New Order (Band)

Killing Joke Starts a Frenzy at the Fillmore, 5/3/13

Killing Joke Friday, May 3, 2013 The Fillmore Better than: Seeing New Order, the Cure, or any other British post-punk contemporaries of Killing Joke still in operation. In terms of sheer breadth of influence, few bands from the post-punk era can approach the reach of Killing Joke. The brooding, a ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The Top 21 Bay Area Metal Albums of All Time, #10-1

Our countdown of the best Bay Area metal albums continues today with this installment: the 10 best ever. And guess which band comes up a lot on this one? See also * The Top 21 Bay Area Metal Albums of All Time, #21-11 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influence ... More >>

Treasure Island 2012: The xx, M83, and Public Enemy Compete With Gorgeous Views and Weather

Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14, 2012 Treasure Island, San Francisco Better than: Getting an October sunburn anywhere else this weekend. It was around sunset on Sunday evening when Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino sang what everyone at Treasure Island Music Festiva ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Lost in the Night: Felix Da Housecat Schools the Club Kids at Blow Up

Blow Up presents Felix Da Housecat DNA Lounge Friday, March 9, 2012 Better than: Macaulay Culkin's acting in Party Monster. In a city with a rapidly expanding nightlife scene, it's sometimes easy to forget that the future of the industry lies in those clubs and events that cater to a younger audie ... More >>

Weekend Parties: 222 Hyde Reopens, DJ Hell at Public Works, Martin Buttrich at Mighty, and Haçeteria at Deco

We hope you had a refreshing time working all week, because this weekend's going to be hectic. It almost doesn't seem fair, does it? Just when you thought you had time to relax, the city's summerish winter nights begin calling you with their siren-like promises of good times, good tunes, and other g ... More >>

Haceteria: Show Preview

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Saturday: Peter Hook and the Light Tackle Joy Division's Closer

Peter Hook and the Light at Mezzanine on Saturday​ Peter Hook and The Light performing Closer September 17, 2011 Mezzanine Better than: Sitting at home listening to old records by yourself "That was fucking intense" Peter Hook said, right at the beginning of the encore. He wasn't kidding. C ... More >>

While New Order Members Bicker, Peter Hook Comes to Play Joy Division at Mezzanine

Peter Hook at the Music Box in L.A. on Sept. 14. Photo by Timothy Morris.​ Looks like Joy Division and New Order fans now have something of a dilemma on their hands. The story goes all the way back to the beginning, really -- band members Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner have always had some iss ... More >>

R.I.P. Darryl Pandy, Singer Who Helped House Music Hit the Mainstream

Darryl Pandy​Singer and Chicago house pioneer Darryl Pandy, whose incredible voice helped the burgeoning genre cross over into mainstream success, died today, according to news reports. Pandy had been seriously ill for months, leading to several benefit shows for him, according to 5 Chicago, a ... More >>

Bright Eyes Recruits Rich Liberals for Revolution at the Fox Theater

Bright Eyes at the Fox Theater last night. Pics by Ian, more after the jump.​Bright EyesApril 12, 2011@ The Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Whatever shit Mike Huckabee listens to.If Bob Dylan sang the universal in such exquisite poetry that it became personal, Conor Oberst shouts the pe ... More >>

Joy Division's Peter Hook Forces S.F.'s Hacienda Club Night to Change Name

The original Hacienda in Manchester: No longer to be confused with a certain S.F. club night.​Sorry in advance to all of you who thought a former member of Joy Division and New Order would be, like, cool. But forcing a relatively small club night in San Francisco to change its name because it happ ... More >>

The Limousines Pack Popscene to Celebrate Their New Record Deal

The Limousines at Rickshaw Stop last night.​The Limousines February 4, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Watching sweaty wannabes dance on the speakers. Popscene's usual underage crowd got aggressive battling to the front of the crowd last night, snagging spots to block others' view of the Limou ... More >>

Brixton Buck, a Citrus Rocker by the Brixton

Tamara Palmer​Inspired by the Brixton Academy (now named O2 Academy Brixton), a famous British venue that's been home to live recordings by the likes of Faith No More, New Order, Gregory Isaacs, Judas Priest, and many others, the Brixton opened this week in the very un-rockin' neighborhood kno ... More >>

Get High on Motor City: Here's Detroit Rock 'N' Roll and the Fat Buds To Go with It

​Hear this while high: Part 2 of Julian Cope's excessive and entirely essential Detroit rock sampler. (Click for free download.) Behind the buzz: This second massive installment of vintage Motor City psychosis provides the Yang-like get-down-everybody's-gonna-leave-their-seat to last week's tum ... More >>

Friday Night: Joy Division's Peter Hook Performs Unknown Pleasures at Mezzanine

Peter Hook at Mezzanine Friday. Pics by Kirsty.​Peter Hook and The Light perform Unknown Pleasures December 10, 2010 @ Mezzanine Better than: You'd expect a nostalgia-themed show to be. There aren't many live performers that can make even the most cynical, jaded reporter a bit misty eyed. But th ... More >>

