Rock Art Set to Rock the Dublin Library
On Sunday June 25, from 2 to 3 PM, TRPS board members Marilyn Lucas and Pete Neumiller will speak at the Bennett Room of the Dublin Public Library to share stories about the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the music scene in the East Bay. This free event will feature plenty posters from […]
Psychedelic San Francisco In Salem
In recent weeks, we’ve looked at two exhibitions mounted in San Francisco—at the de Young Museum and California Historical Society—to mark the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Now, a new show in Salem, Oregon, offers those of us who love rock posters a reason to head north. Titled “Behind the Beyond: Psychedelic Posters […]
A Weekend of Rock Art on the Left Coast
This weekend, June 2, 3, and 4, is going to be a pretty good one for rock-poster fans. First up is a show by Emek on June 2, opening from 6-8 p.m., at the Jupiter Gallery in Portland. Look for screenprinted gig posters for Radiohead, Pearl Jam, and the Foo Fighters, a number of artist […]
Inside the Most Important Gallery at the de Young’s “Summer of Love Experience”
If “On the Road to the Summer of Love” at the California Historical Society is like happening upon Jimi Hendrix playing from the back of the Jefferson Airplane’s flatbed truck in the Panhandle in 1967, then…
On the Road to the Summer of Love
Right now, everybody’s talking about the Summer of Love, a phrase that first appeared in a 1967 press release. The San Francisco Travel Association is using the slogan to help fill hotel rooms, online merchants are using it to sell everything from refrigerator magnets to T-shirts, and the de Young Museum has embraced these three […]
Chris Cornell, RIP
Chris Cornell, the powerful, dynamic singer whose band Soundgarden was one of the architects of grunge music, has died at 52. Mr. Cornell died Wednesday night in Detroit, said his representative, Brian Bumbery, in a statement that called the death “sudden and unexpected” and that said the singer’s family would be “working closely with the […]
