Best New Wave Flashback Concert of the Week

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British band New Order plays Williamsburg Park this Wednesday. Photo: Glenn A Baker / Redferns

British band New Order plays Williamsburg Park this Wednesday. Photo: Glenn A Baker/Redferns

British new wave band New Order has spent much of the past 23 years breaking up and making up, but the group is on-again this summer with a North American tour that stops at Williamsburg Park on Wednesday, July 24. Comprised of the remaining members of iconic post-punk band Joy Division, following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis, New Order recorded some of the catchiest synth-based dance classics of the 1980s, including Blue Monday and Shellshock, and its latest album, this year’s Lost Sirens, retains some of that frenetic, dance-floor pace while leaning more heavily on guitar riffs and chord progressions. Tickets are $62, and if you’re looking for a pre-concert flick, bone up on some New Order history and watch Control, an exquisite biopic about Curtis, based on the biography Touching from a Distance, by his wife, Deborah. For more concerts this week, check out our picks here.

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