Thursday, April 22, 2021
One of the most iconic album sleeve designs of all time has been given a fresh twist to draw attention to the climate change emergency.
The original design of radio waves which adorned Joy Division s Unknown Pleasures is a hugely popular t-shirt amongst music fans, and now charity organisation Music Declares Emergency has asked its designer, Peter Saville, to modify it for a T-shirt for their No Music On A Dead Planet campaign.
The new design takes inspiration from the Salford band’s 1979 record cover, but flattens the waveform to powerfully represent, the eternal silence of a dead planet .
Punk rock’s past, present and future with Mr. Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould.
Words: Sam Coare
Black and white portrait: Shelly Mosman
The Church of Guitar, Bass & Drums is a religion to which Bob Mould subscribes. It is a configuration that has defined, and bookended, his musical life: first in Hüsker Dü and Sugar, latterly under the banner of his prolific ‘solo’ output. “A rock three-piece is similar to being in a free-form jazz band,” he told us in 2019. “It’s an art form.”
Bob was speaking those words ahead of the release of his superb Sunshine Rock album in 2019. That album – following 2012’s Silver Age, 2014’s Beauty & Ruin and 2016’s Patch the Sky – was his fourth since minting his latest ‘trio’, alongside drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy. It is this period, which found Bob re-embracing the sound that defined him decades before, that forms the spine of the third of three exhaustive boxsets charting his entire musica
There was always a hiss of audiophiles perusing What Hi-Fi? magazine in Easonâs. Standing around and blocking your way. They were in silent ecstasy over tech specs, tape bias and Dolby details. You had to elbow through them to get to the rough piles of music papers. These were flung down at lower-shelf foot level, often bearing a muddy boot print.
I blamed the delirious audiophiles whose sonic lust made them surge forward and trample the pop rags. Glaring at these non-purchasing leeches, I took my place among them to thumb through the mediocre Melody Maker and the witless Sounds. Having sampled such wares, I always bought the NME.
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As a general rule, the CIA tries to stay out of the news. But its new website didn’t arrive on the scene very quietly.
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The site and its corresponding new logo seemed more reminiscent of ’70s Joy Division than a staid government agency, a fact that critics on Twitter were quick to point out. But despite its synth pop feel, some design experts said the new site seemed to accomplish its mission: to aid the agency in recruiting.
[Image: CIA.gov]The updated site and logo are just the latest in a renewed recruitment effort by the CIA under director Gina Haspel. Over the past few years, the agency has been upping its outreach to millennials and minority communities, including joining Instagram and launching its first TV recruitment ad on Hulu last summer.