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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flatstock is a dangerous place to be with a credit card. This year, Flatstock 33 (presented by the American Poster Institute) featured over 100 artists with enough completely badass concert posters to ...

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 ...

Andrew Hawley deals in nostalgia. Even if it’s nostalgia that Hawley isn’t technically nostalgic for. Too young to have seen Bob Dylan’s 1965 show at the long-gone, Back Bay Theatre on Mass. Ave.,the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many brides and bridegrooms, Katie Mercurio and Jeremy Geddis had specific ideas about their wedding. No pink. Lots of lavender. Traditional Seattle food and ingredients. And rock-poster ...