Designer Viktor Hertz has created Pictogram Pop Posters, a series of minimalist prints that visualize songs and lyrics from some of pop’s most storied acts.
via Pop Pictogram Posters | Pop Music’s Biggest Moments, Illustrated In Pictograms | Co.Design.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Pixies’ second album, “Surfer Rosa,” a seminal LP that has gone down in Rolling Stone history as one of the 500 greatest records of all time. Â “Surfer Rosa” might be my most listen to album/cassette tape/CD/mp3 in my life. Â I don’t know why today isn’t a national holiday.
via Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’: The Band’s Second Album Turns 25 Years Old.
The Acoustic Guitar Project, created in 2012, stemmed from Adams’s New Years resolution to work on an artistic project. Not a musician himself, Adams wanted to give others the ability to ‘create something raw.’ He started with his musician friend, giving them a guitar, handheld recorder, and almost no rules.  Limits foster creativity – This is an innovative play it forward project.
via Acoustic Guitar Project Forces Musicians To Play Without Technology – PSFK.
If humans were able to hear light and parse the poetry of the spectrum, then perhaps there would be no need for Brian Eno, who seems to do it effortlessly.
According to a report by TODAY, the United States Postal Service plans to issue a Johnny Cash stamp later this year as part of its new “Music Icons” series.
