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...post-punk music, but also as the co-creator of some of the most deliciously gloomy tracks ever to chart. Yet, after 25 years as guitarist and front man for the band New Order, Sumner is entitled to kick back. Emerging in 1980 from Manchester's new-wave legends Joy Division, New Order pillaged and adapted rock and pop to revolutionize electronic dance music. Today, their synth-driven sound is aped by every group of serious-looking boys in eyeliner...
...relaxed and upbeat as Sumner's current incarnation. "I'm just a happier person, and that contentment shows in the music," he explains, sipping tea in a Paris studio dressing room before taping a performance for French TV channel Canal Plus last week. But despite the unapologetic joy that propelled the album's first single, Krafty, into the U.K. Top 10, Sumner warns that New Order haven't completely abandoned their early edgy electronics and somber lyrics. "It gets boring writing about how happy you are," he acknowledges. "We are working really hard to make sure we don't become...
...wasted no time and said, ‘Coach, I want to play,’” Donato said. “To be honest with you, I was jumping for joy inside when he said that...
...There is a deeply human compulsion to gather and to celebrate; in our more or less secular society, it has insufficient outlet. At Harvard, where we are frequently trapped by our self-involvement, the problem is particularly acute. Good parties and concerts sometimes crystallize into a sort of communal joy, but the phenomenon is rare. On St. Patrick’s Day, though, the various greens brightening the Yard made it feel as though we’d overcome a little of our self-involvement. On St. Patrick’s Day, we become a high school history book writer?...
...indie snob would probably begin a description of California-based indie quartet Xiu Xiu by rattling off phrases like “constructive dissonance” or “post-punk a la Joy Division” or “they got their name from a Chinese art film.” But none of that is really important...