As if Trent Reznor doesn’t pop up in the news enough these days thanks to his weekend wedding and surprising Twitter resurrection, the newly-retired Nine Inch Nails frontman is teaming up with stars like Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and R.E.M. to take on a music industry monster that might be worse than the RIAA: The United States Military.
Arts Beat and AP both report that the music stars are joining up with the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo based on, among other things, information that prisoners at the camp had been bombarded with ear-pounding music and ad jingles as a form of preparation for interrogation.
We’re not sure whether the bands are protesting on pacifistic moral grounds, on the basis of lost royalties, or out of offense at their music being deemed torturous by the government.
We didn’t give the new Pearl Jam album, Backspacer, a great review, but at least we didn’t call it torture.
Via Arts Beat: Thomas Blanton, the executive director of the archive, told The A.P., “At Guantánamo, the U.S. government turned a jukebox into an instrument of torture.”
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