We mark the occasion by featuring ten of our favorite Joy Division cover songs by artists who all owe some musical debt to that influential band. RIP Ian Curtis–we wish you were still here.It’s for good reason that Joy Division holds such influence over generations of mopey post-punkers–they were a stellar band. Not as romantic as Echo and the Bunnymen, or as agitated as Gang of Four, Joy Division’s music was nonetheless plenty dramatic have you seen lead singer Ian Curtis dance?, stimulating, and sometimes morbid–introspective, but with driving rhythms.Thirty years ago yesterday May 18, 1980, at age 23, Curtis committed suicide due to health, professional, and romantic troubles, ending the promising career of one band, and inadvertently bringing forth another—New Order.

Coming off a week spent in Coronary Care after Lemurs and my father had an emergency triple bypass hes fine, coming home tomorrow, how the hell did they miss that hole? Our mother had an incident earlier this year when they had to rule out TIA turns out hers was unresolved migraines, but when you have stroke andor cardiac symptoms, they image the shit out of all your arteries, brain and heart. How did he get discharged from an internationally-recognized neurological institute without a cardiac catherization using dye to look for holes? This situation is hereditary and is usually the first thing a neuro looks for in a suspected stroke.wait a minute, he has diabetes so he works with the american diabetes association? that doesnt make him any more of a great humanitarian than michael j. i have parkinsons so now im workin my shaky ass off to help get it cured fox. if BM had diabetes but was out there raising dough for the homeless or trying to cure aids, then youd have something.And because its impossible to care about all things at once, lets just stop feeling anything at all, right? I fucking hate that mindset How about you let me decide what provokes me saying Aw, thats too bad, okay?!.

But the family attended Thursday nights gala together, and the occasion of Earnhardts induction had marked a somewhat coming-out-party for his youngest daughter, Taylor. Once frequently spotted alongside her father at the race track, shed been largely out of the public eye since her fathers death.The 21-year-old represented the family at several events this weekend, and was poised on stage during the ceremony.Everyone always tells us that we all look a little bit like Dad, she said I think we all act like him, too Were determined, driven, stubborn as a fence post.

Please dont break up, yelled an audience member at Voxtrots final Chicago appearance at Lincoln Hall Friday night. Last month, Austin quintet Voxtrot announced they were disbanding after one final tour called Goodbye Cruel World Spanning only five years, one self-titled full-length and a slew of EPs and singles, Voxtrot generated a short but sweet discography.They opened with the melodic Introduction from their 2007 full-length and followed it with a pair of songs from the Mothers, Sisters, Daughters and Wives EP, including the title track and Rise Up in the Dirt. The band kept up a jittery pace and got the crowd dancing. Someone in the audience asked chatty frontman Ramesh Srivastava to tell them a story, so he talked about how the Icelandic volcano almost thwarted his travels to Chicago. Instead, he got drunk on the plane with a 75-year-old woman.Everything ends, he said to the crowd. All bands should break up. Do you think we should still be doing this when were 50 pounds heavier? What if Lost went on one more season? His lecture didnt exactly assuage them they booed in response. The band continued with Raised by Wolves from their first proper EP of the same name, as well as Steven, dedicated to all of the Stevens in the audience.At times, the band referred to themselves in the past tense and Srivastava commented, When its the end, it doesnt matter Despite his nonchalance, he gave it his all on last years single Berlin, Without Return and the powerhouse of Wrecking Force Srivastava thanked the fans for coming out, asked if anyone knew of an after party and stated he thought it was weird they knew all the words to the songs The crowd kept shouting out requests, but Voxtrot ignored them and finished their set on breakout hit The Start of Something New Near the end of the song, Srivastava jumped into the audience and was immediately swarmed by revelers, so he hopped back on stage and flopped around for the duration of the song.

TULSA, OK—After almost fourty years of regular rotation on America’s classic rock radio stations, Neil Young’s tribute to the sweet taste of youth, Sugar Mountain,” is being banned, due to its mentioning of sugar,” a sweetener now associated with child obesity, as well as diabetes. The ban was the brainstorm of the Center for »Please dont break up, yelled an audience member at Voxtrots final Chicago appearance at Lincoln Hall Friday night. Last month, Austin quintet Voxtrot announced they were disbanding after one final tour called Goodbye Cruel World Spanning only five years, one self-titled full-length and a slew of EPs and singles, Voxtrot generated a short but sweet discography.They opened with the melodic Introduction from their 2007 full-length and followed it with a pair of songs from the Mothers, Sisters, Daughters and Wives EP, including the title track and Rise Up in the Dirt The band kept up a jittery pace and got the crowd dancing Someone in the audience asked chatty frontman Ramesh Srivastava to tell them a story, so he talked about how the Icelandic volcano almost thwarted his travels to Chicago Instead, he got drunk on the plane with a 75-year-old woman.