Category: Concert Posters
[caption id="attachment_25408" align="alignleft" width="194"] © Frank Kozik[/caption] By 1992, Seattle grunge was long past its early years and well into the public eye, thanks to MTV and everything else. I, for one, was wearing flannel shirts and torn jeans. And for all the shows I went to...
[caption id="attachment_25073" align="alignleft" width="225"] © Arno Kiss[/caption] Some gig poster artists really relish color. Arno Kiss is one of those artists. He started "scribbling band logos in my notebooks in school" in 2001, he says, and in less than 10 years he began making posters. I just...
Concert poster collecting has remained a niche market for quite some time. GoCollect is looking to shed some light on this elusive market. GoCollect recently launched its Concert Poster Collecting Guide, full of the history of the posters as well as the art of...
This poster is surely one of the most iconic pop culture images of all time. The skeleton, the roses: we all know this Grateful Dead image, but may not know that it belongs to Stanley Mouse, one of the pioneers of rock poster art. This incredibly...
[caption id="attachment_25047" align="alignleft" width="199"] © Rob Jones[/caption] If the biography of Rob Jones posted on the website of Animal Rummy offers any clues, the artist, Rob Jones, is as imaginative in the retelling of his life story—a story any fan of Lenny Bruce will admire—as he is in...
[caption id="attachment_24942" align="alignleft" width="182"] © Derek Hess[/caption] In a comment left on a recent post, I was asked to consider doing a blog on the poster art of Derek Hess. So I looked into him. They're not at all what one might expect. "Dark and intense themes,"...
The May CGC concert poster auction ended on June 4th at 9pm EST. The Nirvana poster received top bid above the other Ultrasounds posters that were on auction. The 23 posters in the auction were all designed by the legendary concert poster artist Mike King. The 1991...
A catbird sits perched atop the neck of a guitar. With warm bright colors and bubble writing, this poster might not be out of place showcasing a garden fete in middle England or a children's event. That is until you pay attention to the text...
Soundgarden might not be the first act you think of in Grunge music. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and others might've grabbed more headlines, but not for me. Perhaps it's being a fan of a particularly distinctive lead singer (this holds true for my Linkin Park fandom)....
When a musical career spans three decades, it's unlikely you will find all of their artwork. Sure, you can try. However, it might be best to define your style for Pearl Jam, PJ, when it comes to collecting their concert posters. You could choose a...
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