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  New Order's Delayed 'Lost Sirens' Collection Due Out in November

  October 9, 2012 – New Order played their first U.S. show in seven years on Friday night, albeit without founding bassist Peter Hook. …
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  New Order Play First U.S. Show in Seven Years: Bring the Hits, Not Peter Hook

  October 8, 2012 – The reunited New Order's gig at the Fox Theater on Friday was their first U.S. show in seven years — but Oakland was already ready to party. After two unbelievable and unlikely champagne-soaked locker room celebrations courtesy of the Athletics earlier in the week, the people in the East Bay were eager to celebrate themselves. Outside the Fox, thousands of revelers congregated along a shutdown stretch of Telegraph Ave. …
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  The 10 Best Reissues of September: Billy Gibbons, Factory Records, and the Most Important Cassette of the CD Era

  October 5, 2012 – REISSUE OF THE MONTH 1. Various Artists Fac. Dance 02: Factory Records 12" Mixes & Rarities 1980-1987 StrutPicking up where last year's Fac Dance left off, this sequel cuts even deeper into the dusk-disco heart of the Factory Records bands that never got to be the Happy Mondays. The early stuff here plays like some Zé catalog all-stars choking on a thick Manchester fog and bloodying their knuckles on greasy industrial gears. …
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  New Order Will Return to the States, But Where's the Hook?

  July 23, 2012 – For stateside New Order fans, Monday just got a little less blue. The pioneering English synth-pop/post-punk outfit has announced its first set of North American dates since playing New York's Hammerstein Ballroom in 2005. …
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  Fan's Digital R.E.M. Archive Nixed by Universal Music

  June 7, 2012 – Yesterday was a disappointing day for audiophiles, especially those familiar with the work of one particular team of online archivists. Known until now as Analog Loyalist, Drew Crumbaugh, one of three engineer bloggers behind the immaculate restorations of the Smiths' Rough Trade singles discography and Joy Division/New Order's Factory Records releases, has been preemptively thwarted in his efforts to do the same with R.E.M.'s I.R.S. …
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  SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

  May 3, 2012 – To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. …
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  Welcome to SPIN's First Ever Electronic Dance Music Blog

  February 24, 2012 – Welcome to CONTROL VOLTAGE, SPIN's new blog dedicated to electronic music (for dancing and otherwise). Hopefully, you will have figured out the subject from the blog's title, which is a reference to CV/Gate, an old-school method for controlling analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Until MIDI came along in the 1980s, CV/Gate was the primary way for hardware devices to "talk" to each other. …
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  Watch Clips From (Most of) New Order's First Show in Five Years

  October 18, 2011 – The long-running feud between the members of two pioneering British bands — post-punk icons Joy Divisions and synth-pop offshoot New Order — began a new chapter Monday night as the latter played their first show in five years. The Brussels, Belgium, gig was the first of two scheduled European charity shows and notably went off without original bassist Peter Hook. …
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  Moby, New Order's Peter Hook Play Joy Division

  September 16, 2011 – An ongoing feud between co-founding members of two hugely influential British bands-- Joy Division and New Order-- has taken a new turn. Peter Hook, who played bass in both groups, held a Joy Division tribute show this week in Los Angeles, just days after New Order said they would play a set of concerts without him. …
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  Hear Previously Unreleased New Order Song

  May 18, 2011 – This June, Rhino Records UK will release Total, the first hits compilation to combine both the music of Joy Division and its offshoot band New Order. …
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