Apologies, if you're not into it, for the heavy R.E.M. content of late on the PoIT. Try as I might, R.E.M. is one of those bands your hu...

Nothing "new" this week as people are still enjoying the recent New Order / Joy Division materials and I don't want to overl...

Not much to say. Featured today is a previously-unknown (partial) recording of Joy Division's 28 Sept. 1979 gig at the Factory, Hulme, r...

In 2007 legendary bassist Peter Hook announced he was leaving New Order, leaving singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Steve Morris in...

It's funny, one of my all-time favorite acts is R.E.M. yet I've done nowt but post one track of theirs, in the second-ever post on ...

So I just heard the news that Jay Bennett, ex-Wilco, died in his sleep over the weekend . I had the pleasure of seeing Jay perform quite a f...

No long intro this time. Just a quick 1985 Hüsker Dü hit, perhaps this seminal, groundbreaking punkpop band's best year ever, creativel...

Today marks the 29th anniversary of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis' death. Rest in peace, Ian. "Atmosphere" October 1979, Carg...

I'm not willing to leave just yet, thinking of Tar keeps me grounded. Leave where? The Prairie State, of course. Land of Lincoln. Perha...

Now that the dust has settled a bit from this blog's freeing of the Western Works demos taken from the master reel, I thought it approp...