postpunk

Killing Joke Friday This British band is often described as postpunk, although its particular brand of molten doom-rock feels somewhat unprecedented.

NYT > Home Page 2010

With showtime less than a week away, Washington postpunk superheroes the Dismemberment Plan got the jump on an eagerly anticipated reunion tour with a secret show at the Galaxy Hut in Arlington on Saturday night.

The Dismemberment Plan performs secret show at Galaxy Hut Chris Richards 2011

Its scale and postpunk influences notwithstanding, more than brute force animates the work.

Lindberg Makes His Mark on the N.Y. Philharmonic David Mermelstein 2010

After releasing two albums for 4AD, Baltimore's cabaret-postpunk trio Celebration balked at resubmitting itself to the cycles of industry and set about releasing its third album, "Hello Paradise," independently, offering fans a chance — a la Radiohead — to pay what they wish to own the album.

Going Gaga for Beats and Tunes Andy Beta 2011

Bob Mould, the damaged guitar god behind the 1980s postpunk trio Hüsker Dü—the guy who wrote "59 Times the Pain" for cryin' out loud—has written a beautiful, painful, frank memoir chronicling his startlingly serpentine route to something resembling inner peace.

'See a Little Light' Ken Kurson 2011

The 52-year-old musician, born Adonis Michaelides in Nicosia, Cyprus, had co-founded the band with schoolfriends from Catford but after its first demise in 1982, briefly formed Dali's Car with vocalist Peter Murphy, previously with postpunk bank Bauhaus.

Former Japan bass player Mick Karn loses battle with cancer 2011

From San Francisco, the Central Valley, and New Orleans, Ernesto brought us ska, postpunk, and new funk.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

From San Francisco, the Central Valley, and New Orleans, Ernesto brought us ska, postpunk, and new funk.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

'Control' 2007 Sam Riley's breakout performance was as the suicidal Ian Curtis, the Rimbaud of postpunk and the guiding spirit of the revered rock band Joy Division.

'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011

The son of a screenwriter, Mr. Assayas painted, made short films and wrote for Cahiers du Cin é ma before shooting several movies about young people struggling to find equilibrium, beginning with "Disorder" ( "D é sordre," 1986), which marries the postpunk scene's explosive energy to a stylization and moral gravity that recall Robert Bresson's films.

Surveyor of Our Landscape Kristin M. Jones 2010