Guardian Music — Yesterday saw more debuts from the Manchester international festival, including Punchdrunk's Doctor Who show and an opera by Damon AlbarnThe Manchester international festival is hitting its stride now, with a tranche of new work unveiled yesterday. P... more info

The Vinyl Villain — 12 x 12 is the title of a series of  12-inch singles released by New Order  in February 2006 through a label called New State Recordings. The discs contain a mixture of both new and previously released remixes of   songs.I didn't even try to seek... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley,. Listen to Com Truise - Galactic Melt, released on June 14th Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New Y... more info

Guardian Music — May 1982: Number 10 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicOn 27 January 1984, music show The Tube visited the Haçienda. As part of the evening, Madonna was filmed lip-syncing Holiday with a couple of dancers. The clip still... more info

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