THE TRUTH ABOUT: Joy division - The Untold Story

Radio Free Alice bust out prison gig for debut album

Post-punk exports Radio Free Alice have made a brief return to Australia to play at Pentridge Prison ahead of releasing their debut album, What's In Between.

AAP · Oct 23

7 Miles Out review – Carol Morley’s funny-poignant self-portrait of teenage kicks in Stockport

A daring, rich and funny study of the ordeal of having to invent and reinvent your own teenage sense of self amid confounding changes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17

24 Hour Party People review – daring metatextual paean to the Manchester music scene

Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling 2002 film about Tony Wilson, champion of post-punk bands, couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7

New Order’s Stephen Morris has ‘pretty serious illness’ and doesn’t know if he’ll tour again: ‘Things won’t get better’

Drummer says his health condition prevents him from leaving the country for any lengthy period

The Independent UK · Sep 11

​’Ian Curtis didn’t have a chance’: the Durutti Column on departed friends, Factory Records and fun with Morrissey

As they release their first album in 16 years, the Vini Reilly-fronted band answer your questions on sandpaper record sleeves, having Harry Styles as a fan and inventing a new style of guitar music

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23

How Manchester created Manchesterism: from music and culture to political power

Manchester has always been an English city that tells its story through culture. Its reputation was not built solely through a global crucible of industry, commerce or politics but through music, football, television, art and a tradition of creative self-invention.

The Conversation · Jul 17

Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert step away from New Order

New Order will be without Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert "for the foreseeable future", "due to personal health reasons".

BANG Premier · Jun 30

"He glared out into the audience like he wanted to kill each and every one of us, one at a time." The story behind the gig which inspired the birth of Joy Division

The night that changed Manchester's music scene forever

Louder · Jun 5

“We wanted this record to sound like it was from outer space.” How LA’s freakiest band Jane's Addiction kickstarted a rock revolution with the game-changing Nothing's Shocking

With their 1988 album Nothing's Shocking, Jane’s Addiction ushered in a new kind of rock music

Louder · Jun 3

"Everything health-wise caught up with me at the same time. Whatever could go wrong did go wrong." Phil Collins is feeling a lot better, but won't be performing at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

"They asked me if I would perform. I said, No."

Louder · May 27