From Beethoven to Camper Van Beethoven, as long as there have been concerts there have been concert posters. Plastered all around town on bulletin boards, telephone poles, and record shop windows, the ...
Few types of music memorabilia have enjoyed a prolonged renaissance quite like concert posters. Once relegated to light poles and store shop fronts, these impressive pieces of art have come to be ...
In the not-so-distant past, the concert poster — or flyer, or handbill — was one of the only ways to find out what musical acts were coming to town. The papers that were saved bring music history ...
A piece of music memorabilia from “The Day the Music Died”—when a deadly plane crash killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and, J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson—has made auction ...
For music lovers, the appeal of a great concert poster requires little-to-no explanation. That said, whether you count yourself among the most avid poster collectors or just a casual admirer, your ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the coronavirus pandemic led to event shutdowns and unprecedented challenges for local music venues, some members of Cleveland’s music community stepped up to help. That ...
Alfredo Villar is a local historian and curator of Chicha music and poster art in Lima. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Under cover of darkness, poster artist Monky ...
When the Grateful Dead played its first live show Dec. 4, 1965, the band wasn’t exactly a newcomer to the music scene. The group, including Jerry Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir, had been ...
Tour posters are an often-overlooked art form. They convey a message about the tour and the band and can even become the perfect addition to your home decor. Without a doubt, though, one of the most ...
As Mitch Putnam explains in the introduction to the new book focused on concert posters, OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art, he started his website about limited-edition art back in 2007 because no one ...
Baz Luhrmann directed the documentary about Elvis Presley's Las Vegas residency following his 1968 comeback special. Luhrmann ...
Bill Graham Archives sued book publishers that used images of concert posters in a Grateful Dead biographical book for copyright infringement. The U.S. District Court in New York granted the… By ...