Broken Social Scene's half-speed, richly atmospheric Kevin Drew-fronted and piano-sprinkled take on "Love Will Tear Us Apart" shows up in that saccharine-seeming tear-jerking adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. BSS make a cameo in the film as a wedding band offering up the couple the...

Two new Blue Plaques are to be unveiled in Rochdale, celebrating the town's musical heritage.

It's Friday once more, and today (June 19), to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Joy Division's classic album 'Unknown Pleasures', we're thinking up bands as Joy Division-related things to waste time until the pubs open.

Aloha drummer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Cale Parks has successfully stepped out on his own for a couple of full-lengths over the past few years, and this remix of Ra Ra Riot's "Dying Is Fine" comes in advance of his new EP of original tunes, To Swift Mars. The RRR reworking is a stand-alone project, and a stand-up one, too: Cale isn't inter...

JG Ballard, the cult science fiction writer who inspired bands including Klaxons and Joy Division, has died aged 78 today (April 19).