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An interview with photographer Kevin Cummins on Joy Division, Morrissey, The Happy Mondays, and more!

Mancunian photographer Kevin Cummins started his career with a amateur shot of David Bowie (wouldn’t be his last), and right out of university took some of the most iconic pictures…

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The Mission will release their 12th album “Another Fall From Grace” | Listen to the single Met-Amor-Phosis

[dropcap]On[/dropcap] Sept. 30, UK Gothic Rockers The Mission will release their 12th album Another Fall From Grace, with the first single from the record, Met-Amor-Phosis, available to listen above. “For…

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Play The Smiths “Meat is Murder”…the video game

[dropcap]Yes[/dropcap], you read that headline correctly, The Smiths have released an online 8-bit game. in collaboration with PETA and This Is Pop entitled “This Beautiful Creature Must Die.” The game is based on…

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New Order to launch their own beer

[dropcap]Sorry[/dropcap] Sunkist, New Order are now endorsing a new beverage. Stray Dog, a beer being brewed in conjunction with the Moorhouse’s brewery in Burnley, was developed following a series of…

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Cosey Fanni Tutti to publish autobiography “Art Sex Music”

[dropcap]Cosey[/dropcap] Fanni Tutti, one of the founding members of experimental Industrial and Electronic groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, has announced her upcoming autobiography, Art Sex Music. The book…

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The Cure in Orange | Watch the full out of print concert film shot in 1986

The Cure have yet to release a DVD of The Cure in Orange, so the 1987 concert film remains sadly out of print—with acquiring a used VHS or Bootleg the only…

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Barneys is selling $225 Joy Division and $175 Cure Shirts

[dropcap]Happy[/dropcap] 40th anniversary of Punk! Let’s all celebrate by lighting a cigar with an £100 note, or perhaps buy an overpriced band t-shirt at Barneys. You can get that Joy…

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Peter Hook to release new book “Substance : Inside New Order”

[dropcap]Following[/dropcap] the release of his 2013 book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division , former Joy Division and New Order Bassist Peter Hook is publishing the followup which focuses on New Order. Named…

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The Damned are celebrating their 40th anniversary with shows in LA & NYC

[dropcap]Punk [/dropcap]Legends The Damned are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with three US shows that naturally happen right around Halloween. The shows are being billed as “A Unique 40th Anniversary…

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds share ‘Skeleton Tree’ / ‘One More Time With Feeling’ Official Trailer

[dropcap]As[/dropcap] previously reported, It has been 3 years since 2013’s Push The Sky Away, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will be releasing their next album SKELETON TREE on September…

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