Tony Wilson

The debut album from Acid Klaus (The Moonlandingz’s Adrian Flanagan) features Richard Hawley, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, actress Maxine Peake and more, and is out via Yard Act‘s ZEN FC label.

Tony Wilson, the cofounder of iconic Manchester label Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays), died in 2007 after a battle with cancer. He left a final request: that writer Paul Morley, a legend in is own right, write Wilson’s biography…

Tony Wilson, who founded Factory Records (home to Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and more), died on this day (August 10) in 2007 and in tribute, poet Mike Garry and musician Joe Duddell have recorded a single titled “St…

Looking back at 2007, it most certainly can be said electronic music is alive and thriving in America and across the globe. The meteoric rise of rave rockers Justice and the electrifying resurgence of Daft Punk have undoubtedly spread a wide net introducing millions (most importantly young aspiring musicians) to the power of the beat and the excitement, democracy of participation, and borderless history of dance music and club culture…

It’s raining here in Norway, and the first band I want to see at Oya today starts in about an hour..to go or not to go….Here’s what’s going on in NYC…

Yvette Livesey & Tony Wilson‘s In the City Festival runs from June 13-14, 2007 (this week) right here in NYC. The festival is basically two days of music industry panels followed by two nights of UK music that was to include two shows at Nokia Theatre, BUT as many know by now – possibly because they had tickets, or possibly because they were keeping up with the comments from yesterday, The Happy Mondays have cancelled both shows…