27 years ago today, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis took his life at the age of 23. It was by all accounts a sad end to a bittersweet life, leaving a child behind and a wife already devastated by an eroding marriage. I come not to celebrate Ian Curtis the adulterer, or to glamorize his...

Levinhurst House by the Sea What Are Records, 2007 The first post-Cure project to actually produce a second record, Levinhurst—the brainchild of original Cure drummer Lol Tolhurst and his wife Cindy Levinson—has endured to follow up the electronic delights of their debut Perfect Life. Where the...

nine inch nails Year Zero Interscope, 2007 Trent Reznor is hot pissed, and this time he actually has a lot to be irate about. Year Zero is probably the first post-Katrina album, if there exists such a sub-subgenre—it’s apparent that the tragedy in New Orleans had a profound effect on the making...