If "Bizarre Love Triangle" Was About Haterade

Ex-Danity Kane lady Aubrey O'Day sampled the New Order classic, but changed the refrain to "Every time they see us ballin'/ They get down on their knees and hate." Give her all the Pulitzers please. MTV has a sample.... CONTINUE READING IF "BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE" WAS ABOUT HATERADE»

Posted on August 24, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Aubrey O'Day | New Order

New Bad Lieutenant - "Sink Or Swim"

Bad Lieutentant's basically late-period New Order minus Peter Hook and plus ex-Marion guitarist Jake Evans. Their debut Never Cry Another Tear's out in October. Alex James and Stephen Morris play on it. Listen to the shimmery first single "Sink Or... CONTINUE READING NEW BAD LIEUTENANT - "SINK OR SWIM"»

Posted on August 18, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Bad Lieutenant | New Order

New Order Form New Band Without Peter Hook

Last fall Peter Hook called late-period New Order an "empty shell." The guys have since filled up said shell by adding Blur bassist Alex James, labeling themselves Bad Lieutenant, and recording an album due for release in October. Details at... CONTINUE READING NEW ORDER FORM NEW BAND WITHOUT PETER HOOK»

Posted on June 17, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Bad Lieutenant | New Order

Iron & Wine Perform A New Song (And A New Order Song) For Jimmy Fallon

Iron & Wine's Around The Well collection came out yesterday, but instead of playing something from it on Fallon, Sam Beam, his sister Sarah, and pianist did a new track, "Godless Brother In Love." It has the same sort of... CONTINUE READING IRON & WINE PERFORM A NEW SONG (AND A NEW ORDER SONG) FOR JIMMY FALLON»

Posted on May 20, 2009 in MP3, Video (11 comments)
Tags: Iron & Wine | Jimmy Fallon | New Order | Pixies | The Drums

The 'Gum Drop LXIII: Hear New Wrens, Win New Order Reissues

In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, Frightened Rabbit, and Dan Deacon,... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LXIII: HEAR NEW WRENS, WIN NEW ORDER REISSUES»

Posted on November 12, 2008 in Giveaway, MP3 (1 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | New Order | The Wrens | Vampire Weekend

Hot Chip Feels So Unnatural: Peter Gabriel And Joy Division, Too

Peter Gabriel's plan to cover Vampire Weekend just got a little more bloggable. According to NME, the Hot Chip crew revealed a busy release schedule: helping out with Gabriel's take on "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," alongside completing a steel-pan based... CONTINUE READING HOT CHIP FEELS SO UNNATURAL: PETER GABRIEL AND JOY DIVISION, TOO»

Laura Cantrell Covers New Order

It's a common tale: Girl moves to the city to go study law at Columbia, instead becomes an acclaimed country-folk artist, has a child, takes three years off, comes out of hiaturs by recording a New Order tune. OK, not... CONTINUE READING LAURA CANTRELL COVERS NEW ORDER»

Posted on March 25, 2008 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Laura Cantrell | New Order

Kevin Drew Covers New Order

November's been a good month for New Order covers. Earlier this month of course we geeked to Thom & Co.'s "Ceremony" while warming ourselves in the glow of Radiohead's laptop-side chat. The Hills reconnected us with Frente!'s "Bizarre Love Triangle"... CONTINUE READING KEVIN DREW COVERS NEW ORDER»

Posted on November 29, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Kevin Drew | New Order

Radiohead.tv

Oh, boy. So in the last hour or so (read: the time since we've been having backend tech issues today), Radiohead.tv fired up with some seriously awesome bits. Like Thom spinning M.I.A.. And then Thom spinning !!!'s "Heart Of Hearts,"... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD.TV»

New Freebass - "I Envy Us"

So looks like Freebass, the bass-y trio of New Order four-stringer Peter Hook, the Smith's low-end man Andy Rourke, and ex-Stone Roses/current-Primal Scream thunder-sticker Gary "Mani" Mounfield are slapping 'n' picking their way closer to a debut. Hook recently told... CONTINUE READING NEW FREEBASS - "I ENVY US"»

New Disorder

Been following the drama? News had flung far and wide about the demise of new wave stalwarts New Order when Peter Hook took to the press to say the fat lady had grabbed her synth and sung -- until Bernard... CONTINUE READING NEW DISORDER»

Posted on July 30, 2007 in Where's The Beef? (8 comments)
Tags: New Order