Sunday Night: Casiotone Says Goodbye to the Painfully Alone, Plays Last-Ever Show at Bottom of the Hill

​Casiotone for the Painfully AloneDecember 5, 2010 @ Bottom of The Hill Better than: Guitartone for the obnoxiously popular. After more than a decade and a half of satisfying our needs for glitchy synth-pop and lyrical wit, Casiotone for The Painfully Alone commemorated his lucky thirteenth anni ... More >>

Craft Spells, Brewer of Magical Bedroom Pop, Talks Shamanism and the Evils of Suburbs

Craft Spells plays Milk Bar on November 11'th​ Between widely accessible studio programs and the Internet, the bedroom is becoming a semi-pro recording studio and distribution center. If you haven't noticed the positive effect this has had on prodigy songwriters yet, turn your ears to Craft Spell ... More >>

"Carlos": Olivier Assayas on his movie about the Jackal terrorist

Debaser Halloween Party: Show Preview

Manchester's Delphic: 'With Electronic Music You Can Do Anything'

​Manchester quartet Delphic is the latest outfit to be anointed "Best New Band in England" by a British music press notorious for going apeshit over bands that often aren't worthy of the praise, only to knock them down later. Fortunately, Delphic's debut LP, Acolyte -- wherein a New Order hea ... More >>

The Top 5 Creepiest Depictions of Exercise in a Music Video

First of all, let's just say "Go Giants!" We're so proud of our boys for making it to the play-offs, and are hoping and praying they can whoop Philly's ass and take us to the World Series. As usual though, all this gleeful anticipation got us thinking about music videos - sporty ones. Then we found ... More >>

Win Tickets to See Chapterhouse at Mezzanine on Saturday

Chapterhouse looking very '90s​Who knows why, but this has been the year for reunions. Throughout 2010, we've seen some of early emo's finest, the forefathers of stoner metal, alt-rock radio favorites, a handful of obscure bands, and even a few truly old-school names reconvene for 'just ... More >>

An Intro to Elliott Smith: Why We're Not Comfortable with a Greatest Hits Collection

Mmm... Garamond Pro.​ On Wednesday Kill Rock Stars and Domino announced the early November release of An Introduction to... Elliott Smith. It's been almost seven years since Smith stabbed himself in the chest, since which time his grave has hardly been quiet, what with a posthumous album, and a co ... More >>

All Shook Down Festival: Everything You Need to Know Is Right Here

​This is it. We promise. It. The last "we're having a festival and it's going to be awesome and you should come" post. The last one. For this year, anyway.We couldn't resist one final opportunity to guide you, like a friendly Friday afternoon phone tree, through the preliminaries of this Sunday's ... More >>

The 10 Worst Answers to 'What Kind of Music Do You Listen To?"

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

Free Mixtape for Free Show Thursday at Milk Bar

Skeletal System​ Ain't no tickets left for the LCD Soundsystem show on Thursday, so indie fans looking for a good time that night shouldn't need a helluva lot of carrot-waving to hit up the solid bill of up-and-comers playing for free (with RSVP) at Milk Bar. But just in case you do, show promoter ... More >>

Yeasayer pushes into new weird pop

Free Tickets to Bad Lieutenant (ex-New Order)

From Joy Division came New Order, and from New Order's ashes we have Bad Lieutenant, the latest music project from Bernard Sumner, who started the act back in 2007. Here he teams up again with former New Order bandmates, guitarist Phil Cunningham (who played in a later version of the band), and d ... More >>

What To Do? Monday's Pick: "Dressed in Black" @ Elbo Room

​Dressed in Black @ Elbo RoomThe man who calls himself DJ Death Boy [note: not his real name] hosts a regular East Bay cabaret called "Death Rock Dive Bar," notable for the facts that (1) it's held in a scrungy beer bar instead of a chrome-and-lasers nightclub, and (2) it's completely devoid of th ... More >>

The smell of fear, beer, and sausages at Gestalt

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Cold Cave

​Cold Cave @ Bottom of the Hill Ever since Ian Curtis shuffled off this mortal coil (4AD pun intended), gobs of acts have attempted to recreate his chilly post-punk aesthetic. The latest contenders, Cold Cave, go Curtis one further, aping the style of both Joy Division and that seminal band's suc ... More >>

Dank Crevasse

Claude VonStroke’s bird-themed empire takes flight

A Place to Bury Strangers

A new postpunk festival highlights a genre's revival

Miike Snow

The Juan Maclean adds a Human touch

Max Tundra and Junior Boys

Gui Boratto gives techno a tender '80s crush

New Old Romantics

New Old Romantics

Native American healer cures Testament

Immigrant Songs

The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

The Time Bandits

Oasis reminds us that our past is present