A few months ago we let you know that we were going to start digitizing Discorder, the music magazine published by UBC’s community radio station CiTR.
Well, we’ve just about completed digitizing every issue from the 1980s (and might well be finished by the time you read this), so we figured now might be a good time to show you some of our favourite covers from that decade! Check them out.
(January, 1984.)
(May, 1984.)
(December, 1985.)
(May, 1986.)
(August, 1986.)
(October, 1987.)
(May, 1988.)
(January, 1989.)
We’re not sure when we’ll have this project finished and online, but it should be by the end of the year! To see what more recent issues of Discorder look like you can take a look on Issuu.
This is great! Maybe I’ll be able to find that first issue that I picked up way back when. Is there a way to look at these issues from the 80s?
Unfortunately none of them have been put online yet. We’re hoping to make them available late this year or early next year. We’ll make sure to have an announcement here when they are available!
In the meantime you can take a look at this article about the digitiztion process in Discorder: http://www.discorder.ca/discorder-magazine/index.php/2014/09/04/digitizing-discorder-preserving-the-history-of-vancouvers-music-and-arts-scene/231