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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 26th, 2020, Greg Johnson is joined by special guest Morgoth to discuss culture, nostalgia, individualism, music, television, and the End of History. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Christopher Pankhurst, electronic music, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, Hannibal Lecter, hautology, interviews, Laibach, Mark Fisher, Morgoth, New Order, nostalgia, podcasts, progressive rock, television, Thomas Harris | 2 Responses

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Joy Division in Retrospect

Scott Weisswald

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On this day in 1977, a band from Salford, England called Warsaw took to the stage for the very first time in their career. They were supporting the Buzzcocks at the Electric Circus concert in Manchester.

“Warsaw” was the name chosen by a group of young men, namely Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Terry Mason, and Peter Hook, Read more …

Published: May 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, Britain in the 70s, depression, ennui, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, post-punk, Scott Weisswald, white dispossesion | 10 Responses

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Ian Curtis:
A Northern Soul

Fenek Solère

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Someone take these dreams away
That point me to another day
A duel of personalities
That stretch all true realities
That keep calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me
Where figures from the past stand tall
And mocking voices ring the halls
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Published: January 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, England, Fenek Solère, music reviews, North American New Right, originals | 22 Responses

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True Faith Exhibition

Christopher Pankhurst

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One of the exhibits in Manchester Art Gallery’s True Faith exhibition is a notebook in which Joy Division’s manager, Rob Gretton, used to write thoughts and reminders concerning the band’s schedule and ethos. Presented in a glass case, it is open at a page where Gretton muses on certain questions asked of him by the journalist Paul Morley. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, Christopher Pankhurst, New Order, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Joy Division

Christopher Pankhurst

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Joy Division left us with the most relentlessly depressing body of songs since Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. In some ways, though, this singularity of approach, this lack of light touches to add color to the palate, is responsible for making them enduringly fascinating. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, post-punk, the numinous, the occult | 15 Responses

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New Order’s Music Complete

Greg Johnson

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“What can you buy, that lifts a heavy heart up to the sky?” This question, the opening words of New Order’s Music Complete, is meant to be rhetorical. But there’s a straightforward and rather obvious answer: you can buy Music Complete itself, one of New Order’s most joyous and compelling creations.