“What the f— is going on?” Bernard Sumner says jokingly. After crashing on both Zoom and WhatsApp, the founding member of New Order decided to give FaceTime a shot. He materializes, sitting on a couch ...
New Order has announced a new career-spanning compilation titled The Best & the Rest of New Order. The record is due July 17 ...
Their shared history was formed in a crucible of loss, as singer Ian Curtis' suicide left his former Joy Division bandmates to carry on with New Order. At first, they were more directly influenced by ...
Bernard Sumner of New Order, performing True Faith at The Roxy TV Show, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 7/21/87. New Order fills five spaces—owning exactly 5%—on a U.K. chart as a number of their fan-favorite ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Bernard Sumner of New Order, performing True Faith at The Roxy TV ...
New Order‘s essential 1987 12″ singles collection Substance is getting a deluxe CD box set edition as well as its first-ever vinyl reissue (preorder). There’s a cassette edition as well and they’re ...
“We were getting very good at this,” Peter Hook writes in his 2017 memoir Substance, referring to New Order’s ability to fuse rock and dance into something entirely new. Specifically, he’s talking ...
Drummer Stephen Morris has shared his memories of the “chaos” surrounding New Order’s 1983 performance on Top of the Pops. The band’s biggest hit, “Blue Monday,” had only been out for a couple of ...
Hook formed New Order in 1980 with Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris after the death of Ian Curtis, but left in 2007 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...