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Alt-80’s and My Atonal Youth

Josh Rose
9 min readAug 27, 2023

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Peter Saville’s “pulsar graphic” used on Joy Division’s album, “Unknown Pleasures.”

I just finished watching the documentary, “Mayor Of The Sunset Strip,” (2003) about Rodney Bingenheimer, AKA Rodney on the Rock, if you listened to KROQ in the 80’s. Rodney was, really, the linchpin of that time period’s alternative music scene and broke just about every band you know from then. Unfortunately, but maybe importantly, the film…

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Josh Rose

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