L.A. Times - Entertainment — Health, “Blue Monday” (Loma Vista). The Los Angeles quartet long ago earned the cred to tackle this dance floor classic by New Order, which was commissioned for the new Charlize Theron thriller “Atomic Blonde.” Originally writ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Health, “Blue Monday” (Loma Vista). The Los Angeles quartet long ago earned the cred to tackle this dance floor classic by New Order, which was commissioned for the new Charlize Theron thriller “Atomic Blonde.” Originally writ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The year of Live Aid, of course, and with it and We Are The World came the birth of the superstar, so much so that by September Michael Jackson could outbid Paul McCartney for the Beatles' publishing. Wham! went to China, Brothers In Arms popular... more info

XLR8R — Matt Edwards is soon set to drop his eagerly anticipated debut Radio Slave album, titled Feel The Same. Easily his most recognizable nom de plume, Radio Slave was initially Matt’s pseudonym for remixes, with early reinterpretations of Kylie Mi... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Does anyone read these spiels? Maybe we should just save them for the book version that'll never happen. Here's forty top songs (39 of which are on Spotify) from the magnificent pop year of 1982, and no, Dollar's inclusion is not a mistak... more info

Core News — “Jarvis broadcasts live from the Manchester International Festival. He’ll be talking to Factory Records graphic design legend Peter Saville about the True Faith exhibition, part of MIF 2017 which explores the visual identity of New Order and Joy ... more info

Dlisted — When In Rome! “This is my favorite Pet Shop Boys song! Or is it my favorite Depeche Mode Song? My favorite New Order song?” is what an uneducated me probably said many times in the late 1980s every time The Promise came on the radio. But none of... more info

Stereogum — Ahead of Radiohead's headlining performance at the UK's Glastonbury festival next week, Thom Yorke sat down with Matt Everitt to talk musical firsts on BBC 6 Music 6's The First Time . As Pitchfork reports, in addition to formative experience watchi... more info

KEXP Seattle — They may not have made the majors like The Replacements and Hüsker Dü did, but Minneapolis-based band Arcwelder were more than a perennial local favorite, cracking John Peel’s Festive Fifth countdown in 1992 and getting crowned NME‘s “Pun... more info

Stereogum — Finn Wolfhard, the teenage actor who plays Mike Wheeler in Netflix's unstoppable '80s nostalgia delivery system Stranger Things, has developed a busy side hustle as a rock 'n' roller. He's covered Nirvana in a home video and New Order at a big benefi... more info