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Joy Division Live Box Set Arrives This September

A new boxed set of live Joy Division concert recordings, documenting the band's tragically short but impactful career, will be released in September.

Variety Music·Jun 25, 2026·via Variety Music

Joy Division Live Box Set Arrives This September

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Jun 25, 2026 6:00am PT

Massive Joy Division Boxed Set of Concert Recordings Due in September

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The career of Joy Division — the greatest band of the post-punk era of the late 1970s and early ‘80s — was tragically short, ended by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of just 23: Not even a year passed between the June 1979 release of their iconic debut album, “Unknown Pleasures,” and his death. The band left behind just two studio albums and a dozen-odd singles and other stray tracks but their influence was vast, from the entire goth movement to Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead and Interpol (who were basically a Joy Division soundalike in their early years), to multiple samples in hip-hop songs.