduced what was to become the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time. Did it really s... more info

Guardian Music — 1996: Number 30 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicBeing live, collective and usually drug-enhanced, the "rave" experience has never been easy to replicate on film. But wherever there's a ramshackle youth movement, there'... more info

Guardian Music — February 2002: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicFor a while it felt like you were getting short-changed if you only heard one song at a time. The long-running compilation series As Heard On Radio Soulwax, by B... more info

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