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Austin-based Hidden Ritual’s second album Always is receiving some great attention from those who respect well executed takes on sounds from music’s past. Still Single describes the band’s sound on this album by piecing…

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A Museum for Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Liz Wood
May 29, 2015

Once the Joy Division frontman’s former home went up for sale earlier this year, fans began rallying to purchase the building and turn it into a museum. The campaign fell hugely…

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Known Pleasures

Roxie Pell
November 25, 2014

In the wake of So This Is Permanence, a recently released archive of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’s notebooks, Jillian Mapes reflects on why artists’ scribblings mean so much to…

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SONGS OF OUR LIVES: JOY DIVISION’S “LOVE WILL TEAR US APART”

Joshua Harmon
February 1, 2013

She drew cartoon sketches of herself. I sent more mix-tapes. Within a few months, in the middle of a five- or six-page letter, she wrote that she loved me.

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SONGS OF OUR LIVES: JOY DIVISION’S “LOVE WILL TEAR US APART”

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