New Order's Bernard Sumner worked with Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on a few tracks from Electronic, his late-'80s/'90s side project with Johnny Marr. And now New Order and Pet Shop Boys, two giants of '80s UK synth-pop, are joining forces for a full co-headlining tour.

This week we lost an icon and an innovator. The celebrated record producer, DJ, remixer and dance music titan Andrew Weatherall died yesterday [February 17] at the age of 56. Known for his work with Primal Scream, the ‘Screamadelica’ producer – who once reviewed the band for NME under his pen-name Audrey Witherspoon in 1989...

DreamyThurston Moore has shared a cover of a New Order song, which serves as the B-side for his forthcoming trio of singles. The Sonic Youth co-founder, who releases his new album ‘Spirit Counsel’ next Saturday (September 21), is set to drop a trio of 7-inch singles that all feature the special New Order cover, ‘Le...

You need these records in your collection...In this fast-paced musical landscape, where it’s so easy to simply put a playlist on shuffle, nothing compares to putting a record on, sitting back and enjoying all it has to offer in full (or at least until you have get up again to flip it over). Every week, NME will round up the best [&...

"People understand it"Stephen Morris and Ian Curtis in Joy DivisionJoy Division and New Order drummer Stephen Morris has discussed the progress in the conversation around mental health in the decades following the death of Ian Curtis. Curtis took his own life in 1980, after battling depression and epilepsy in his final years. Now, in a new inter...