
Un 18 de abril, pero de hace 20 años, Martin "Zero" Hannett productor y co-fundador del mítico sello Factory Records falleció a los 42 años. Un ataque al corazón le quitó la vida al legendario productor responsable de crear el sonido tan especial y profundo que impregnó las grabaciones de Joy Division, algunas cosas de OMD, New Order e inclusive U2 en sus años juveniles o el primer sencillo de The Stone Roses. Para recordarlo, les presentamos un video de Hannett en el que seguramente era su lugar favorito: el estudio de grabación, en una [...]
30 years ago today, Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis committed suicide by hanging himself in his home, just prior to the their first US tour. I will not go into any of the stories or theories that may or may not have happened to Curtis in his short life; there are already far too many authoritative books and documentaries on the subject - all I will do is tell you is that Joy Division are one

When anyone looks through the Pitchfork 500 list , they are bound to go "Yeah, but what about xxx?", where xxx = the name of favourite band, song, or horrible personal favourite. Of course, choosing 500 songs and calling them the "best 500 songs" is bound to cause trouble. Of course, people are going to disagree. There's some personal favourites of mine missing from the list, but I'm not going to start complaining that The Kingsbury Manx's "Piss Diaries" is missing, because it's quite obscure, and I'm not really sure that it's everyone's cup of [...]

Glenn Branca – Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet) Joy Division – Atmosphere The Fall – Totally Wired A veteran of New York No Wave band Theoretical Girls, Glenn Branca wanted to merge classical music with rock. Rather than taking the ELO route and laying strings over Beethoven-inspired prog rock, he took ten guitarists, including Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore (who'd go on to form Sonic Youth) plus assorted other musicians, and formed a kind of orchestra. "Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar" was [...]

The Clash – The Magnificent Seven Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice Klein + MBO – Dirty Talk ESG – Moody This part of the Pitchfork 500 concentrates on New York bands, or bands who'd come to New York to record. And the sound of New York in 1980/81 was hip-hop and disco. I'll start off by saying that "The Magnificent Seven" by The Clash still doesn't change my mind about them. I really don't see how them taking [...]

Gracias por sintnizar Galaxy 94.3 fm Los Mochis radio ... noche de miércoles de catálogo y clásicos de tres décadas , a partir de las 8:15 p.m. como ya es tradición... New Order - Dreams never end .mp3 .

Despite being immortalized by Andy "Gollum" Serkis in 24 Hour Party People as a fat crazy bastard, Martin Hannett remains the most revered producer of the punk/ post-punk era. Thirty years after his prime (and roughly 15 years after his death), the sonic architecture of his work with Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, and ESG remain obvious touchpoints for myriad bands of the 00's. Two compilations of his knob twiddling ( Martin '91, And Here is the Young Man '98) have been issued and quickly fallen out of print. Seeking [...]