New Order has - for over 20 years - been amongst my most favorite groups ever. For 15 or so years they made music that served as the soundtr...

One of the most popular features on the blog so far was my original post about those mad Mancunians New Fast Automatic Daffodils. Drawing c...

I just can't help it. The alluring melodies of Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe have been refusing to leave my ears of late. I go through these pe...

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...