Bad Lieutenant's debut with two bonus tracks for pre-order. Streaming video and single

The forthcoming debut album by Bad Lieutenant (the new band founded by former New Order leader Bernard Sumner), Never Cry Another Tear (released on the band's own Triple Echo label), is available for pre-order on Townsend Records in a variety of editions.
The limited edition digipack features two bonus tracks and when you order it you can immediately download Dynamo, the wonderful B side to the single Sink Or Swim, which is already available on iTunes in England.
Here we have the streaming video, single and B side:

From Joy Division to New Order to Bad Lieutenant

Once again the remaining members of this band are carrying on with another name.
Just like when Ian Curtis killed himself Joy Division became New Order, now that Peter Hook has left New Order they're becoming Bad Lieutenant.


Here you can see an acoustic performance of one of their songs, the wonderful Sink Or Swim.
Bernard Sumner (now aged 53) and Steve Morris were against the split of New Order, but couldn't carry on with that name without founding member Peter Hook. They're keeping Phil Cunningham, who replaced Gillian Gilbert in New Order when she left for family commitments at the start of this decade.
Still, more like Electronic than New Order, they're bringing some guests. Alex James from Blur is playing bass and Jake Evans from Rambo And Leroy is an additional guitarist, as in the video above.
There will be live dates in the summer and an album is expected for release in October.
Check NewOrderOnline.com.
It's funny to note that while Peter Hook is working on Freebass, a supergroup with two other legendary bassists, Andy Rourke from The Smiths and Mani from The Stone Roses and Primal Scream, Bad Lieutenant will often feature three guitarists.
Here's some interesting news articles:
New Order members form new band – without Peter Hook (NME.com)
New Order and Blur members announce supergroup (The Guardian)
Joy Division stars form new band (BBC)
BERNARD SUMNER SEETHING WITH HOOK (ContactMusic.com)

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New album by Section 25 coming on June 16th!

The new album by legendary former Factory band Section 25 will be released on June 16th on LTM.
Titled Nature + Degree, it features the vocals of Beth Cassidy, which are as beautiful as her late mother Jennifer, who was also a member of the band.
While the excellent previous album Part Primitiv recalled the best of their post punk days, Nature + Degree seems to be more oriented to their electro period, but seems very well promising as well.
On this page on their official site you can hear a sample of Remembrance, taken from the forthcoming album, and preview the tracklist.
The artwork looks really beautiful as well, very Factory style.

Geocities closes, please move your site

Surrounded by unbelievable silence and apathy, Geocities is being closed by Yahoo!
Geocities is not accepting new accounts anymore.
The true problem seems to be the sites will be deleted along with the accounts, throwing in a black hole a lot of obsolete but precious sites from the past.
Actually Geocities (which started as an indipindent company and was later purchased by Yahoo) was becoming obsolete and the most of the webmasters had already abandoned it, but until the first half of this decade it was the most popular free service to publish a site, especially in the pre-blog Web 1.0 age.
Many sites which have not been updated, but include knowledge you wouldn't like to completely disappear from the web, are still on Geocities. I'm mostly thinking to fan sites of underground bands, sometimes they are the only sites at all dedicated to some bands.
Sure, you can move your existing site, but the webmasters who haven't updated their sites in the last 5 years won't probably even care to move them to another host. If you're one of them, plase take some time to move your site, you might not care anymore about it, but someone else might do.
Some of you will remember that all my sites started on Geocities, the first being A New Order Fan, nine years ago, which is amazingly still getting visits. It gradually evolved into this blog, and I'm slowly importing older posts backwards (I'm doing the 2005 posts now) and will eventually get to the old site, which is still on my hard disk anyway.
The Gabrielles Wish official site also started on Geocities.
So it's just sad for me to see such an important place for me to disappear.

Apparently, Bravenet is still carrying on its free host service, which is preferred from webmasters uploading sites completely made by themselves through coding or computer software.
Also, many free services emerged giving you the ability to create and host a site with modern online publishing tools, such as Google Sites, Weebly and Jimdo. You can't completely customize the sites and you can't import traditional HTML pages (though you can insert HTML as a page element), but there are many layout options.
Finally, Blogger and Wordpress have evolved so much you can almost organize a blog as a site, with more archiving power than a traditional site.
When social networks were yet to emerge in the pre-MySpace age, pages on Geocities were also the most popular tool for people to do a personal page about their interests, thanks to a page wizard and an online visual editor, today both looking really obsolete when compared to what people is doing on Facebook and MySpace, though on the other side people can also be content with posting short messages on an even simpler service like Twitter.